Cilla Raie on single parenting, maternity discrimination and singing her heart out

Dirty Mother Pukka with Anna Whitehouse

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Parenting, Kids & Family

4.9 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

This week's guest is the singer-songwriter Cilla Raie. She speaks about how the music industry pushes women and mothers out. (Over the past decade women make up just 12.7% of songwriters and only 2.8% of producers.) How this has to change and how all industries need to recognise this biological juncture. The leaking breasts, the postnatal depression, the separation anxiety. The reality of what your mind and body goes through when you leave your child to go back to work. This is a story about a woman singing her heart out in an industry that closes the door to women. Especially Black women. Original music by Matt J Brown at WeAreOK.com

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0:00.0	This is a Global Player Original podcast.
0:12.0	Welcome to Dirty Motherpucker.
0:14.4	I'm Anna Whitehouse, the founder of Motherpucker, and I'm joined by Polly Hayswood.
0:19.3	Hello, hello.
0:21.0	Hello. How are you doing?
0:22.4	Oh, very good, thanks.
0:23.8	Although I did have a terrible dream last night.
0:26.1	About what?
0:27.2	I don't know if I should say this out loud, but basically I was trapped in a house and a grizzly bear was trying to eat me.
0:34.8	And the only way I could get myself free was to have sex with the bear.
0:38.6	I don't know what that means,
0:40.1	but it was pretty full on.
0:42.5	You know how most people get really bored
0:44.6	hearing other people's dreams?
0:46.3	Yeah.
0:46.8	That's just traumatising.
0:47.9	I know, to be honest with you,
0:48.9	I've got to the point now where Sam,
0:50.0	when I wake up in the morning,
0:50.9	Sam would say to me, if I say, oh my God, oh my God, I've got to tell he's like, no, no, don't tell me, I don't want to know, I don't want to know, because they're so
0:57.5	dark normally, my dreams. So when you turned on in your dream?
1:01.3	Well, I was a little bit, end up having a relationship with a bear where he, basically, I decided that my life was still at risk and so the best way to keep this contract going
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