Here are some of our research projects and efforts at research knowledge mobilization!
The list below highlights some of the lab's projects.

Historically Contextualizing Queer and Feminist Reactions/Approaches to Tech

Disrupting Disruptions: The Feminist and Accessible Publishing, Communications, and Tech Speaker and Workshop Series

From January 2019 until April 2025, Ketchum organized 106 events for this speaker series. Members of the lab supported the speaker series by helping with the tech, uploading recordings of the events to the series' YouTube Channel, with graphic design and more!

For recordings of most of the events, the full schedule, and additional resources, visit: www.disruptingdisruptions.com

The Cyberculture and Social Justice Directory

The cyberculture and social justice directory beta version went live on October 28, 2021: http://www.cybercultureandsocialjustice.com/

The Cyberculture and Social Justice Directory is a public directory of the resources assembled by the Just Feminist Tech and Scholarship Lab. This directory will always be incomplete and a work in progress. Rather than attempt to capture every resource at the intersections of cyberculture and social justice, the aim of this directory is to assemble resources used by the lab in one place that other people can access.
It was created as part of Dr. Alex Ketchum’s project exploring the history of reactions to the creation of computers, the Internet, Big Data, and AI technologies by people with a feminist and social justice lens, primarily in Canada and the United States.

As there is imprecision in all of these terms, creating this directory was an attempt to get a sense of larger trends within the findings. It was important to share the findings so others could benefit from the undertaking and build on it as it is useful to them. There's no need to keep re-inventing the wheel.
This directory is ever growing, expanding historically and in the future. We aim to include resources found in physical archives. However, this component of the project has been delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic and Ketchum's inability to travel to physical archives since Spring 2019. We have been greatly inspired by Mindy Seu’s amazing Cyberfeminism Index (https://cyberfeminismindex.com/about/). You will notice an overlap of some resources but the projects differ. Thank you to Mindy Seu for creating such a valuable resource and inspiring us to move our project away from Google Sheets and proprietary software.

Digital Queers and High Tech Gays

While the book project is based on Ketchum's archival research, lab members assisted with assembling materials for the lit review, organizing files, and copy editing. Special thanks to Kari Kuo!

From Tech Wizard to Cyber Witch: Invocations of Computing Technologies as Magic (40 Years of Magic on the Web)

From Tech Wizard to Cyber Witch: Invocations of Computing Technologies as Magic (40 Years of Magic on the Web) interrogates the different uses of tech terminology and metaphors that rely around ideas of magic, mythmaking, and fairy tale imagery. This digital collection/ exhibit is my effort to bring together the resources that I have used for my research in order to make these materials available to other people interested in researching this topic. As many of these resources exist on defunct websites, out of print books, and far down search engine list results, this digital collection/exhibit assembles these resources in a way that makes them more accessible for viewers and users.
techwizardtocyberwitch.com

Other Projects

“AI, Big Data, and Surveillance Zines as Forms of Community Healthcare” co-written with Nina Morena

The Retrofuturism of the Kitchen Computer: How Domestic Technologies Re-Centre Sexist and Racist Labour Ideologies (special assistance by Zoe Tolon, Hyeyoon Cho, and Sophie Ogilvie-Hanson)

New Project: Queers in (Outer) Space

The lab is currently assisting with Ketchum's newest project Queers in (Outer) Space, including helping with database building.

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Montreal's 2SLGBTQ+ History

Montreal Lesbian, Bisexual Women, Nonbinary People, Queer Women, and Two Spirit Folks' Oral History Project

From 2022-2024, Dr. Alex Ketchum and her research team, including Eléa Regembal, Laine McCrory, Jesssana Akehurst, Talia Pirsch, Lifan Cheng, Alex Strong-Saad, Raymond Johnson Brown, and Haley Clarke-Cousineau, conducted interviews with 28 Montreal-based lesbians, bisexual women, queer women, non-binary people, and two-spirit folks. Many of the interviews focused on how these people created LGBTQ+ spaces in Montreal. Most interviews lasted between 60 and 90 minutes.

You can access the full length 28 transcripts and audio files at the Archives lesbiennes du Québec and/or the Archives gaies du Québec. Both archives have copies of the oral histories as this project was done in collaboration with both archives.

Learn more at: https://www.justfeministtechandscholarshiplab.com/p/montreal-lesbian-and-queer-womens-oral.html

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Public Scholarship

Report on the State of Resources Provided to Support Scholars Against Harassment, Trolling, and Doxxing While Doing Public Media Work and How University Media Relations Offices/ Newsrooms Can Provide Better Support

In the summer of 2020, we sought to understand the kind of resources universities actually provide to support scholars doing public facing media work. We wanted to know: what information universities make available to scholars for dealing with trolling, doxxing, and harassment when they do public facing scholarship and media work; the availability of that information online (on the Media Relations Offices’ websites); and the information that Media Relations Offices/Newsrooms make available to scholars that might not be on their website (plans, policies, advice). The goal of this research is to establish what practices already exist, what information and resources are missing, and to encourage all Canadian universities’ Media Relations Offices to develop a best practices plan.

The report is available here: https://medium.com/@alexandraketchum/report-on-the-state-of-resources-provided-to-support-scholars-against-harassment-trolling-and-401bed8cfbf1 and at the pdf is available through the project website: https://publicscholarshipandmediawork.blogspot.com/p/report.html

The book Engage in Public Scholarship: A Guidebook on Feminist and Accessible Communication (2022) by Dr. Alex Ketchum builds on this work. It's available via open access at: https://www.concordia.ca/press/engage.html#order

Ketchum also published two zines with Microcosm Publishing related to the topics. "How to Organize Inclusive Events" (2020) and "How to Organize Inclusive Conferences" (2024 ). These zines have become the book How to Organize Inclusive Events and Conferences (2026).

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Feminist and Queer Food History/Studies

Cafe Queer Montreal

Members of the lab worked with Ketchum on Cafe Queer Montreal. The website showcases Montréal's 2SLGBTQ+ food and drink history, including everything from restaurants, bars, cafes, bake sales, parties, bakeries, potlucks, and more! We created it to compliment our physical exhibition that will show during spring 2026 at the Archives gaies du Québec and the Queer Food Conference (May 1-3, 2026 in Montréal).

This website includes digital exhibitions, offered in English, Français, Kanienʼkéha, and Inuktitut. We created a walking tour of Montréal's queer food and drink culture in English and Franćais. In addition to the audio files and descriptions on the website, there is an accompanying zine (downloadable as a PDF).
We included clips from Montreal's Lesbian, Bisexual, Non-binary, and Two Spirit Oral History Project that discuss food and drink spaces and events. There is an embedded (and downloadable) version of our in-progress directory of Montreal's 2SLGBTQ+ food and drink businesses, such as bars, cafes, and restaurants. Here is a link to spaces open in 2025. We also created a list of additional resources.

The purpose of this website is to document the history of how food fosters 2SLGBTQ+ community building in Montreal and provide resources for exploration, for students, and for future research. We encourage educators to use these materials within their classrooms.

Lesbian and Queer Women's Feminist Restaurant History

Members of the lab assisted with the podcast "Feminist Ingredients for Revolution: A Food and Queer History Podcast": https://www.thefeministrestaurantproject.com/p/podcast.html

The podcast communicates Ketchum's research on feminist restaurants (see more at: www.thefeministrestaurantproject.com), her zine "How to Start a Feminist Restauant" (Microcosm 2018) and her book Ingredients for Revolution: A History of American Feminist Restaurants, Cafes, and Coffeehouses (Concordia University Press, 2022). The book is also available in open access at: https://press.library.concordia.ca/projects/ingredients-for-revolution

Queer Food Conference

Members of the lab have assisted with the 2024 Queer Food Conference (Boston and hybrid) and the 2026 Queer Food Conference (Montreal and hybrid). Learn more about the conference at: https://www.queerfoodconference.com/

Additional Queer Food Publications

As part of the Queer Food Conference, we created a conference cookbook that also served as the program. Learn more about Cook Out! here. Thanks to lab member Amèlie Ducharme for helping with the graphic design.
To explain the process of creating the anthology Queers at the Table: An Illustrated Guide to Queer Food (with Recipes!) (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2025), we created a zine, available here: https://www.queerfoodconference.com/p/zine.html