Joeli Brearley on maternity discrimination, brutal childcare costs and online hate

Dirty Mother Pukka with Anna Whitehouse

Heart

Kids & Family, Parenting

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

If you’ve ever been fooked over at work for daring to have a baby, this one’s for you. Campaigner and founder of the charity Pregnant Then Screwed (but we're a podcast, so we're using the original name Pregnant Then Fucked), joins us to discuss why childcare is on the brink of collapse, the shocking stories of maternity discrimination she's dealt with and how women are now choosing to abort wanting pregnancies because they can't afford the costs. She also talks about how campaigning for vulnerable women took a toll on her mental health and the online abuse she's faced. Original music by Matt J Brown at WeAreOK.com

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0:00.0	This is a Global Player Original podcast.
0:10.0	All right lads.
0:17.6	Actually just two really tired women.
0:20.3	Knackett old girls.
0:21.5	Nacket old goats.
0:23.0	Anna White House here.
0:24.3	The founder of Motherpucker, welcome to Dirty Motherpucker.
0:27.1	This is the podcast that centers feminism with a little twist of filth.
0:30.5	And my twist of filth sat right opposite me, Polly.
0:33.4	So filthy.
0:34.8	Again, I really want to reiterate that we are the least filthy people to be hosting a podcast called Dirty Motherpucker.
0:42.0	What's the dirtiest thing you've done this week?
0:43.6	Ooh, probably cleaned out some congealed fat from one of those baking trays.
0:50.0	Oh, I'll keep talking.
0:51.1	Yeah, I know.
0:52.4	I scraped off that.
0:53.0	I unclogged the shower with all the hair.
0:55.8	Oh, God.
0:53.9	Good one for the team. That's my worst job of all. So anyway, Polly takes the dirty beer. I'm going to take the feminism today. Yeah. So every morning that I get my girls out of bed and we have a little sort of chit chat in the morning. and I feel like I'm raising them to be pretty flipping great feminists.
0:55.2	Okay, so I'm raising them up.
1:28.1	You can do anything. You can be anyone, even though, as I told you the other week, my daughter responded by going, oh, you're going to say that thing again. I can do anything, be anyone. Yes, actually, it's taken quite a lot to get you there, Emily Pankhurst, FYI. But I feel like I'm really building them up and I play a good feminist game when it comes to parenting.
1:34.1	Where it takes a turn is, I'm going to put it on the table, had thrashed the other week in the heat wave.
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