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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