PODCAST AND RADIO APPEARANCES:

SOLO: The Single Person’s Guide to a Remarkable Life, hosted by Peter McGraw

–In the episode Self-Contained, Peter and Christina talk with author Emma John, who wrote the funny and insightful memoir Self-Contained: Scenes from a Single Life.

–In the episode Not Lonely: Onely, Peter, Christina, and Lisa talk about the history and mission of Onely.org, and CATS! –In the episode Great Onelers, Peter, Christina, and Lisa talk about Lisa’s great-uncle, a heroic hermit.

SPINSTERHOOD REIMAGINED, hosted by Lucy Meggeson

–In this episode, Lucy and Christina talk about relationship status discrimination, singles advocacy, and CATS!

–In this episode, Lucy and Christina talk with Joan DeFattore about chronic illness and relationship status and CATS. We focus on Joan’s New England Journal of Medicine article Death by Stereotype, about how she was denied medical care because of her single status.

WISCONSIN PUBLIC RADIO: 

–In the episode Single in the United States, Lisa and Christina discuss the financial penalties the U.S. federal government levies against unmarried people. 

PRINT MENTIONS:

In 2013, Lisa and Christina wrote an Atlantic article about how a single person can easily spend at least a million dollars more in their lifetime than their married peer, because of federal laws that privilege married people. The article has been widely cited over the past decade. Many of the publications listed below reference this article. 

SELECTED BOOK MENTIONS: 

All the Single Ladies, by Rebecca Traister

The Love Jones Cohort: Single and Living Alone in the Black Middle Class, by Dr. Kris Marsh

Happy Singlehood: The Rising Acceptance and Celebration of Solo Living, by Elyakim Kislev

Singlism: What It Is, Why It Matters, and How to Stop It, by Bella DePaulo, PhD

Going Solo: The Extraordinary Rise and Surpising Appeal of Living Alone, by Eric Kleinenberg

SELECTED MAGAZINE AND NEWSPAPER MENTIONS: 

Singles say they’re better prepared to self-quarantine, but many fear getting short-changed in medical treatment, by Joan DelFattore, The Washington Post, April 11, 2020

The Married Will Soon Be the Minority, by Charles Blow, The New York Times, October 20, 2021

The Escalating Costs of Being Single in America, by Anne Helen Peterson, Vox, December 21, 2021

Single by Choice: Why more of us than ever before are happy to never get married, by Janelle Nanos, Boston Magazine, 2012

Why Single People Are So Financially Stressed, by Kimberly Palmer, US News and World Report, 2012

Single and Loving It, by Sarah Thomas, The Sydney Morning Herald,  2009