Welcome back to A Seat At The Table with Spare Ribs Club!

In this podcast, creator of Spare Ribs Club Alex Holker talks to guests about their dream feminist dinner party. From their 3 feminist guests, the 3 tunes that will be on repeat all evening, and the 3 courses being served, this podcast brings together conversations around feminism, music and food.

In this episode, Alex talks to Joke Amusan. Joke is a German-Nigerian textile artist based in London. Her art practice highlights the experiences and complex beauty of what it means to be a Black woman – through the exploration of identity and heritage. Joke’s art pieces are conversational, encouraging women to come together to share their stories and to embrace who they are unapologetically. She strives to help build community by bringing people together and sharing space together through her creative workshops. Her work has been exhibited in the UK, USA, Germany, and Switzerland. In 2022 she was nominated for the “Female Founder” award in The Independent Awards, and in 2023 she was a finalist in The Ingram Prize.

We discuss Joke's dream feminist dinner party, starting with a wonderful guest list; writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, artist Carrie Mae Weems and activist Malala Yousafzai. Set against a soundtrack of Little Simz, Cleo Sol and Andra Day, they start with summer rolls with peanut dipping sauce, followed by jollof rice, plantain and chicken, and finishing with apfelstrudel. We discuss how her feminism intersects with her work as an artist and her identity as a Black woman.

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Welcome back to A Seat At The Table with Spare Ribs Club!

In this podcast, creator of Spare Ribs Club Alex Holker talks to guests about their dream feminist dinner party. From their 3 feminist guests, the 3 tunes that will be on repeat all evening, and the 3 courses being served, this podcast brings together conversations around feminism, music and food.

In this episode, Alex talks to Dr Helen King. Helen is Professor Emerita of Classical Studies at the Open University with an academic career spanning over two decades. Her work delves into the intersections of history, medicine, and gender. Helen’s upcoming book, Immaculate Forms: Uncovering the History of Women's Bodies, is a groundbreaking exploration of how women's bodies have been perceived throughout history. Helen’s interdisciplinary work bridges the gap between health professionals and historians, shedding light on how historical perspectives can enrich our understanding of modern medical practices. Her influence extends beyond academia, with her public engagement efforts including storytelling, educational events, and insightful blogging on topics ranging from ancient Greek medicine to the history of pain.

We discuss Helen's dream feminist dinner party, starting with a fabulous guest list; 12th century medical practitioner Trota of Salerno, 19th century nurse and social reformer Florence Nightingale, and preacher and suffragist Maude Royden. Set against a soundtrack of Hildegard of Bingen, Florence Price and Fleur Stevenson, they start with figs and ricotta, followed by seven hour slow-roasted lamb with roasted vegetables, and finishing with fresh seasonal fruit and marrons glacés, served with a Tokaji dessert wine. We discuss how her feminism intersects with women's health, ancient medical history, and her Christianity.

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Welcome to A Seat At The Table with Spare Ribs Club!

In this podcast, creator of Spare Ribs Club Alex Holker talks to guests about their dream feminist dinner party. From their 3 feminist guests, the 3 tunes that will be on repeat all evening, and the 3 courses being served, this podcast brings together conversations around feminism, music and food.

In this episode, Alex talks to Yulin Kuang. Yulin is an LA-based award-winning screenwriter and director. She was born in Guangzhou, China and quickly uprooted first to the flat plains of Wichita, Kansas and then to various suburbs of New Jersey, where she wrote a lot of Harry Potter fanfiction and became obsessed with telling kissing stories. She is currently adapting and directing Emily Henry’s novel, Beach Read, for 20th Century. She previously also adapted Henry’s People We Meet On Vacation for Temple Hill and 3000 Pictures. Yulin’s own debut novel, How to End a Love Story, will be published in April 2024 through Avon.

We discuss Yulin's dream feminist dinner party, starting with a fabulous guest list; journalist and writer Nora Ephron, director and playwright Celine Song, and novelist Elizabeth Gaskell. Set against a soundtrack of Rex Orange County, Billy Joel and The Highwomen, they start with a cucumber salad and a Los Feliz Iced Tea from Home on Hillhurst, which features a chai-infused scotch component, followed by Chrissy Teigen's Spicy Miso Carbonara, paired with the Francis Coppola 2020 Claret, and Prantl's Burnt Almond Torte, which was her wedding cake, served with decaf coffee. We discuss how her feminism intersects with her writing and the romance genre, and her past and current projects.

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Welcome to A Seat At The Table with Spare Ribs Club!

In this podcast, creator of Spare Ribs Club Alex Holker talks to guests about their dream feminist dinner party. From their 3 feminist guests, the 3 tunes that will be on repeat all evening, and the 3 courses being served, this podcast brings together conversations around feminism, music and food.

In this episode, Alex talks to Harriet Williams. Harriet is a Deputy Leader of the Women's Equality Party and an active member of the Camden Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) Board. Her involvement in this board (established in 2022) came about in response to an inquiry led by the Camden Women's Forum to address VAWG in Camden. As a founder, Harriet operates independently as a Young Parent Consultant. She is a single parent to a daughter, a role that she views as both extraordinary and challenging. This unique aspect of her life further underscores her commitment to advocating for women's equality. She co-authored the Young Parents in London: Living with Precariousness report (2018) for Partnership for Young London and 4in10; a campaigning network of 400 London organisations working to improve the lives of the 4 in 10 children living in poverty in the capital. She also supported Barnardo’s on their Care-Experienced Parents Unite for Change report (2022) which was formed because parents’ voices were largely absent in a lot of Barnardo’s research.

We discuss Harriet's dream feminist dinner party, starting with a formidable guest list; Afghan politician, writer, and women's rights activist Fawzia Koofi, American singer-songwriter Nina Simone, and Tusaiwe Munkhondiya, the founder of non-profit organisations Empowering Young Mothers and You Are Not Alone in Malawi. Set against a soundtrack of Darryl Farris,

Etta James and Brandon Lake, they start with mutton rolls, followed by pounded yam, okra and stew, and finishing with banana fitters and pistachio ice cream. We discuss how her feminism intersects with her activism, and her past and current projects.

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Welcome to A Seat At The Table with Spare Ribs Club!

In this podcast, creator of Spare Ribs Club Alex Holker talks to guests about their dream feminist dinner party. From their 3 feminist guests, the 3 tunes that will be on repeat all evening, and the 3 courses being served, this podcast brings together conversations around feminism, music and food.

In this episode, Alex talks to Kimberley McIntosh. Kim is a writer and researcher, with a focus on race and inequality. She has written for a range of publications including the Guardian, the Washington Post, the Independent, the Metro, i news gal-dem and Vice. Kimberly has discussed her research on BBC Radio 4 and 5 Live, BBC News and Sky News and worked on campaigns such as the Windrush Scandal. black girl, no magic is her first book.

We discuss Kim's dream feminist dinner party, starting with a fabulous guest list; broadcaster Clara Amfo, author James Baldwin and American academic Tressie McMillan Cottom. Set in a fantasy castle, against a soundtrack of Jacques Green, Teedra Moses and City Girls, they start with chargrilled octopus, followed by oxtail with rice, coleslaw and macaroni pie, and finishing with lemon posset. We discuss how her feminism intersects with her writing, and her past and current projects.

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Welcome to A Seat At The Table with Spare Ribs Club!

In this podcast, creator of Spare Ribs Club Alex Holker talks to guests about their dream feminist dinner party. From their 3 feminist guests, the 3 tunes that will be on repeat all evening, and the 3 courses being served, this podcast brings together conversations around feminism, music and food.

In this episode, Alex talks to Yasmin Ali. Yasmin is a chemical engineer, dedicated to developing renewable energy projects. Having worked in coal and gas fired power stations, oil and gas, district heating systems, and energy innovation, Yasmin transitioned away from fossil fuels into more sustainable energy systems over the course of her career. She has given over a hundred talks about engineering and energy, written for the BBC and Metro, featured in TV and radio programmes and completed a British Science Association Media Fellowship with the BBC's Science Unit. In recognition of her public engagement work, Yasmin has been awarded and shortlisted for multiple industry awards, including the 2020 Women's Engineering Society's top 50 female engineers in sustainability.

We discuss Yasmin's dream feminist dinner party, starting with a great guest list; writer and comedian Sandi Toksvig, scientist Ainissa Ramirez and science writer Lisa Margonelli. Set in space next to the International Space Station, against a soundtrack of King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, Boiler Room Beiruit DJs and Aphex Twin, they start with humous, baba ganoush and bread, followed by Iraqi aubergine wrapped lamb kebabs in a tamarind and tomato sauce with rice, and finishing with baklava from Istanbul. We discuss how her feminism intersects with her work as a chemical engineer, and her past and current projects.

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Welcome to A Seat At The Table with Spare Ribs Club!

In this podcast, creator of Spare Ribs Club Alex Holker talks to guests about their dream feminist dinner party. From their 3 feminist guests, the 3 tunes that will be on repeat all evening, and the 3 courses being served, this podcast brings together conversations around feminism, music and food.

In this episode, Alex talks to Kemi Lawson. Kemi is a co-founder and creative director of The Cornrow, an Afrocentric home and lifestyle store which has featured in Elle Decoration, The Guardian, Telegraph, Red Magazine and Stylist. She is a collector of African and African diaspora stories and material treasures, working as a curator for the Museum of the Home on a Black Home installation. She has also collaborated with The National Trust and the Arts Fund on content regarding Black Homes, and has written articles on Afrocentric interior design for a range of magazines. Kemi, who is Black British with Jamaican and Nigerian heritage, traced her Caribbean ancestry to 1780, when her six times great grandmother Minerva survived the Middle Passage and arrived in Jamaica. Her home has been featured in media including the Guardian, Harper’s Bazaar, 25 Beautiful Homes, House Beautiful and The Sunday Times Style section. 

We discuss Kemi's dream feminist dinner party, starting with a fabulous guest list; British activist Olive Morris, Nigerian political activist Funmilayo Ransome Kuti, and Bess, Kemi's Jamaican three times great grandmother. Set in her dream home somewhere in Africa, against a soundtrack of Bob Marley, Brown Sugar and Tracy Chapman, they start with her sister Lara’s everything salad, followed by the tasting menu from Ikoyi Restaurant in London, and finishing with her mum's rice pudding. We discuss how her feminism intersects with her work in interior design, and the power of the home in feminist activism.

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Welcome to A Seat At The Table with Spare Ribs Club!

In this podcast, creator of Spare Ribs Club Alex Holker talks to guests about their dream feminist dinner party. From their 3 feminist guests, the 3 tunes that will be on repeat all evening, and the 3 courses being served, this podcast brings together conversations around feminism, music and food.

In this episode, Alex talks to Habiba Katsha. Habiba is a freelance journalist who writes about race, gender, beauty, and internet culture. She has written for publications such as Refinery29 UK, HuffPost UK, Gal Dem, inews, The Indy, and several others.

We discuss Habiba's dream feminist dinner party, starting with a legendary guest list; author Toni Morrison, the GOAT bell hooks, and political activist Angela Davis. Set in her home against a soundtrack of Sam Cooke, Marvin Gaye and Wizkid, they start with oxtail croquettes, followed by rice with pondu and salt fish, and finishing with sticky toffee pudding with icecream. We discuss how her feminism intersects with her work as a journalist, and her past and current projects.

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Welcome to A Seat At The Table with Spare Ribs Club!

In this podcast, creator of Spare Ribs Club Alex Holker talks to guests about their dream feminist dinner party. From their 3 feminist guests, the 3 tunes that will be on repeat all evening, and the 3 courses being served, this podcast brings together conversations around feminism, music and food.

In this episode, Alex talks to Jennifer Savin. Jennifer is Cosmopolitan UK’s multiple award-winning Features Editor, who specialises in writing about issues most important to young women. She is best known for her investigative reports – many of which have seen her go undercover, for example to meet the ‘landlords’ offering free rent in exchange for sex – and ground-breaking features, such as her recent deep dive into the rise in abusers suing their survivors for speaking out, known as the ‘Depp effect’. She also heads up the Body content on the Cosmopolitan UK website, which includes mental health, body image, nutrition, fitness, pregnancy and more, and regularly writes about her own thorny mental health journey and experience of mindful drinking, inspired by spending 15 months entirely sober. Jennifer is also an author, equality campaigner (successfully helping to petition the government into making pills-by-post abortions a permanent option after the pandemic) and a documentary consultant, most recently working on – and appearing in – BBC Three’s ‘Deepfake Porn: Could You Be Next?’ as an image-based sexual abuse expert. 

We discuss Jennifer's dream feminist dinner party, starting with a wonderful guest list; Queen of England Anne Boleyn, former editor-in-chief of Cosmo magazine Helen Gurley Brown, and actress Meghan Markle, with an honourable mention to activist Marsha P Johnson. Set in an old castle in Greece against a soundtrack of Holly Humberstone, Courtney Love, and Fleetwood Mac, they start with baked camembert, bread and crudites, followed by the Vietnamese Veggie from Vietbox, and finishing with chocolate mousse served with a drizzle of olive oil. We discuss how her feminism intersects with her work as a journalist, and her past and current projects.

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Welcome to Series 3 of A Seat At The Table with Spare Ribs Club!

In this podcast series, creator of Spare Ribs Club Alex Holker talks to guests about their dream feminist dinner party. From their 3 feminist guests, the 3 tunes that will be on repeat all evening, and the 3 courses being served, this podcast brings together conversations around feminism, music and food.

In this episode, Alex talks to Mireille Harper. Mireille is an award-winning editor, writer, sensitivity/authenticity reader and communications consultant. She is the author of Timelines from Black History and a contributor to Timelines of Everyone, The Black History Book and Migrations. Her essay, ‘Why Passivity Will No Longer Do’ is published in Feminist Book Society’s anthology, This Is How We Come Back Stronger. Her writing has been published in British Vogue, GUAP, Nataal, Digital Spy, Good Housekeeping, PORT Magazine and more. Dedicated to supporting cultural, creative and community projects, Mireille is a trustee of Migrateful, And Other Stories, Africa Writes and Être Girls.

We discuss Mireille's dream feminist dinner party, starting with a wonderful guest list; American novelist Toni Morrison, political activist Assata Shakur, and singer and actress Eartha Kitt. Set in a snowy cottage against a soundtrack of Amy Winehouse, Pink Floyd and Groove Armada, they start with a Jamaican melange of starters, followed by a seafood feast with french fries, fennel and orange salad and garlic bread, and finishing with a chocolate melt in the middle pudding with butterscotch topping and salted caramel icecream. We discuss how her feminism intersect with her writing and her work as a sensitivity reader.

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Welcome to A Seat At The Table with Spare Ribs Club!

In this podcast series, creator of Spare Ribs Club Alex Holker talks to guests about their dream feminist dinner party. From their 3 feminist guests, the 3 tunes that will be on repeat all evening, and the 3 courses being served, this podcast brings together conversations around feminism, music and food.

In this episode, Alex talks to Monika Radojevic. Monika is a Brazilian-Montenegrin writer, award winning poet and women's rights advocate. In 2019, she became the inaugural winner of the Merky Books New Writers' prize for her poetry, and her debut collection, teeth in the back of my neck was published in 2021 with Penguin Random House. Her writing has been described as a "vital contribution to literature" by Huck Magazine and "courageous and arresting...a poet to watch" by the Independent. In 2022, Monika launched 'Feminist Invoicing', a poetry project and workshop series about power dynamics and what we're owed from systems of oppression. Her debut short story collection, 'A Beautiful Lack of Consequence' and debut novel, 'Strangerland' have just been acquired by Penguin, and will be published in 2025 and 2026 respectively.

We discuss Monika's dream feminist dinner party, starting with a wonderful guest list; artist Frida Kahlo, author Carmen Maris Machado, and writer Arundhati Roy. Set in Brazil against a soundtrack of Sergio Mendes, Taylor Swift, and Mika, they start with burrata soaked in olive oil and balsamic vinegar, basil and tomato, followed by beans, rice and Brazilian steak with a side of plantain cooked by her grandma, and finishing with a selection of the sweetest, ripest, juiciest, tropical fruit; mango, pineapple, papaya, watermelon, guava, and avocado. We discuss how her feminism and politics intersect her writing, and her upcoming short story collection and debut novel.

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Welcome to A Seat At The Table with Spare Ribs Club!

In this podcast series, creator of Spare Ribs Club Alex Holker talks to guests about their dream feminist dinner party. From their 3 feminist guests, the 3 tunes that will be on repeat all evening, and the 3 courses being served, this podcast brings together conversations around feminism, music and food.

In this episode, Alex talks to Ellen Miles. Ellen is an activist who roots for urban nature. She started the Nature is a Human Right campaign, and runs Hackney-based social enterprise Dream Green. She's written two books, been on BBC News, and has pissed off the Coca-Cola company. The Guardian have dubbed her "the new doyenne of guerrilla gardening"; she calls herself a "botanarchist".

We discuss Ellen's dream feminist dinner party, starting with a great guest list; English social reformer Octavia Hill, fashion designer Vivienne Westwood, and singer Amy Winehouse (with honourable mention Sinead O'Connor). Set against a soundtrack of Miso Extra, Pino D'Angio, and Omuma Singsiri, they start with foraged salad eaten in Greenham Common c. 1986, followed by one billionaire at random in space, c. now, and finishing with medjoul dates and watermelon in Gaza, c. 2025. We discuss Ellen's guerilla gardening, her work as a botanarchist, and how it intersects with her own feminism.

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Welcome to A Seat At The Table with Spare Ribs Club!

In this podcast series, creator of Spare Ribs Club Alex Holker talks to guests about their dream feminist dinner party. From their 3 feminist guests, the 3 tunes that will be on repeat all evening, and the 3 courses being served, this podcast brings together conversations around feminism, music and food.

In this episode, Alex talks to Winnie M Li. Winnie is an author and activist. Her latest novel Complicit draws from her earlier career in the film industry. It was a New York Times’ Editors’ Choice, shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature’s Encore Award, and listed among the Best Novels of 2022 by Grazia, Glamour, and The Irish Times. Her debut Dark Chapter won The Guardian’s Not The Booker Prize, was nominated for an Edgar Award, and translated into ten languages. She is currently adapting it for the screen. Driven by her own experience of rape, Winnie founded Clear Lines, the UK's first festival addressing sexual assault and consent through the arts, and began her PhD research at the London School of Economics. Winnie has given over 200 public talks and appeared on the BBC, Sky News, Channel 4, The Guardian, The Mail on Sunday, The Irish Times, BBC Women’s Hour, and TEDx London, among other media platforms. She holds an honorary doctorate of law from the National University of Ireland in recognition of her writing and activism.

We discuss Winnie's dream feminist dinner party, starting with a fantastic guest list; Frankenstein novelist Mary Shelley, writer and activist Maya Angelou, and famed Chinese pirate Ching Shih (Zheng Yi Sao). Set against a soundtrack of Tracey Chapman, Mozart, and Karen Carpenter, they start with nachos, followed by pad thai, finishing with cheesecake. We discuss Winnie's novels Complicit and Dark Chapter, her experience as a young woman in the film industry, and her PhD research.

TW: Sexual violence

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Welcome to A Seat At The Table with Spare Ribs Club!

In this podcast series, creator of Spare Ribs Club Alex Holker talks to guests about their dream feminist dinner party. From their 3 feminist guests, the 3 tunes that will be on repeat all evening, and the 3 courses being served, this podcast brings together conversations around feminism, music and food.

In this episode, Alex talks to Chloe Pierre. Chloe is the founder of disruptive wellness platform brand thy.self, which aims to diversify the wellness industry and make self-care more inclusive, relatable and more welcoming to black women, and author of book Take Care: The Black Women’s Guide to Wellness.

We discuss Chloe's dream feminist dinner party, starting with a wonderful guest list; writers and activists Maya Angelou and Audre Lorde, and Chloe's St Lucian great-grandmother. Set in her great-grandmother's home by the sea in St Lucia, against a soundtrack of Moonchild, SZA and Marvin Gaye, they start with ackee and avocado, followed by the best cacio e pepe known to man with a seasoned tender steak on the side, finishing with homemade apple crumble and ice cream. We discuss self care and how it intersects with feminism, Chloe's business thy.self, and how self care is a Black, feminist act.

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Welcome to A Seat At The Table with Spare Ribs Club!

In this podcast series, creator of Spare Ribs Club Alex Holker talks to guests about their dream feminist dinner party. From their 3 feminist guests, the 3 tunes that will be on repeat all evening, and the 3 courses being served, this podcast brings together conversations around feminism, music and food.

In this episode, Alex talks to Jyoti Patel. Jyoti is an author and winner of the 2021 #Merky Books New Writers’ Prize. An extract of her debut novel, "The Things That We Lost", was chosen as the winning submission from over 2,000 entries, a competition that aims to discover unpublished, underrepresented writers aged 16-30 from the UK and Ireland. Jyoti is a graduate of the University of East Anglia’s Creative Writing Prose Fiction MA and was selected as one of The Observer’s 10 Best New Novelists for 2023. Her writing has previously been published as part of We Present’s ‘Literally’ series and in the anthology for the 2022 Bristol Short Story Prize, for which she was shortlisted.

We discuss Jyoti's dream feminist dinner party, starting with a great guest list; British journalist and author Reni Eddo-Lodge, leader of the strikers in the 1976 Grunwick dispute Jayaben Desai, and the character Agnes from Hamnet. Set in Brasserie Bellenger in Paris, against a soundtrack of Billie Eilish, Lizzo and Beyonce, they start with idli and dosa with coconut chutney and sambal, followed by chilli paneer, dal makhani, garlic butter naan, and pilau rice, finishing with rasmalai and chai. We discuss Jyoti's writing, how it intersects with her personal feminism, and her debut novel.

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Welcome to A Seat At The Table with Spare Ribs Club!

In this podcast series, creator of Spare Ribs Club Alex Holker talks to guests about their dream feminist dinner party. From their 3 feminist guests, the 3 tunes that will be on repeat all evening, and the 3 courses being served, this podcast brings together conversations around feminism, music and food.

In this episode, Alex talks to Cathy Reay. Cathy is a writer covering disability politics and culture. She writes regularly for The Guardian and has also written for Glamour, Radio Times and The Independent. She's appeared on national and local radio and TV, on numerous live panels and talk shows, and contributed chapters about disability to three books this year, including Gina Martin's No Offence, But... . She has two children and lives near London. 

We discuss Cathy's dream feminist dinner party, starting with a fabulous guest list; actor Peter Dinklage and the authors and activists Alice Wong and Ericka Hart. Set in a restaurant by the ocean, against a soundtrack of Sigur Ros, Tracy Chapman and Sinead O'Connor, they start with a seafood platter, including oysters fried squid and gravadlax with fresh bread, followed by homemade pasta with pesto and mushrooms, finishing with beetroot chocolate cake and vanilla ice cream. We discuss Cathy's writing and activism, and what intersectionality means for her.

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Welcome to A Seat At The Table with Spare Ribs Club!

In this podcast series, creator of Spare Ribs Club Alex Holker talks to guests about their dream feminist dinner party. From their 3 feminist guests, the 3 tunes that will be on repeat all evening, and the 3 courses being served, this podcast brings together conversations around feminism, music and food.

In this episode, Alex talks to Prishita Maheshwari-Aplin. Prishita is a queer non-binary writer, editor, campaigner, and community organiser. Previously Politics Editor at BRICKS Magazine, they are committed to sharing community stories and amplifying the voices of marginalised individuals, with by-lines in Gay Times, gal-dem, Dazed, Metal, and Cosmopolitan, among others. Prishita has organised at the grassroots level with the LGBTQ+ community for years, now building on their campaigning as the Digital Mobilisation Lead at Stonewall. They also sit on the Advisory Board for sex-ed social enterprise, Split Banana, who deliver inclusive RSHE in schools and train educators. Prishita regularly speaks on podcasts and panels, and was featured in ‘Soul of a Movement’, a documentary that documents some of the British LGBTIQ+ activists, artists and allies carrying the revolutionary fire of the Stonewall Uprising today. With a degree in Biological Anthropology, Prishita approaches all their work through an expansive and historical lens. Their relationship with their body, themselves, and with others are rooted in, and informed by, their multi-cultural and migrant identity.

We discuss Prishita's dream feminist dinner party, starting with a guest list of icons; writer bell hooks, actor Miriam Margolyes, and music producer and songwriter SOPHIE. Set in Prishita's kitchen, against a soundtrack of Clara Schumann, X-Ray Spex, and SOPHIE, they start with a dirty gin martini and dim sum from Tofu Vegan, followed by masala dosa from Dasaprakash in Delhi, finishing with vegan pistachio gelato from La Gelateria. We discuss Prishita's queer and feminist activism, and what intersectionality means for them.

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Welcome to A Seat At The Table with Spare Ribs Club!

In this podcast series, creator of Spare Ribs Club Alex Holker talks to guests about their dream feminist dinner party. From their 3 feminist guests, the 3 tunes that will be on repeat all evening, and the 3 courses being served, this podcast brings together conversations around feminism, music and food.

In this episode, Alex talks to Mary O'Connell. Mary is an award winning silly billy, comedian and writer fresh off her sold out, critically acclaimed, debut solo hour 'Money Princess', which was named "Top 15 Must-See Comedy Shows 2023" by Rolling Stone, "Top 12 Rising Stars" by Evening Standard and called 'one of the most relatable shows of the fringe' by The Telegraph. Mary's performance style is a mix of observational annoyance combined with a left-field view of the world that makes for hilarious and often absurd material.

We discuss Mary's dream feminist dinner party, starting with a guest list of icons; comedian Mindy Kaling, singer Janis Joplin, and writer MJ Corey (a.k.a Kardashian Kolloquium). Set in an imagined townhouse, against a soundtrack of Alabama Shakes, Fleetwood Mac and Janis Joplin, they start with caviar on toast, followed by lasagne, finishing with pistachio and vanilla icecream. We discuss Mary's career, women in comedy, and money anxiety.

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Welcome to Episode 21 of A Seat At The Table with Spare Ribs Club!

In this podcast series, creator of Spare Ribs Club Alex Holker talks to guests about their dream feminist dinner party. From their 3 feminist guests, the 3 tunes that will be on repeat all evening, and the 3 courses being served, this podcast brings together conversations around feminism, music and food.

In this episode, Alex talks to Sunny Singh. Sunny is a writer, novelist and public intellectual, and widely recognised as a champion for decolonisation and inclusion across all aspects of society. Her books include the highly acclaimed novel Hotel Arcadia and an authoritative study of Amitabh Bachchan (2017) for the BFI’s film star series. Her essays, short stories, and columns are published worldwide in key journals, anthologies and media outlets. Her latest book, A Bollywood State of Mind will be published by Footnote Press in October. In 2016, she launched the celebrated Jhalak Prize for literature by writers of colour. She is also a founder of the Jhalak Foundation that is focused on a range of literary, artistic and literacy initiatives in the UK and beyond. She is Professor of Creative Writing and Inclusion in the Arts at the London Metropolitan University.

We discuss Sunny's dream feminist dinner party, starting with a guest list of icons; Indian revolutionary Lakshmi Sehgal, politician Indira Gandhi and Bollywood actress Zeenat Aman. Set in the Lodhi Gardens in New Delhi, against a soundtrack of 20th century Indian music, they start with galauti kebabs, followed by Malabar fish curry with the full accompaniments, finishing with a very special saffron and almond kheer. We discuss Sunny's writing, feminist activism and her fight for decolonisation.

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Welcome to Episode number 20 of A Seat At The Table with Spare Ribs Club, the second episode of the our second series!

In this podcast series, creator of Spare Ribs Club Alex Holker talks to guests about their dream feminist dinner party. From their 3 feminist guests, the 3 tunes that will be on repeat all evening, and the 3 courses being served, this podcast brings together conversations around feminism, music and food.

In this episode, Alex talks to Paris Paloma. Paris is a UK-based singer songwriter who channels the experience of womanhood into her songwriting, speaking to the female experience, and to the human experience at large, exploring themes of grief, love, death, and power. Her songwriting reads like poetry, drawing inspiration from figures throughout mythology, art history and the Romantics. Ranging from the tender and heartbreaking to the sublimely vengeful, her ethereal sound takes influences from dark pop, folk, and indie genres; creating a magical discography that evokes something primal, powerful, and innately feminine.

We discuss Paloma's dream feminist dinner party, starting with a guest list of icons; actor Sir Ian McKellen, director and screenwriter Greta Gerwig, and American feminist writer bell hooks (both popular choices on our podcast!). Set in a maximalist home, against a soundtrack of Loma, Hozier and Mitski, they start with steamed buns, followed by platters of sushi, finishing with tiramisu. We discuss Paris' songwriting, her emerging career in the music industry, and how feminism has influenced her music.

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