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Dr. Alex Ketchum (she/her)

@aketchum22.bsky.social
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PhD in History, professor of Feminist + Social Justice Studies; food, environmental, gender, +tech history, queer, founder of Disrupting Disruptions www.alexketchum.ca linktr.ee/aketchum

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Dr. Alex Ketchum (she/her) @aketchum22.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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
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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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Dr. Alex Ketchum (she/her) @aketchum22.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I also get SO MANY SCAM invitations for book talks and radio interviews. It's SOOOOOO annoying. It's averaging 5 a day.
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Dr. Alex Ketchum (she/her) @aketchum22.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
www.eventbrite.ca/e/workshop-h... at Glad Day in Toronto @microcosm.bsky.social @mcgillarts.bsky.social
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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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Dr. Alex Ketchum (she/her) @aketchum22.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
speaking at this event next week! 1618a.blackbaudhosting.com/1618a/ticket...
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George Eastman Museum
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
“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…”
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
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...
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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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Dr. Alex Ketchum (she/her) @aketchum22.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
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
cover image and author photo with text New Guide Alert, available at microcosm publishing .com
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Dr. Alex Ketchum (she/her) @aketchum22.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
www.eventbrite.com/e/margaret-g... hybrid event with @margaretgalvan.bsky.social !!! join us!!
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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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Dr. Alex Ketchum (she/her) @aketchum22.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
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
cover of the book has the title and my name and a glitchy computer
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Dr. Alex Ketchum (she/her) @aketchum22.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
I similarly feel like every time I hold a book, I am holding part of someone's life force
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
"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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Dr. Alex Ketchum (she/her) @aketchum22.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Thank you!!! @arsenalpulp.bsky.social @mcgillarts.bsky.social
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Dr. Alex Ketchum (she/her) @aketchum22.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
SO COOL! Megan and I are in a short film about queer food: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Imf9...
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What is Queer Food?
YouTube video by Lauren The Campbell
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Earthling @ziyatong.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
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@nluewmist / I’m finally reading Dune. This quote which in the first few pages hit hard; “once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only let other men with machines to enslave them.”
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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
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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Dr. Alex Ketchum (she/her) @aketchum22.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
arsenalpulp.com/News/2026/Re...
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Reader's Guide: Queers at the Table
Arsenal Pulp Press is a book publisher in Vancouver, Canada with over 300 titles currently in print, which include literary fiction and nonfiction; cultural and gender studies; LGBT and multicultural ...
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Dr. Alex Ketchum (she/her) @aketchum22.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
thanks CBC books: www.cbc.ca/books/30-can...
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30 Canadian books to read this Pride Month and beyond | CBC Books
June is Pride Month! To celebrate, CBC Books is highlighting fiction, nonfiction, poetry and comics by 2SLGBTQ+ writers in Canada to add to your reading list this year.
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Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
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.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 29/05/2026
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.
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 21/05/2026
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.'
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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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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
AOC: This is what drinking water in Georgia looks like after Meta began data center construction in the community.
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Dr. Alex Ketchum (she/her) @aketchum22.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
thank you Washington Blade! for covering the Queer Food Conference! www.washingtonblade.com/2026/05/21/w...
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What is queer food?
Two experts tackle unique question in conference, books
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Dr. Alex Ketchum (she/her) @aketchum22.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
giving a talk for the Culinary Historians of Canada: www.blogto.com/events/ingre...
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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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Dr. Alex Ketchum (she/her) @aketchum22.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Excited to share that I am a MIT Research Fellow for the Women@MIT Research Fellowship! libraries.mit.edu/news/2026-wo...
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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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Dr. Alex Ketchum (she/her) @aketchum22.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
the work never ends.....
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Dr Kat Day (she/her) 🌖 @chronicleflask.katday.com · 04/05/2026
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.
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ALSO, it's not just little old ladies sewed the first spacesuits," it's "the women from the Playtex Corp were the only ones who could sew within the tolerances needed." Yes, THAT Playtex Corp, the one who makes bras.
Bra-makers sent us to the moon.
And the cool thing with them was that they did it all WITHOUT PINS, WITHOUT SEAM RIPPING and in ONE TRY. You couldn't use pins or re-sew seams because the spacesuits had to be airtight, so any additional holes in them were NO GOOD. They were also sewing to some STUPID tight tolerances-in our costume shop if you're within an eighth of an inch of being on the line, you're usually good. The Playtex ladies were working on tolerances of 1/32nd of an inch. 1/32nd. AND IN 21 LAYERS OF FABRIC.
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Dr. Alex Ketchum (she/her) @aketchum22.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
So filled with gratitude! @mcgillarts.bsky.social @sshrc-crsh.canada.ca @museemccordstewart.bsky.social
to our caterers: Dispatch, Morena Mia, Sophie Christinel, Royale Ginette, Your Tiny Catering/Yaya, Dep Le Pick Up, and Abierto MTL (many of whom were also our keynotes)
to our funders: SSHRC, IGSF, and RéQEF
to our collaborators at the Archives gaies du Québec, McGill Rare Books, and McCord-Stewart Museum
to all of our amazing presenters!
to the amazing student workers (don’t worry- they were paid!)
to Petros, Andrew, and Sandra for assisting with room booking, processing payments, and honorariums + the cleaning crew + event staff that brought the tables
and of course to my co-organizer Megan (it’s Alex, here, I do all of the social media)
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Dr. Alex Ketchum (she/her) @aketchum22.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
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
text: Thank you to everyone who was part of the 2026 Queer Food Conference!
3 days
over 200 participants
fully hybrid conference
21 panels, workshops, and roundtables 
4 keynotes
4 shared meals + 2 snack times
prepared by 6 different queer food businesses (+ then MTL bagels)+ a collab pizza party with more queer food businesses
closing party at a queer bar
collab exhibitions at the AGQ and Concordia
community partnerships with Rare Books and museums
lots of laughter, learning, and dreaming!
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
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...
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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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Dr Ursula Kania @instantlinguist.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
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
Cover slide of a power point presentation, with the queer food conference logo at the top, followed by the title 'Twochubbycubs - sexual innuendos, Slimming World, and social media', the author's contact information and the University of Liverpool logo
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Dr. Alex Ketchum (she/her) @aketchum22.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
2 days until the Queer Food Conference!! @mcgillarts.bsky.social
2 days until the Queer Food Conference
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Willow @rockshrimp.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
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.
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Dr. Alex Ketchum (she/her) @aketchum22.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
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...
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Let's Cook The Joke Vegetarian Food From Alison Bechdel's Dykes To Watch Out For
The famous lesbian comic strip satirizes politically-conscious eating with dishes that were never meant to exist--until now
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Dr. Alex Ketchum (she/her) @aketchum22.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Recent interview I did about queer food www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDIx... @mcgillarts.bsky.social
screenshot of youtube screen on purple
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Dr. Alex Ketchum (she/her) @aketchum22.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Giving a talk for the Culinary Historians of Canada: www.eventbrite.ca/e/1986686650...
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Ingredients for Queer Food and the Makings of a Feminist Restaurant
Dr. Alex Ketchum, McGill University
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Dr. Alex Ketchum (she/her) @aketchum22.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Rejoignez-nous le mardi 16 juin pour le finissage de « A Taste of Queer Montreal : une exposition sur l'histoire de la gastronomie et des boissons 2SLGBTQ+ ». www.eventbrite.com/e/finissage-... @mcgillarts.bsky.social
Rejoignez-nous le mardi 16 juin pour le finissage de « A Taste of Queer Montreal : une exposition sur l'histoire de la gastronomie et des boissons 2SLGBTQ+ ». Le Dre Alex Ketchum, commissaire de l'exposition, prononcera une brève allocution. Nous vous proposerons des gâteaux préparés par la pâtissière queer Violet Bakehouse. Nous avons également enrichi l'exposition de nouveaux éléments depuis le vernissage.
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Dr. Alex Ketchum (she/her) @aketchum22.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Finissage on June 16th! www.eventbrite.com/e/finissage-... Join us for a finissage for A Taste of Queer Montreal: An Exhibition of 2SLGBTQ+ Food and Drink History!
Join us for a finissage for A Taste of Queer Montreal: An Exhibition of 2SLGBTQ+ Food and Drink History! on purple background with cake
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Dr. Alex Ketchum (she/her) @aketchum22.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
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)
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Exploring Queer Food and the Montreal Restaurant Scene
Explore 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.
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Dr. Alex Ketchum (she/her) @aketchum22.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
this review also cites Ingredients for Revolution @concordiapress.bsky.social @mcgillarts.bsky.social
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Dr. Alex Ketchum (she/her) @aketchum22.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
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...
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Review: 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...
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PT Klein @ptklein.com · 20/04/2026
good morning monday morning
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Dr. Alex Ketchum (she/her) @aketchum22.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
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
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Woohoo, here's my essay with my fav co-author on 30,000 fellowship wins across the Guggenheim, Stanford CASBS, NAEd, National Humanities Center, RSF visiting scholar, and Harvard Radcliffe. Spoiler: it's the people working at prestigious universities www.publicbooks.org/who-gets-gug...
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Who Gets Guggenheims? - Public Books
Unfortunately, 100 years of data show that those whom such fellowships might represent the greatest departure from their everyday experience—that is, those not at elite institutions—are least likely t...
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Dr. Alex Ketchum (she/her) @aketchum22.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
about to go live on Queer Choas radio!!! www.cjlo.com/player.html
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Dr. Alex Ketchum (she/her) @aketchum22.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
great sign about the interest in zines- but yea- that's wild! Expozine in Montreal is huge these days!
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Dr. Alex Ketchum (she/her) @aketchum22.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Thanks everyone for coming to our workshop on inclusive events with @microcosm.bsky.social and of course we had a human cart captioner! @mcgillarts.bsky.social
screenshot of zoom screen and thank you text
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Dr. Alex Ketchum (she/her) @aketchum22.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Venez découvrir la nouvelle exposition, assister aux interventions des conservateurs et profiter de la nouvelle compilation « Exhibition House Mix Track », qui mêle témoignages oraux, musique house historique de Montréal et nouvelles compositions. www.eventbrite.com/e/1980220750...
french invitation to vernissage- text in the eventbrite link
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Thomas J. Tobin @thomasjtobin.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
FREE . . . ONLINE . . . BOOK LAUNCH! (tomorrow, so hurry)
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Dr. Alex Ketchum (she/her) @aketchum22.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Still time to sign up! Wednesday, April 8, 6:30 PM ET free and online www.eventbrite.com/e/organize-i...
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Organize Inclusive Events (+conferences)! A Workshop and Book launch
Part book launch/ part free, virtual interactive workshop, learn more about how to organize inclusive events (and conferences)!
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Dr. Alex Ketchum (she/her) @aketchum22.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
This week! Free, online event www.eventbrite.com/e/1982910523... Wednesday, April 8 at 6:30 PM ET
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Organize Inclusive Events (+conferences)! A Workshop and Book launch
Part book launch/ part free, virtual interactive workshop, learn more about how to organize inclusive events (and conferences)!
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