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/ 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