Free event! Open to queer folks, trans folks, allies and everyone. These events highlight books with WLW content, but are open to everyone!
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- February 9, 2026: Comics Arts on Queer Food, in collaboration with Prism Comics: the non-profit LGBTQIA+ Comics Organization, 6:00-7:30 PM ET (free, virtual event)
Special guests include Queers at the Table contributors Jon Macy, bailey macabre, Leah Spears, Blue Delliquanti, Nicole J. Georges, in addition to co-editors Megan J. Elias and Alex D. Ketchum. Tara Madison Avery (also a contributor to Queers at the Table) and Ted Abenheim of Prism Comics will be there!
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- February 10, 2026: Queer Food All Year, in collaboration with James Beard Foundation and Queer Food Foundation, 2 PM (free, virtual event)
Let's celebrate having queer food all year! Join us for this event that brings together the Queer Food Foundation, the James Beard Foundation, and the editors of Queers at the Table as we reflect on the meaning of queer food.
Special guests include Queers at the Table contributors Cori DaCosta, Vanessa Parish, Kareem Queeman, in addition to co-editors Alex D. Ketchum and Megan J. Elias.
Register at: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_pe9BZ1jITPiI8gIuLcuQlg#/registration
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- March 5, 2026: Eat Out Supper Club and Queers at the Table at the Three Dollar Bill
Join us at Toronto's LGBTQ+ bar the Three Dollar Bill. We will be discussing our book Queers at the Table. Book contributors Aino Philak, Tobi Abdul, and Danielle Kydd will join editors Alex D. Ketchum and Megan J. Elias to discuss queer food. Eat Out Supper Club will cater a beautiful meal, literally bringing us all to the table.
Entrance to the bar is free, but you need to register and pre-pay in advance for the meal if you want to eat. Drinks with and without alcohol will be available all night at the bar.
Register at: (link to come soon)
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- March 10, 2026: Sharing our Work: Queer Food and Publishing Workshop (From Zine to Press)
On March 10, 2026 at 6 PM ET, join us for a hybrid workshop.
Taking place at SKOL Centre (and online), we will discuss how to create and publish your work. We will focus specifically on publications related to queer food, but the strategies discussed will be applicable more broadly.
During the first part of the workshop, Clare Lagomarsino, the founder of the small publisher Combos Press (which publishes Queer Earth Food) will talk about publishing queer work about food (and beyond). Editors of Queers at the Table, Alex D. Ketchum and Megan J. Elias will also speak about working with trade publishers (such as Arsenal Pulp Press, which published Queers at the Table) and touch on how working with trade publishers differs than university presses. Bonnie J. Morris will speak about writing for different kinds of publications.
During the second part of the workshop Jackson Tucker will speak about creating zines and self publishing. Attendees will then be guided through zine creation.
In-person attendees will be able to visit SKOL Centre's exhibition about Montreal's LGBTQ+ bookstore L'Androgyne (1973-2002).
Register at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sharing-our-work-queer-food-and-publishing-workshop-from-zine-to-press-tickets-1978432854927?aff=oddtdtcreator
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- March 17, 2026: Queer Food Access, in collaboration with Right To Food's Indigenous Network, including Raymond Johnson-Brown, 12- 1:30 PM ET (free, virtual event)
On March 17, 2026, join us as we discuss queer food access. This event is a collaboration between Right to Food's Indigenous Network and Queers at the Table contributors including Sal Dhalla, Danielle Rousseau, and editors Alex D. Ketchum and Megan J. Elias.
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- April 1, 2026: Queer and Trans Farming: From Seed to Field, with La Ferme aux Champs qui Chantent, 6 PM ET
Special guests include Queers at the Table contributors Chris Keeve, K Greene, Taylor Hartson, and farmer Jenna Jacobs of La Ferme aux Champs qui Chantent.
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- April 11, 2026: Vernissage for the Montréal Queer Food and Drink History Exhibit at the Archives gaies du Québec (free, in person at the AGQ: 2001A-1000 Atateken Montreal). From 2-5 PM ET.
Special guests include co-curators Alex D. Ketchum and Al Dervisevic, walking tour co-curator Kerrilee Corrimer, and more!
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- May 1-3, 2026: Queer Food Conference!
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- June 26, 2025: Queers at the Table: Coming Together, in collaboration with the Museum of Food and Drink (MOFAD), 6-9 PM ET (ticketed, in-person event): get tickets here!
Queers at the Table: Coming Together will feature a panel with queer food historians Megan J. Elias and Alex D. Ketchum, joined by writers, artists, activists, and food industry professionals Isabel Barbosa, Ericka Mabrie, and Rani Som. We’ll be showcasing and celebrating queer forms in its multiplicity, along with food, drinks, and a lively panel. Ticket includes access to Flavor: The World to Your Brain from 6 to 7 PM, bites made by Pri Aguilar, and drinks.
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- September 9, 2025: Queers at the Table: Eating, Talking, and Writing, in collaboration with Oxford Food Symposium (free, virtual event) at 12 PM ET
Special guests include Taylor Hartson, Joshua Lopez, Mihael B. Peralta, in addition to co-editors Alex D. Ketchum and Megan J. Elias.
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- September 23, 2025: Queer Food as Queer and Trans Joy, in collaboration with Queer & Joyful Worldmaking Lab and Queer Joy Lab, 6:00-7:30 PM ET (free, virtual event)
Queer food nourishes queer and trans joy. Join contributors to Queers at the Table, Tara Madison Avery, Rani Som, Aino Pihlak, and Tobi Abdul, alongside Queers at the Table editors Alex D. Ketchum and Megan J. Elias, as they discuss queer food and queer and trans joy. How does food nourish queer and trans joy? How have the contributors celebrated queer and trans joy through their essays, comics, and recipes in Queers at the Table? The conversation will be facilitated by JJ Wright of the Queer Joy Lab and Casey Burkholder of the Queer & Joyful Worldmaking Lab.
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- September 30, 2025: New Books on Queer Food, in collaboration with Queer History Month McGill, 6:00-7:30 PM ET (free, virtual event)
Get the link for this free, virtual event here:
This event will consist of a roundtable discussion about queer food, publishing, and the speakers' recently released books! This discussion will be followed by a period of audience Q and A.
Over the past year, there have been 5 new books published/ soon to be published on queer food. Historian Rachel Hope Cleves’ Lustful Appetites (2025) historicizes queer food across centuries. Kyla Wazana Tompkins’ Deviant Matter: Ferment, Intoxicants, Jelly, Rot (2024) uses the lenses of fermentation, intoxification, gelatinousness, and putrefaction to theorize how the modern state seeks to manage “deviant populations.” John Birdsall’s What is Queer Food (2025) examines how modern queer identity is shaped by food cultures and Erik Piepenburg’s Dining Out (2025) shares the history of gay restaurants. With 38 contributors, Alex D. Ketchum and Megan J. Elias co-edited the anthology, Queers at the Table (coming out in October 2025) on queer food that brings together scholars, journalists, cartoonists, recipe developers, chefs, farmers, and cooks discussing queer food within the themes of ecology, farming, health, care, community, and history. These books join the release of the independent press, Combo Press's, small print runs of three anthology volumes of Queer, Earth, Food (2022, 2023, 2024), another anthology Playing in the Dirt: A Gathering of Stories, Arts, and Writing by Queer Midwestern Farmers (2024), and the queer food memoir Squelch (2024).
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- October 9, 2025: Book Launch Party Canada: Bringing Queers to the Table, in collaboration with (and at) L'Euguélionne Feminist Bookstore in Montreal, 6:00-8:00 PM ET (free, in-person event)
Join us at L'Euguélionne Feminist Bookstore to celebrate the launch of Queers at the Table. The event will consist of a reading, snacks, and a Q&A period. Special guests include Queers at the Table contributors Tristian Lee, Danielle Kydd, and Lauren McGowan, in addition to co-editor Alex D. Ketchum.
This event is part of a series of events celebrating the topic of queer food, the release of Queers at the Table, and the upcoming second Queer Food Conference (www.queerfoodconference.com) from May 1-3, 2026. Learn about our upcoming events at queerfoodconference.com under the additional events tab.
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- October 15, 2025: Minneapolis, MN, free in-person event, Blue Delliquanti will be in conversation with Low, speaking about Queers at the Table at Magers & Quinn Bookstore at 7 PM CT
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- November 2, 2025: Cooking the Queers at the Table Book with the Drawn and Quarterly Cookbook Club, in collaboration with Drawn and Quarterly Bookstore in Montreal (free, in-person event) at 6:30 PM
Special guests include Queers at the Table contributors Tristian Lee, Danielle Kydd, and Lauren McGowan, in addition to co-editor Alex D. Ketchum.
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- November 5, 2025: Book Launch Party USA: Queers at the Table, in collaboration with All She Wrote Books of Somerville, Massachusetts, 6:30- 8:00 PM ET (5 dollar fundraiser, in-person event).
Special guests include Queers at the Table contributors Danielle Rousseau and Jo Michael Rezes, in addition to co-editors Megan J. Elias and Alex D. Ketchum.
This event will be a fundraiser for Connexion Meal, where food builds community, community creates connection, and Connexion changes lives. They provide hundreds of hot meals each week to the East Somerville community and beyond.
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- November 6, 2025: Boston University: Queers at Table (HYBRID), 6 PM-7 PM ET
Join the co-editors, Alex D. Ketchum and Megan J. Elias and anthology contributors Jennifer Park, Danielle Rousseau, Jo Michael Rezes for a discussion of Queers at the Table and the importance of acknowledging queer food. This anthology was developed out of the first Queer Food Conference (QFC) held at Boston University (BU) in Spring 2024. Queer food from Diesel/Forge will be served, and books will be available for purchase.
Learn more at:
Hybrid Event: In-Person and On Zoom, In-Person Location: Grace-Pepin Culinary Laboratory, 808 Commonwealth Ave.
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- November 7, 2025: Queers at the Table in NYC! in collaboration with Archestratus Bookstore of Brooklyn, NY (in-person event), 6 PM to 8 PM ET
Special guests include Queers at the Table contributors K Greene, Ericka Mabrie, Pri Aguilar, and Rani Som, in addition to co-editors Megan J. Elias and Alex D. Ketchum.
This ticketed event comes can come with a copy of the book. There is also an option to just attend the event.
Please register in advance at:
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- November 9, 2025: Queer Soup Night in Brooklyn, 5 PM to 8 PM ET
Queer Soup Night returns this fall with a special book party celebrating Queers at the Table: An Illustrated Guide to Queer Food with Recipes, edited by Alex D. Ketchum and Megan J. Elias.
It's the Queer Soup Night you know and love with a literary twist.
Soups and treats by cookbook contributors Ericka Mabrie, Isabel Marie Barbosa, Pri Aguilar, and Rani Som plus Eater's Nat Belkov (and the editors Alex and Megan). Vegan and gluten free options will be available, as always. Purchase your book in advance (suggested!) or pick one up on site. Cash bar open.
$15-20 suggested soup donation but no one turned away for lack of funds. 100% of soup proceeds go to the Nonbinarian Bookstore, a trans+ led volunteer-powered exclusively queer bookstore & community space, carrying new, used, & free books, gifts, & resources.
Be in community this fall, with queers, soup and books.
Register at:
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- December 1, 2025: Queer Food and HIV/AIDS: A World AIDS Day Event in collaboration with AIDS Community Care Montreal, 12:00-1:30 PM ET (free, virtual event)
On December 1, 2025, we will be hosting Queer Food and HIV/AIDS: A World AIDS Day Event in collaboration with AIDS Community Care Montreal. This event will consist of a roundtable discussion about food, LGBTQ+ communities, and HIV/AIDS. This discussion will be followed by a period of audience Q and A.
Special guests include Queers at the Table contributors Elena Kalodner-Martin, Jo Michael Rezes, Isabel Barbosa, Dave Davenport, in addition to co-editors Alex D. Ketchum and Megan J. Elias. Additional special guests include journalist Jon Kauffman and Crystal Harrison of AIDS Community Care Montreal.
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These past events accompanied the first edition of the Queer Food Conference on April 27-April 28, 2024.
On March 13, 2024 we partnered with the Oxford Food Symposium's Kitchen Table Series. Sign up to join us at this free, virtual event: https://www.oxfordsymposium.org.uk/event/kitchen-table-mar-2024
After the conference activities wrapped up on the Saturday evening of the 2024 conference, participants could us at an after hours, A Queer Wine Night Out, curated by Marie-Louise Friedland. The event was in-person only at Wild Child in Somerville and requires separate 10$ registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/queer-food-conference-mixer-tickets-830580607957?aff=oddtdtcreator.
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After the 2024 conference wrapped up on Sunday evening, participants had dinner at the High Street Hall with the Big Queer Food Fest!
That event required a separate ticket.
https://bigqueerfoodfest.com/pages/bostonOut and proud chefs and brands from across New England and beyond are serving up a delicious array of bites and cocktails. Music and entertainment will keep the party going all evening long! This evening coincides with the end of the first-ever Queer Food Conference, creating a powerful synergy between food, celebration, and education.
Chefs include Tiffani Fasion, Kareem Queeman, Karen Akunowicsz, Tatiana Rosana, Robert Gonzalez, Michele Ragussis, and more!
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