0.17. Dip Me in Honey & Throw Me To the Lesbians: Queer Feminist Restaurant History

Anyone remember that pin & bumper sticker with the slogan
that serves as the title for this episode? Well, I hope you’re
hungry, because we’re talking lesbians and food in this interview
with Dr. Alex Ketchum, Director of the Just Feminist Tech and
Scholarship Lab, lecturer, and author, whose work integrates
food, environmental, technological, and gender history. We talk
about her latest book, Ingredients for Revolution: A History of
American Feminist Restaurants, Cafes, and Coffeehouses, the first
history of the more than 230 feminist and lesbian-feminist
restaurants, cafes, and coffeehouses that existed in the United
States from 1972 to the present. We dive into the ways these
institutions provided spaces and community to tackle questions
around the intersections between feminism, food justice, queer
rights, and other social justice movements while serving as
training grounds for women workers and entrepreneurs, as well as
what the landscape of queer feminist restaurants looks like
today.


You can order your copy of Ingredients for Revolution for 20% off
(for U.S. readers) through University of Chicago Press, or
through Concordia University Press for Canadian readers, and
listen to the accompanying podcast, full of interviews with
others in the food justice and feminism world, at
TheFeministRestaurantProject.com


Where To Find Dr. Alex Ketchum Online:


www.alexketchum.ca

www.thefeministrestaurantproject.com

@aketchum22 on Twitter

@dr.alexketchum on Instagram



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