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

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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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