Feminist Ingredients for Revolution: A Food and Queer History Podcast

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 like to access the map, transcript, ...

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 futures sometimes falls in a kind of re...

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 on some of the differences between th...

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, cafes, and coffeehouses – and we ...

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 bars, but it wasn’t the focus of the...

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 joined by PhD candidate Kiersten Bes...

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 Revolution: A Food and Queer History Po...

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 this podcast, we will be digging into f...