The Guilty Feminist Redux: Period Poverty with Jen Brister, Gemma Cairney, Amika George, Grace Campbell

The Guilty Feminist

The Spontaneity Shop

Comedy, Feminism

4.8 • 12.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

The Guilty Feminist Redux: Period Poverty

Presented by Deborah Frances-White and Jen Brister with special guests Gemma Cairney, Amika George, Grace Campbell

Recorded 4 December 2017 at Kings Place in London. Originally released 11 December.

The Guilty Feminist theme composed by Mark Hodge.

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More about Jen Brister

http://www.jenbrister.co.uk
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More about Gemma Cairney

http://www.gemmacairney.co.uk
https://twitter.com/gemcairn
https://www.instagram.com/gemagain

More about Amika George

https://www.freeperiods.org
https://www.change.org/p/theresa-may-mp-free-menstrual-products-for-all-children-on-free-school-meals-freeperiods
https://twitter.com/amikageorge

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https://www.facebook.com/thepinkprotest
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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hallag guilty feminist, this is Deborah.
0:01.4	We have another rerun for you this week.
0:03.3	And we'll be back next week with another brand new episode.
0:06.5	Enjoy.
0:07.9	I'm a feminist, but I changed one of my friends' names in my phone to John Hamm as a joke.
0:16.7	And I haven't changed it back because I like the thrill I get whenever it comes through.
0:21.7	So I can pretend he's texting me and I'm his girlfriend.
0:28.7	I'm a feminist, but the night I got a lift home from a celebrity singer
0:33.3	and he asked me if I was single.
0:36.5	And I said no
0:37.7	and he said
0:39.0	your boyfriend's a lucky guy
0:41.6	my first thought was
0:43.7	oh my God
0:45.3	I think this celebrity singer
0:47.4	fancies me
0:48.2	and my second thought was
0:50.9	oh my God
0:52.4	this will make a great anecdote and my third thought was, oh my God, this will make a great anecdote.
0:56.5	And my third thought was, oh my God, I completely forgot my girlfriend is sitting in the backseat
1:03.1	watching this exchange.
1:07.2	And I haven't corrected him. Oh well, never mind.
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