Welcome to Episode number 19 of A Seat At The Table with Spare Ribs Club, the first 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 Finn Mackay. Finn is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of the West of England, and they are the author of a new book from Bloomsbury; "Female Masculinities and the Gender Wars". Finn has a background in feminist activism, having founded the London Feminist Network and the revived London Reclaim the Night in 2004.

We discuss Finn's dream feminist dinner party, starting with a guest list of writers and activists; American feminist writers bell hooks and Kate Millett, and gender theorist Kate Bornstein. Set in an huge imagined home, against a soundtrack of La Roux, Gloria Gaynor and Candi Staton, they start with Pizza Express dough balls and tomato and mozzarella salad, followed by a vegetable lasagne and garlic bread, finishing with raspberry pavlova. We discuss Finn's radical feminism, their relationship with gender politics, their feminist parenting, and advice for younger feminists in 2023.

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