A Seat At The Table brings together feminism, female friendship and food. Every episode Alex invites guests to take us through their perfect feminist dinner party; 3 feminist icons as dinner guests, 3 courses, and 3 tunes being played on repeat.
Hosted by Alex Holker, the creator of Spare Ribs Club, an intersectional feminist book & supper club which explores feminism and social justice through literature, art, music and food.
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A Seat At The Table brings together feminism, female friendship and food. Every episode Alex invites guests to take us through their perfect feminist dinner party; 3 feminist icons as dinner guests, 3 courses, and 3 tunes being played on repeat.
Hosted by Alex Holker, the creator of Spare Ribs Club, an intersectional feminist book & supper club which explores feminism and social justice through literature, art, music and food.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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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