Thrive Solo
Thrive Solo
Lucy Meggeson
The One Where I Talk To Assistant Professor & Singles Researcher, Ea Utoft
1 hour 8 minutes Posted Jan 23, 2024 at 1:00 am.
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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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@eautoft

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Follow Ea on Instagram:
@eaeffie

Email Ea:
[email protected] 

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