Welcome to Episode 17 of A Seat At The Table with Spare Ribs Club!

In this podcast series, creator of Spare Ribs Club Alex Holker talks to guests about their dream feminist dinner party. From their 3 feminist guests, the 3 tunes that will be on repeat all evening, and the 3 courses being served, this podcast brings together conversations around feminism, female friendship and food.

In this episode, Alex talks to Dr. Alex Ketchum. Alex is a professor at the Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies of McGill University. She is the Director of the Just Feminist Tech and Scholarship Lab and the organizer of Disrupting Disruptions: The Feminist and Accessible Publishing, Communications, and Tech Speaker and Workshop Series. Her work integrates food, environmental, technological, and gender history. Ketchum's most recently-published book, Ingredients for Revolution: A History of American Feminist Restaurants, Cafes, and Coffeehouses (2022), is 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 discuss Alex's dream feminist dinner party, starting with a guest list of fellow academics and writers; Mindy Seu, Mimi Onuoha and Claire L. Evans. Set in Alex's garden in Montreal against a soundtrack of Mary J. Watkins, Tegan and Sara and NoSo, they start with salad dressed with a 1970s recipe for 'green dyke dressing', followed by Bloodroot's oatmeal sunflower seed bread and Moosewood's curried squash soup, finishing with Sister Pie's apple sage gouda pie, Lagusta's Luscious strawberry balsamic chocolates and coffee. We discuss Alex's career in academia and her focus on how academia and scholarship can be made more accessible for historically marginalised people.

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