Dr. Alex Ketchum (she/her)

Dr. Alex Ketchum (she/her)

@aketchum22.bsky.social

PhD in History, professor of Feminist + Social Justice Studies; food, environmental, gender, +tech history, queer, founder of Disrupting Disruptions https://www.alexketchum.ca/ https://linktr.ee/aketchum

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maura quint
@mauraquint.bsky.social

Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.

Dr. Alex Ketchum (she/her)
@aketchum22.bsky.social

It's out in mid-October!!! and you can pre-order it now / ask your local bookstore or library to order it microcosmpublishing.com/catalog/zine... @microcosm.bsky.social @mcgillarts.bsky.social

microcosmpublishing.comHow to Organize a Book Tour: Promote Your New Publication | Microcosm PublishingLearn how to promote your writing beyond your computer screen with this expert guide to book tours and publicity from Dr. Alex D. Ketchum, author of How to...
Dr. Alex Ketchum (she/her)
@aketchum22.bsky.social

I similarly feel like every time I hold a book, I am holding part of someone's life force

Tobias Wilson-Bates@phdhurtbrain.bsky.social

Sometimes in a library I imagine each book as years of an author’s life such that you are standing amidst uncounted hours of effort and concentration like some oasis of meaningful time.

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Oliver
@oliver48.bsky.social

"From July 1, 2026, households in New South Wales, South Australia, and southeastern Queensland can access at least three hours of free electricity each day through a new initiative called the Solar Sharer Offer" via No One Cares

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Tobias Wilson-Bates
@phdhurtbrain.bsky.social

The point of having students do peer review is not to fix the essay, it’s to give the students a concrete experience of delivering their ideas to an audience and being in community caring about their compositional choices.

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Katie Mack
@astrokatie.com

It’s truly astonishing to see how comprehensively the US government is tearing down every part of the system that has made it up until now a world-leading power in science, research, and technological development. The entire world will suffer from this wanton destruction.

Dan Vergano@danvergano.bsky.social

White House proposes new rules giving political appointees final approval of research grants These proposed Office of Management and Budget regulations would render the federal research grant review process opaque www.scientificamerican.com/article/whit...

scientificamerican.comWhite House proposes new rules giving political appointees final say on research grantsThese proposed Office of Management and Budget regulations would render the federal research grant review process opaque

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Acyn
@acyn.bsky.social

AOC: This is what drinking water in Georgia looks like after Meta began data center construction in the community.

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Mar Hicks
@histoftech.bsky.social

Chinese researchers have created a bamboo-based plastic as strong as petroleum-based plastics, which can fully biodegrade in soil in just 2 months phys.org/news/2025-10...

phys.orgBamboo-based plastic can be made to biodegrade quickly, but still holds up in tough conditionsA new method to produce strong, biodegradable plastic from bamboo is reported in Nature Communications this week. The bioplastic resembles oil-based plastics in strength, shapability, and thermal stab...

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Willow
@rockshrimp.bsky.social

Every time I see someone talk about Claude I think about how they switched from female to male names as soon as they wanted the robots to seem like experts vs personal assistants.

Dr. Alex Ketchum (she/her)
@aketchum22.bsky.social

Great article by @rcmacleod.bsky.social aftermath.site/dykes-to-wat... I've written about @alisonbechdel.bsky.social 's Dykes to Watch Out for Food in my book Ingredients for Revolution @concordiapress.bsky.social press.library.concordia.ca/projects/ing...

aftermath.siteLet's Cook The Joke Vegetarian Food From Alison Bechdel's Dykes To Watch Out ForThe famous lesbian comic strip satirizes politically-conscious eating with dishes that were never meant to exist--until now
Dr. Alex Ketchum (she/her)
@aketchum22.bsky.social

www.musee-mccord-stewart.ca/en/activitie... This Wednesday at 6 PM at the @museemccordstewart.bsky.social ! 10 bucks but it includes entrance to all of the museum's exhibitions (and museum entrance is normally 22 CAD)

musee-mccord-stewart.caExploring Queer Food and the Montreal Restaurant SceneExplore Queer Food and the Montreal Restaurant Scene with Alex Ketchum, Al Dervisevic and Lauren McGowan, followed a self-guided tour of the exhibition On the Menu – Montreal: A Restaurant Story.
Dr. Alex Ketchum (she/her)
@aketchum22.bsky.social

this review also cites Ingredients for Revolution @concordiapress.bsky.social @mcgillarts.bsky.social

Dr. Alex Ketchum (she/her)@aketchum22.bsky.social

thanks for the rave review @emilycontois.bsky.social for @gastronomica.bsky.social Queers at the Table @arsenalpulp.bsky.social @mcgillarts.bsky.social online.ucpress.edu/gastronomica...

online.ucpress.eduReview: Queers at the Table: An Illustrated Guide to Queer Food (with Recipes), edited by Alex D. Ketchum and Megan J. Elias“In a food-media box packed with chef bros and kitchen bad boys, the very idea of queer food was ludicrous,” wrote John Birdsall to characterize 2013, the year he published in Lucky Peach his James Be...
Dr. Alex Ketchum (she/her)
@aketchum22.bsky.social

thanks for the rave review @emilycontois.bsky.social for @gastronomica.bsky.social Queers at the Table @arsenalpulp.bsky.social @mcgillarts.bsky.social online.ucpress.edu/gastronomica...

online.ucpress.eduReview: Queers at the Table: An Illustrated Guide to Queer Food (with Recipes), edited by Alex D. Ketchum and Megan J. Elias“In a food-media box packed with chef bros and kitchen bad boys, the very idea of queer food was ludicrous,” wrote John Birdsall to characterize 2013, the year he published in Lucky Peach his James Be...
Dr. Alex Ketchum (she/her)
@aketchum22.bsky.social

In addition to being a tenured Associate Professor at the IGSF of McGill University for the GSFS Undergraduate and WMST Graduate Programs and an Associate Member of the Digital Humanities Program, I am now an Associate Member in the Department of History and Classical Studies