Dr. Alex Ketchum (she/her)

10 amazing LGBTQ+ books to add to your shelf These are some amazing LGBTQ+ books you can read, with topics ranging from sex ed to queer history to mental health guides and more.

Thanks @gcnmag.bsky.social for putting Queers at the Table on this list!! gcn.ie/amazing-lgbt...

@arsenalpulp.bsky.social @mcgillarts.bsky.social

💯 Hands down best metaphor I've seen on the internet in a hot minute.

please pass on to her how powerful so many of us found this poem

wow

Also check out @hzeavin.bsky.social 's terrific book The Distance Cure (includes discussions of ELIZA)

Federal agencies hiding out in a bunker

In light of the Columbia and Brown deals, I’m bumping these slides again about the Nazi takeover of German science, which includes discussion about how they took over academia, in a manner very similar to the Brown and Columbia deals

the summaries of the articles: rebeccakreitzer.com/summaries-of...

Rebecca Kreitzer has assembled the hundreds of studies showing how they are ineffective and biased: rebeccakreitzer.com/bias/

Truly, it’s the racism.

I don't want to sugarcoat anything but it bears acknowledging loudly that day in & day out, despite literally everything, scholars keep researching, writing, & publishing work that, in ways big & small, implicit & explicit, via its sheer existence, is a defiant F U to the current administration.

A $17 Hotdog and a Humanoid Robot Serving Popcorn: WIRED’s Day at the Tesla Diner WIRED stopped by the new Tesla Diner in Hollywood to talk to people who still stan Elon Musk. “I want to go to Mars, and he is going to take us,” one visitor told us.

This #JasonParham @wired.com article about the tesla diner echoes my writings about kitchen computers + robots and the sexism and racism within retrofuturism

online.ucpress.edu/gastronomica...

www.wired.com/story/search...

Hundreds of medieval medical manuscripts now accessible Over the course of the last three years, the Curious Cures in Cambridge Libraries project has been enhancing the discoverability of medieval medical recipes in historic library collections across the ...

Over 7000 pages of medieval medical recipes are now freely accessible online at the end of the Curious Cures in Cambridge Libraries project.
👉 Discover more about this ambitious project and its achievements: loom.ly/XFJt-Tg

excited to be presenting this year! :)

WHY do we believe anything tech companies tell us anymore?

Do people just forget the endless self serving lies about their technologies? The technofascism? Again, THEIR LIES?

time for my new favorite tumblr post

Oh we noticed

We’re so excited to see that QUEERS AT THE TABLE by @aketchum22.bsky.social and Megan J. Elias’s is featured in PW’s roundup of graphic novels/illustrated works coming out this fall!

Out Oct. 7 - pre-order your copy today!

Alex and Megan are represented by Rob Firing and Brenna English-Loeb.

i love this idea!

The metaphor of the party: Tell students that reading an analytical article feels very similar to going to a party where they know only one person, but everyone else has been going to the same parties for years. The new person (the student) doesn’t know the prior history of the groups (who hates whom, who used to date whom, for example) and needs to be filled in on the backstory. This is very similar to many disciplines in which the ongoing conversation into which a particular author is making an intervention is quite complex and pulls from divergent sources. When students are first asked to read an analytical argument that is densely referenced, they may get confused and give up. The metaphor of the party lets students know that you expect them to feel over-loaded when they first read an article that is densely layered from multiple citation lineages.

omg cute

The Fastest Way to a Comics Fan’s Heart This Fall season lays out a feast of comics about cooking, restaurants, eating, and imbibing.

Thanks @publisherswkly.bsky.social for mentioning Queers at the Table!!!

www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
@arsenalpulp.bsky.social @transatlanticagcy.bsky.social @mcgillarts.bsky.social

Yes, imagine that.... investing into your community makes it better for everyone.

Happy to hear someone gets it and in power to do something about it.

The Voyager Declaration Dear Interim Administrator Duffy, In light of your recent appointment as Interim NASA Administrator, we bring to your attention recent policies that have or threaten to waste public resources, compromise human safety, weaken national security, and undermine the core NASA mission. We, the signatories of this letter, dissent from these policies, and raise these concerns because we believe strongly in the importance of NASA's mission, which we are dedicated to uphold. Major programmatic shifts at NASA must be implemented strategically so that risks are managed carefully. Instead, the last six months have seen rapid and wasteful changes which have undermined our mission and caused catastrophic impacts on NASA's workforce. We are compelled to speak up when our leadership prioritizes political momentum over human safety, scientific advancement, and efficient use of public resources. These cuts are arbitrary and have been enacted in defiance of congressional appropriations law The consequences for the agency and the country alike are dire. Our Shared Commitment to Dissentin� Opinions We share a commitment to dissenting views in accordance with NASA Policy Directive 1000.0C, NASA supports full and open discussion of issues of any nature (e.g., programmatic, institutional), including alternative and divergent views. Diverse views are to be fostered and respected in an environment of integrity and trust with no suppression or retribution. (NPD 1000.0C, Section 3.5.5) Employees across the agency have raised concerns about recent actions to NASA leadership, yet we remain pressured to implement harmful measures. We choose to write to you directly because: (I) as Interim Administrator, you are the final step in the chain of Technical Authority, and (2) the issues we raise are agency-wide, rather than project-specific. As defined in NASA Procedural Requirement 7120 5F, Formal Dissent is "a substantive disagreement with a decision or action that an indiv…

• We dissent to changes to NASA's Technical Authority capacities that are driven by anything other than safety and mission assurance. The culture of organizational silence promoted at NASA over the last six months already represents a dangerous tum away from the lessons learned following the Columbia disaster. Changes to the system of Technical Authority, as suggested would be made in the June 25th NASA Town Hall, should be made only in the interests of improving safety, not in anticipation of future budget cuts. • We dissent to the closing out of missions for which Congress has appropriated funding because it represents a permanent loss of capability to the United States both in space and on Eatlh. Once operational spacecraft are decommissioned, they cannot be turned back on. Additionally, cancelling missions in development threatens to end the next generation of crucial observations. • We dissent to implementing indiscriminate cuts to NASA science and aeronautics research because this will leave the American people without the unique public good that NASA provides. Basic research in space science, aeronautics, and the stewardship of the Earth are inherently governmental functions that cannot and will not be taken up by the private sector. Furthermore, NASA has a nearly threefold return on investment in economic activity, and supports national security by ensuring the United States maintains its lead in science and technology. • We dissent to NASA's non-strategic staffing reductions because they will jeopardize NASA's core mission. Thousands of NASA civil servant employees have already been terminated, resigned or retired early, taking with them highly specialized, irreplaceable knowledge crucial to carrying out NASA's mission. • We dissent to canceling NASA participation in international missions because in doing so, NASA is abandoning America's allies. To date, 55 nations have signed on to the Artemis Accords, and withdrawing support from missions with our long-s…

We stand in solidarity with our colleagues at the NIH and EPA who have released similar statements concerning the administration's actions at their respective agencies. We dedicate this letter to Gus Grissom, Ed White, Roger Chaffee, Dick Scobee, Michael J. Smith, Ronald McNair, Ellison Onizuka, Judith Resnik, Gregory Jarvis, Christa McAuliffe, Rick Husband, Willie McCool, Michael Anderson, Kalpana Chawla, David Brown, Laurel Clark, and Ilan Ramon. Their legacies underpin every conversation about our shared commitment to safety and dissenting opinions at NASA.

NEW: Hundreds of NASA employees have filed a letter of formal dissent.

"We are compelled to speak up when our leadership prioritizes political momentum over human safety, scientific advancement, and efficient use of public resources. The consequences for the agency and the country alike are dire."

Magical Computing Giles: Are you a witch? Jenny: I don’t have that kind of power. “Technopagan” is the term. Buffy the Vampire Slayer’s eighth episode, “I Robot, You Jane,” taps into a fascinating emergent trend in dig...

yessss!! very excited to share this with folks!!! (thank you for editing it!!)
and in the meantime, I wrote a piece for hack_curio a few years ago hackcur.io/magical-comp...
+ curated an exhibit on tech wizards and cyber witches (techwizardtocyberwitch.com)

yessss!! very excited to share this with folks
and in the meantime, I wrote a piece for hack_curio a few years ago hackcur.io/magical-comp...
+ curated an exhibit on tech wizards and cyber witches (techwizardtocyberwitch.com)

Sex Workers Are Being Abducted by ICE — and Abandoned by Respectability Politics Sex workers targeted by ICE need the migrant justice movement’s full solidarity.

THE REPORTING HERE IS IMPORTANT:

“Over 90 days in January and February, nearly 1,000 arrests in Queens, New York, targeted immigrant sex workers and street vendors.”

truthout.org/articles/sex...

excellent shirt

I am in this book and made the recipe I illustrated and it is DELICIOUS. 100/10 would recommend.

thanks!!!

So lucky to have gotten with 2 great presses!! @arsenalpulp.bsky.social and @concordiapress.bsky.social !! dreams to work with