[Themaintainers] Digital Queers and High Tech Gays: The History of LGBTQ+ Cyber Activism- SO MUCH of the book is about the work of MAINTENANCE

[Alex Ketchum]

I am happy to share that my newest book *Digital Queers and High Tech Gays:
The History of LGBTQ+ Cyber Activism (MIT Press, 2027) is now available for
pre-order**.*
https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262058100/digital-queers-and-high-tech-gays/
(it should show up as 40 USD- there was a glitch with the metadata on some
sites, so please don't overpay)

SO MUCH of the book is about the work of *MAINTENANCE*. I also use Vinsel
and Russel's definition of "tech" as part of the framing. The repetitive,
seemingly mundane, often over-looked tasks are what I argue maintain social
movements.

To get a sense of the book, here is the table of contents (and I have paste
the book description below that)

*Table of Contents*

Introduction 1


*Part I: Building the Network*

1 LGBTQ+ ­ Labor ­ Organizing Outside the Workplace:

Developing Regional, National, and International Organizations

of LGBTQ+ Associations of Engineers,

Scientists, and High-­ Tech Professionals


2 LGBTQ+ ­ Labor ­ Organizing Within Companies: Queer

Employee Resource Groups Reshaping the Tech Industry


*Part II: The Cyber Queer Agenda*


3 We’re ­ Here! ­ We’re Queer! We Have E-­ mail!: Digital Queers

and Getting LGBTQ+ ­ Organizations Online


4 Techno Dykes and Teaching the Internet


*Part III: ­ Organizations in Transition Between Media Technologies*


5 From Phone Lines to Online: LGBTQ+ Hotlines

and HIV/AIDS Switchboards


6 LGBTQ2S+ Archives: Digital ­ Futures and

Preserving the Past


Conclusion: Net Value and the Dream

of a Queerer Internet


*Description of the book:*


*How LGBTQ+ cyber activists in the United States, Canada, and the United
Kingdom shaped the Internet and how the Internet shaped LGBTQ+ activism.*

*Digital Queers and High Tech Gays* tells the history of LGBTQ+ cyber
activism in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom and how it
ultimately shaped the Internet as we know it.

Beginning in 1980, queer cyber activists founded regional, national, and
international organizations of engineers, scientists, and high-tech
professionals. From advocating for tech workers’ rights to equipping LGBTQ+
organizations with the hardware and software needed to do their work to
creating in-person and online spaces where they shared information,
socialized, and preserved queer histories, LGBTQ+ cyber activists used
analog and digital technologies to transform queer folks’ lives both on the
Internet and away from the keyboard.

Queer cyber activists also built crucial Internet infrastructures and
expanded the idea of who could be an Internet user. And, through their work
with LGBTQ2S+ archives, they ultimately created the tools needed to
preserve their own history. In this book, Alex Ketchum shares their untold,
pathbreaking story.

-- 

Alex Ketchum, PhD

Associate Professor at McGill University's Institute for Gender, Sexuality,
and Feminist Studies

Director of the Just Feminist Tech and Scholarship Lab

Author of *Digital Queers and High Tech Gays: the History of LGBTQ+ Cyber
Activism* (MIT Press, 2027)

Co-editor of *Queers at the Table: An Illustrated Guide to Queer Food *(Arsenal
Pulp Press, 2025)

Founder of Disrupting Disruptions and Creator of The Feminist Restaurant
Project

Author of* Ingredients for Revolution: A History of American Feminist
Restaurants, Cafes, and Coffeehouses* (Concordia Uni Press, 2022)

Author of *Engage in Public Scholarship!: A Guidebook on Feminist and
Accessible Communication* (Concordia Uni Press, 2022)

alexketchum(dot)ca| pronouns she/her
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