iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

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.

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Dr. Alex Ketchum (she/her) @aketchum22.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

sharing this piece in our union's thread

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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

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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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 · 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 · 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?

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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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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 · 08/05/2026

and there's also OFF FBDM/MCAF too (which has even more indie cartoonists) at the same time

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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

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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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

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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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