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<p data-olk-copy-source="MailCompose">Dear colleagues,</p>
<p>The<a href="https://www.humanities.utoronto.ca/programs-research/research/working-groups/theories-and-praxis-digital-labour-fault-lines-digital" title="https://www.humanities.utoronto.ca/programs-research/research/working-groups/theories-and-praxis-digital-labour-fault-lines-digital"> Digital
Labour working group</a><a href="https://www.humanities.utoronto.ca/programs-research/research/working-groups/theories-and-praxis-digital-labour-fault-lines-digital" title="https://www.humanities.utoronto.ca/programs-research/research/working-groups/theories-and-praxis-digital-labour-fault-lines-digital">
</a>and the <a href="https://kmdi.utoronto.ca/" title="https://kmdi.utoronto.ca/">
Knowledge Media Design Institute (KMDI)</a><a href="https://kmdi.utoronto.ca/" title="https://kmdi.utoronto.ca/">
</a>are pleased to invite you to a book talk with <b>Alex D. Ketchum</b>, Associate Professor in the Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies at McGill University. </p>
<b>Book Talk</b> <br>
<b><i>Digital Queers and High Tech Gays</i></b> <br>
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<b>Tuesday March 3rd 2026, 2:00 p.m.</b> <br>
<b>KMDI - Robarts Library, Room 7020.</b> <br>
<b>130 St George St, Toronto</b> <br>
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<b>REGISTER HERE</b> <br>
<u><a href="https://forms.office.com/r/xSr5QqMdBe" id="OWA4ea4c6bd-13fa-eb0b-5633-3af3470c39a0" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">https://forms.office.com/r/xSr5QqMdBe</a></u> <br>
<b>In her forthcoming book, <i>Digital Queers and High Tech Gays</i>, Dr. Alex D. Ketchum explores how queer communities have long shaped internet culture by organizing, sharing knowledge, and preserving their own histories. >From zines and phone lines to early
websites, LGBTQ+ activists built digital infrastructures that offer vital lessons for today’s debates about technology, power, and activism.</b> <br>
<i>Digital Queers and High Tech Gays</i> traces the history of LGBTQ+ cyber activism in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and beyond. Beginning in the 1980s, queer cyber activists founded professional networks, built employee resource groups, distributed hardware and
software to community organizations, and produced guidebooks, zines, and manuals as part of a broader project of information activism. Using print media, phone lines, and the early web, they expanded ideas of who could be an internet user while also developing
archival practices to preserve their own histories. Centering joy alongside serious technical labor, these activists transformed both digital infrastructures and everyday queer life—on and off the screen. <br>
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<b><u><a href="https://www.alexketchum.ca/" id="OWAc1b055c8-1996-f7c2-ac48-56e094e2abc8" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">Alex D. Ketchum</a></u></b> is an Associate Professor in the Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies at McGill University
and Director of the Just Feminist Tech and Scholarship Lab. Their research brings together queer, feminist, labour, and technology history. Ketchum is the author of
<i>Ingredients for Revolution</i> and the forthcoming <i>Digital Queers and High Tech Gays</i>, and has led multiple SSHRC-funded projects on feminist publishing, digital archives, and inclusive knowledge production. <br>
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We hope you can join us for this conversation. <br>
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best, </div>
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