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
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
How to Organize a Book Tour: Promote Your New Publication | Microcosm Publishing
Learn 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...
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I also get SO MANY SCAM invitations for book talks and radio interviews. It's SOOOOOO annoying. It's averaging 5 a day.
www.eventbrite.ca/e/workshop-h... at Glad Day in Toronto @microcosm.bsky.social @mcgillarts.bsky.social
Workshop: How to Organize Inclusive Events - with Alex Ketchum
Join us for a free workshop that also celebrates the launch of Alex D. Ketchum's new book How to Organize Inclusive Events & Conferences.
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“Drew wrote that topic courses were too ‘narrow’ to qualify for the core… The list of topic courses on the 🪓 block includes Modern Art of 🇲🇽; Slavery + its Legacies; Race, Law + 🇺🇸 Society; History of Money + Corruption;… Banned Books + Novel Ideas; Global Environmental History; 🇺🇸 Jewish History…”
Dave Mazella@davemazella.bsky.social · 3w agoThis is the endgame for TX "core reform": wiping out any traces of the last 100 yrs of scholarship in the humanities, but also wiping out the humanities. This is coming to every system in the state. www.statesman.com/news/educati...
Over the past six years researchers have paid over $1B to publish in Elsevier journals. Elsevier has a ~36% profit margin and roughly $2.3B in profit last year. www.linkedin.com/posts/doug-w...
RELX reports H1 earnings with 7% revenue growth | Doug Way posted on the topic | LinkedIn
RELX, Elsevier’s parent company, held its H1 earnings call on July 23, 2026. Below are some observations from a librarian’s perspective. The numbers (growth %’s are underlying): - REXL revenue: £4...
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Eric Schares@eschares.bsky.social · 4w ago🚨Update: Our analysis of global APC expenditure has now been expanded to cover more publishers (7 -> 14) and more years (2019-2025). We estimate $15B in APCs paid over seven years, $3.7B in 2025 alone. Elsevier crosses the $1B threshold by itself in 2025. arxiv.org/abs/2608.16322 #ScholComm
Hey everyone! You know how I frequently organize book tours and book events? Well people kept asking me to share my tips... so I have-- by writing this zine! Thanks for publishing @microcosm.bsky.social ! Learn more / order at: microcosmpublishing.com/catalog/zine... @mcgillarts.bsky.social
www.eventbrite.com/e/margaret-g... hybrid event with @margaretgalvan.bsky.social !!! join us!!
Margaret Galvan on Queer Cartoonist Publishing Histories (1980s-90s)
With Margaret Galvan: A Cornucopia of Forms: Anglophone Queer Cartoonist Publishing Histories in the 1980s and 1990s ---free lunch provided
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I'm excited to announce that my new book is available for pre-order!! @mitpress.bsky.social mitpress.mit.edu/978026205810... @mcgillarts.bsky.social @mcgillumedia.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 · 2mo agoSometimes 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.
"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
Thank you!!! @arsenalpulp.bsky.social @mcgillarts.bsky.social
Diana@dianacrowley.bsky.social · 3mo agoI just finished @aketchum22.bsky.social and Megan J. Elias's "Queers at the Table"! I resonated with stories of trans community through shared meals, the use of zines and magazines to spread knowledge and queer culture, & the history of the ways we celebrate and feed ourselves. I won't soon forget.
SO COOL! Megan and I are in a short film about queer food: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Imf9...
What is Queer Food?
YouTube video by Lauren The Campbell
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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.
Do people outside academia understand what a devastating, anti-science policy this is? Medical breakthroughs, sustainable energy, technological innovations, social understanding, international collaboration... all sacrificed on the bonfire of MAGA ideology.
Jennifer Ouellette@jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 4mo agoProposed new US funding rules: We can cancel any grant at any time arstechnica.com/science/2026...
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 · 4mo agoWhite 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...
I am so tired of these people. Can we have one fucking thing where AI isn't mining people for their knowledge and experience and then pitching a shitty, hallucinatory, often dangerous 'replacement.'
Researchers Wanted Preschool Teachers to Wear Cameras to Train AI
“With your permission, your child’s lead teacher may wear a small teacher-worn camera that captures the teacher's approximate first-person perspective, and/or we may place a fixed video camera in the ...
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AOC: This is what drinking water in Georgia looks like after Meta began data center construction in the community.
thank you Washington Blade! for covering the Queer Food Conference! www.washingtonblade.com/2026/05/21/w...
What is queer food?
Two experts tackle unique question in conference, books
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giving a talk for the Culinary Historians of Canada: www.blogto.com/events/ingre...
Ingredients for Queer Food and the Makings of a Feminist Restaurant
Coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the trailblazing restaurant Mother Courage of New York City, Alex Ketchum's book Ingredients for Revolution: A His…
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Excited to share that I am a MIT Research Fellow for the Women@MIT Research Fellowship! libraries.mit.edu/news/2026-wo...
2026 Women@MIT Fellows Announced | News
Alex Ketchum and Monica Storss have been named Women@MIT fellows for 2026. The fellowship invites scholars, activists, artists, musicians, writers, and others to showcase the Women@MIT collections in ...
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Always love to be reminded of this. A lot of it was hand-stitched too. Really amazing, precise work. Women’s work is so often minimised and forgotten.
Reflecting on the conference! After working 500 hours over the past 15 months planning this conference, I am so content with how it went. @mcgillarts.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...
Bamboo-based plastic can be made to biodegrade quickly, but still holds up in tough conditions
A 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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Really enjoying the first day of the #queerfoodconference and looking forward to my (online) presentation tomorrow on the Twochubbycubbs cookbooks/franchise! #queerfood #queercooking #cookbooks #foodsky @aketchum22.bsky.social
