Episode 4: Thirst Space

In our first episode we talked about what feminist restaurants, cafes, and coffeehouses were and are. In the second, we talked about what feminist food is and the connections between food in gender. In the third, we talked about the ways that feminist restaurants, cafes, and coffeehouses were part of the feminist nexus and other ideas of networks. The episode included some discussion of lesbian bars, but it wasn’t the focus of the episode. This episode will talk about lesbian, queer, and gay bars and the concept of “thirst space.” We will be joined by sociologist Dr. Greggor Mattson and indee mitchell of Last Call New Orleans.

For the transcript, please visit: http://www.thefeministrestaurantproject.com/p/podcast.html

  Learn more about Dr. Greggor Mattson at: https://greggormattson.com/gay-bars/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/greggormattson   Learn more about indee mitchell at: https://alternateroots.org/indee/ For more on Last Call: http://www.lastcallnola.org/who-we-are  

The link to the journal article “The Place We've Always Wanted to Go But Never Could Find”: Finding Woman Space in Feminist Restaurants and Cafés in Ontario 1974–1982," is at: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.15767/feministstudies.44.1.0126 and an OA version is available at: https://www.alexketchum.ca/p/publication-links.html

Feminist Ingredients for Revolution: A Food and Queer History Podcast will explore all of this and more over the course of the following episodes. Please follow the podcast to be notified of new updates. All transcripts are available at: thefeministrestaurantproject.com 

My book Ingredients for Revolution: A History of American Feminist Restaurants, Cafes, and Coffeehouses is coming out Fall 2022 from Concordia University Press. You can receive 20% off pre-orders with the discount code KETCHUM20. I’ve included the link in the shownotes and the transcript (https://www.concordia.ca/press/ingredients.html#read). An open access version will be released a bit later.