Thrive Solo The One Where I Talk To Assistant Professor & Singles Researcher, Ea Utoft
Jan 23, 2024
01:09:11
In this week’s episode, I’m talking to the fabulous Ea Utoft.
Ea is an Assistant Professor of Gender & Diversity Studies at Radboud University. Originally from Denmark, she currently lives in the Netherlands, and is single and childfree.
Topics that Ea & I cover are:
- how Ea is very comfortable with her singledom;
- how being single enables her to do certain things and allows her to be flexible;
- how Kinneret Lahad was the first person Ea ever heard actually asking questions about singlehood;
- how the isolation she felt as a single person during lockdown motivated her to tell a story that she felt wasn’t being told;
- how the first question that people ask Ea, and other singles, is often “Are you seeing anyone?”;
- ‘concern trolling’ and how it speaks to the stigma around being single;
- Ea’s experience of online dating and how she finds it exhausting;
- how people seem to feel entitled to ask about single women’s love lives;
- the ambivalence of singlehood and how it can be both good and bad at the same time;
- the word ’spinster’ and how it pertains to Ea’s love of, and fascination with, Jane Austen;
- what Ea loves the most about being single;
- some words of wisdom Ea heard from someone else that she shares with you.
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Email Ea:
ea.utoft@ru.nl
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