The One Where I Talk To Assistant Professor & Singles Researcher, Ea Utoft

Send us Fan MailIn 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.Follow Ea on Twitter:@eautoftFollow Ea on Blue Sky:@eautoftFollow Ea on Instagram:@eaeffieEmail Ea:[email protected] Support the showBuy my book, SHINY HAPPY SINGLES (UK) / THRIVE SOLO (US & Canada) at: https://www.lucymeggeson.com/bookJoin my membership community for single women, Thrive Solo: https://www.lucymeggeson.com/thrivesoloDownload my FREE PDF 'Top 10 Comebacks for the MostAnnoying Questions Single Women Get Asked' Go to: https://www.lucymeggeson.com/comebacksCheck out my YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@thrivesolowithlucymeggeson Join my private Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1870817913309222/?ref=shareFollow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thrivesolowithlucymeggeson/Email me: [email protected] And thank you so much for listening!