460. ROAD TO GILEAD: Making Our Voices Heard with Jessica Fosekew, Baroness Barker and Monica Ferro

The Guilty Feminist

The Spontaneity Shop

Comedy

4.9 • 12.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2025

⏱️ 95 minutes

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The Guilty Feminist 460. Making Our Voices Heard Presented by Deborah Frances-White and Jessica Fostkew with special guests Baroness Barker and Monica Ferro Recorded 16 November 2025 at The Museum of Comedy. Released 8 December. The Guilty Feminist theme composed by Mark Hodge. Get Deborah’s new book with 30% off using the code SIXCONVERSATIONSPOD https://store.virago.co.uk/products/six-conversations-were-scared-to-have Amnesty International is the world’s largest grassroots human rights organisation, working tirelessly to expose human rights abuses, hold power to account, and campaign for a fairer, safer world. We stand stronger together. Join the Amnesty International community and support their work exposing truth, debunking narratives, confronting perpetrators, defending truth-tellers and equipping communities with evidence to demand change: https://donate.giveasyoulive.com/campaign/amnesty-guilty-feminist-november-2025 More about Deborah Frances-White https://deborahfrances-white.com https://www.instagram.com/dfdubz https://www.virago.co.uk/titles/deborah-frances-white/six-conversations-were-scared-to-have/9780349015811 https://www.virago.co.uk/titles/deborah-frances-white/the-guilty-feminist/9780349010120 More about Jessica Fostekew https://www.instagram.com/jessicafostekew More about Baroness Liz Barker https://members.parliament.uk/member/2501/contact https://www.instagram.com/p/DGQqvX3i7ZE More about Monica Ferro https://www.instagram.com/monicaferrounfpa To fight for change, we need you. Donate today and power us into 2026. https://ayzqzzms.donorsupport.co/page/buildhope For more information about this and other episodes… visit https://www.guiltyfeminist.com tweet us https://www.twitter.com/guiltfempod like our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/guiltyfeminist check out our Instagram https://www.instagram.com/theguiltyfeminist or join our mailing list http://www.eepurl.com/bRfSPT More Big Speeches workshops now available https://guiltyfeminist.com/big-speeches/ Come to a live show Museum of Comedy: Friday 13 Feb, Friday 20 Feb, Thursday 5 March. Tickets on sale soon. Thank you to our amazing Patreon supporters. To support the podcast yourself, go to https://www.patreon.com/guiltyfeminist You can also get an ad-free version of the podcast via Apple Podcasts. The Guilty Feminist is part of The AudioPlus Network. If you’d like to work with us, please get in touch at hello@weareaudioplus.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:29.7	I'm a feminist, but even though we've been friends for I think about 10 years, I've only just
0:34.0	tonight on my way here realized that your name, Deborah, rhymes of Zebra.
0:43.1	I just giggled on the train.
0:45.1	I've got, bless you, I've got a law degree,
0:48.2	but I've spent a 25-minute train journey in
0:53.1	going, Deborah rhymes of zebra. zebra. I'm alone. I'm going to need to see that law degree, to be honest. I'm going to need to see the certificate up close. I got it from the same shop as Sherry Blair. The same shop? Well, uni. Oh, okay. I was going to say, Prontoprint.
1:11.4	Yeah.
1:12.3	I was like, Cherry Blow, I'll be furious if you say that.
1:14.7	One of my nieces calls me Auntie Zebra.
1:17.0	Got it.
1:17.6	Love that.
1:18.6	Deborah, the Zebra.
1:18.9	She did when she was little.
1:20.4	Okay, yeah.
1:21.2	She's more of it.
1:22.7	She's more tweenie.
1:24.0	She's in her 30s.
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