Spinsterhood Reimagined
Are you single, childfree, and tired of the stigma attached to your 'spinster' status? Are you actually having an awesome time, loving your life because of the freedoms afforded to you as a result of being alone and not having kids? Or are you not quite there yet? Either way, this is for you.
This is the podcast where we're going to reclaim the word spinster, where we're going to redefine what the word means, and where we're going to reimagine the outdated narrative around spinsterhood.
Because the truth - the big secret that no-one seems to realise or acknowledge - is that, actually, being a spinster rocks. This podcast will also look at the subject of personal growth and how, as spinsters, we have the luxury of being able to spend time becoming the people we truly want to be; the best versions of ourselves. Because, after all, isn't that what we all want?
Every week I'll release either a 'solo' episode in which I'll ruminate on the many different aspects of being single and childfree - and why they get to be brilliant - such as holidaying alone, living alone, identity, finding your purpose, being an auntie, freedom, opportunity and much, much more; or an episode with an array of fantastic guests with whom I'll be having interesting, inspirational and insightful conversations around the same themes.
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Spinsterhood Reimagined
The One Where I Talk To Writers Joan DelFattore & Christina Campbell
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In this week's episode, I talk to writers Joan DelFattore & Christina Campbell.
Joan DelFattore writes about living a single life in a world geared towards couples. Following her own experience of discrimination against being single in relation to her own cancer treatment, Joan wrote a peer-reviewed article that was published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2019, showing that patients with cancer are more likely to receive surgery or radiotherapy if they're currently married than if they're divorced, separated, widowed, or never married.
Previous guest, Christina, writes about invisible illness, singles’ rights, and the inexorable onslaught of entropy. After earning her Master of Fine Arts in Creative Nonfiction from George Mason University, Christina co-founded the singles’ advocacy blog, Onely. The site deconstructs cultural stereotypes about single hood, such as the myth that unmarried people die alone, eaten by their cats!
Topics that Joan, Christina & I cover are
- Joan’s Tedx talk, ‘Sick While Single? Don’t Die of Discrimination’, and what prompted her to do it;
- how her research unearthed the systematic under treatment of single people;
- Joan’s 2019 article, Death by Stereotype, that was published in the New England Journal of Medicine;
- how many physicians can’t get their heads around a set up that isn’t family-based;
- Christina’s thoughts around the cultural expectation that people will automatically receive all the support they need from a spouse;
- the hesitation she sometimes feels around asking friends for help as a single woman;
- how Christina’s chronic tick-borne disease has often be misunderstood and even, at times, disbelieved;
- the discrimination Christina faces with regards her healthcare as a single woman;
- how she went to see a psychologist due to her ‘abnormality’ with regards not wanting to get married;
- Joan and Christina’s thoughts and advice around going through illness as a single;
Christina’s Website:
www.christinadc.com
Contact Christina:
www.onely.org
Email Joan at:
jdel4444@gmail.com
Joan’s Website:
joandelfattore.com
Joan’s Tedx Talk - Sick While Single? Don’t Die Of Discrimination:
https://www.ted.com/ta
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