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

History is Gay

Leigh Pfeffer

History, Society & Culture

4.6 • 536 Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

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

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, I just wanted to give a quick disclaimer an intro up at the top of this episode
0:05.5	to let you know that this interview with Alex Ketchum about lesbian feminist restaurant history
0:11.5	was recorded originally back in September 2022 and was unfortunately one of the conversations
0:18.1	that got pushed back with the health and technology-related delays
0:22.6	that I talked about in our last episode, which meant that I wasn't able to get it out
0:27.3	before the publication of Alex's book and the release of her podcast. On the plus side,
0:33.3	though, both are available now, and so you don't have to do any waiting. So, yay. You'll hear at the end
0:40.3	of the interview information on how to order the book and listen to the podcast, and the discount
0:45.1	code that Alex provides is still valid for readers in the U.S. to get 20% off the book if you want to
0:50.5	check it out, and it will be available to read for free via open access a little later
0:55.2	in early 2023. This was a really wonderful conversation. I learned so much about feminist,
1:01.9	queer restaurant history. So many things about the connection between food and class and
1:08.6	queerness and gender and business. It's a really great conversation that I hope
1:14.5	that you will enjoy. We've always been here every single year from ancient gays right up to
1:25.9	today's see his history is queer.
1:30.8	Some think it's a new way, but we've got something to say.
1:38.7	History is very, very, very, very gay.
1:46.3	Hello, everyone.
1:48.8	Welcome to another bonus episode of History is Gay.
1:53.1	I am Lee Pfeffer, as always, and I'm sitting down today for an interview with someone pretty cool. We're going to be talking about
2:03.1	lesbian and feminist and lesbian feminist spaces, like physical spaces, imagine that,
2:09.5	that are not bars. In fact, we're going to be talking about things like cafes and bookstores
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