Feminist Ingredients for Revolution: A Food and Queer History Podcast

Quelle meilleure façon d'en apprendre davantage sur l'histoire culinaire et gastronomique 2sLGBTQ+ de Montréal que de visiter certains des lieux qui en sont témoins ? Nous avons créé une visite guidée à pied de la culture culinaire et gastronomique queer de Montréal, en anglais et en français.  Il s'agit de la version française de la visite guidée.  Si vous souhaitez accéder à la carte, à la trans...

Savouring A Taste of Queer Montreal: Montreal’s LGBTQ2S+ Food and Drink History and the Cafe Queer Montreal Walking Tour What better way to learn about Montreal's 2sLGBTQ+ food and drink history than to visit some of the actual spaces?! We have created a walking tour of Montréal's queer food and drink culture in English and French.   This is the English version of the walking tour.  If you would l...

Episode 7: Feminist Food Futures Here is the link to the transcript:  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VZcavCcqSEIBMaRYwmHe8fhT68yy355XLtZSMHXBL4k/edit?usp=sharing In the past six episodes we have been talking a lot about feminist and queer food history and what is going on in the present. Today we are going to shift our framing somewhat. I begin by talking about how the framing of our food fut...

Episode 6: Generational Differences Here is the link to the transcript:  https://docs.google.com/document/d/146l8DcPRuQ6vrCxVSMsns61QpuWPENUvbZV7k92w6EY/edit?usp=sharing Our previous episodes have emphasized the histories of feminist restaurants, cafes, and coffeehouses in the 1970s and 1980s in the USA and Canada a bit more than the current existing ones. In today’s episode, I am going to touch o...

In previous episodes, we have talked about how feminist restaurants, cafes, and coffehouses in the United States and Canada in the 1970s and 1980s were connected to feminist bookstores, lesbian bars, women’s rights organizations– not to mention the broader network of Civil Rights, LGBTQ rights, and anti-racist organizations. Today we’ll be talking about the cultural outputs of feminist restaurants...

In our first episode we talked about what feminist restaurants, cafes, and coffeehouses were and are. In the second, we talked about what feminist food is and the connections between food in gender. In the third, we talked about the ways that feminist restaurants, cafes, and coffeehouses were part of the feminist nexus and other ideas of networks. The episode included some discussion of lesbian ba...

In the first episode we talked about the history of American and Canadian feminist restaurants and in the last episode we talked about what feminist food is. Today we will be talking about what I like to call “the feminist nexus”. We will be joined by Dr. Jen Jack Gieseking, the author of A Queer New York: Geographies of Lesbians, Dykes, and Queers published by NYU Press in 2020. We will also be j...

Episode 2: What is Feminist Food?   Here is the link to the transcript:  https://docs.google.com/document/d/14O1r5t3y-i4oJtO0eW-Mu8NL6kRubUK4L6VG3ivQoCs/edit?usp=sharing   In the last episode we talked about what a feminist restaurant is. Today we will be talking about feminist food and the big question of what makes food feminist. I’ll be joined by two guests today. The first is Dr. Emily Contois...

Episode 1: What Are Feminist Restaurants? Here is the link to the transcript:  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fRmRkNVBgixBNi4jCLr2cadX6C_Dw1gdiHcdvNJskjc/edit?usp=sharing I wanted to tell you a little bit about what to expect from the podcast and go over some key concepts and terms that will recur throughout the podcast… such as what even is a feminist restaurant? Feminist Ingredients for Rev...

Coming Soon- a new podcast on food, feminist, LGBTQ, and restaurant histories! The podcast is called: Feminist Ingredients for Revolution: A Food and Queer History Podcast! It’s hosted by me, Dr. Alex Ketchum. I’m a scholar of food, gender, feminist, and tech history and the author of the book Ingredients for Revolution: A History of American Feminist Restaurants, Cafes, and Coffeehouses .  On thi...