Hi, podleters. How are you? I hope you're well. This week's episode is very special as it was recorded on International Women's Day at the Bealavard Theatre in Soho.

And my guest is Bell Ribeiro Adi, who is Shaddo Immigration Officer and the new Labour MP for Strassem.

The question is when does politics become a feminist issue? And I absolutely love talking to Bell about this.

I feel like it was so insightful and super interesting and we also had some fantastic questions from the audience who were there.

So I really hope you enjoy it and as always, please do rate, review and subscribe. Bye!

How are you all doing? You good?

Thank you so much for coming to join us.

I am joined by the wonderful Bell Ribeiro Adi. Can we please have a big round of applause for Bell?

Hi everybody. Hello.

So in today's episode, we're going to be talking about when does politics become a feminist issue, which is kind of a rhetorical question.

Because I think we all kind of know in the stage that it's always a feminist issue.

And I have the amazing Bell with me, but if you don't know who she is, I'm going to ask her to introduce herself and what she does.

So I am the new Labour Member of Parliament for Strassem. Just selected someone for Strassem, yeah.

Just selected in December. We were just talking about how that wasn't really that long ago.

I'm also the Shadow Immigration Minister for the Labour Party.

It's great. I get to represent the area where I was born and raised.

For those of you that don't know, Strassem actually covers Brixton Hill, Tolls Hill, Ballon and Clapham Common as well.

Amazing. So I guess International Women's Day is an interesting one.

I feel like we've learned about it a lot more recently because there's a lot of brands kind of co-opting it and turning it into something that it's not really about.

It's kind of about pushing women forwards so that we have equal rights, equal opportunities, etc.

But what I wanted to ask you is feminism can be a bit of a conflicting term, not to have different ideas about what it means to them.

Do you have a way that you define feminism personally?

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