The Spinster Life Podcast

Have you seen the 2019 movie Spinster starring Chelsea Peretti? Eva and Amie have, and they'll tell you exactly what they thought about it. Are they biased because they are spinsters? Not at all. Listen to find out what worked in this movie, and what didn’t from two screenwriters who have watched way too many movies.  This episode contains spoilers. If you haven’t seen the movie we discuss specifi...

Age ain't nothing but a number. Until you turn 40 and have a reckoning with your own mortality, watch the ceaseless march of time march right across your face, and consider shaving a few years off your age on dating profiles.    This is the year Eva and Amie turn 40, and they aren't 100% on board with being "over the hill." Listen as they bemoan the return of fashion they thought was long gone, th...

In this episode, we welcome our guest Emma Duval ( @millennialemma on IG) to discuss the Childfree Movement. Oh, so we're talking about childless women. NO! Let's get something straight. We're talking about being childfree, the intentional choice to abstain from having children. The suffix '-less' implies that something is missing. The suffix '-free' means that childfree people are free from child...

Is the thought of traveling alone as a woman scary to you? Well, it shouldn’t be. Think you’ll be bored out of your mind if you travel alone? Maybe, but you won't be bored because you're waiting for someone to shower. Did you know that there's a whole community of people dedicated to turning their cars into hotel rooms on wheels? Well, there are, and it can be much more luxurious than it sounds. ...

In past episodes, we've covered the lives of spinsters and the challenges they faced because they weren't married.    In this episode, we discuss Russian spinsters with my dear friend Leysan (@ leysan.r.khabibullina on IG), a real Russian person! Or we try to at least. Russia did a good job of disposing of their unmarried women, sending them to the gulag or asylums, so spoiler, we weren't able to...

We're taking back the word Spinster. But why do we even have to take it back? What happened along the way to turn a neutral word that described a woman's occupation into a way to minimize a woman's choice not to get married? On this episode, we examine the lives of the many, many women single, working women who have come before us. We're going back in time to tell the story of the OG Spinsters. Am...

To wrap up Black History Month on a high note, Eva and Amie learn more about science-fiction author Octavia E. Butler. She predicted the future with her writing, left us some amazing stories, and her notes, which are filled with inspiration and motivation for any writer. Show Notes Get full access to Hotter & Weirder at hotterandweirder.substack.com/subscribe

Happy Galentine's Day! It's that time of year where love is in the air. But what about love in friendships? In this bonus episode, Eva and Amie talk about what makes Galentine's Day better than Valentine's Day. The answer is friends, especially friendships between women, like the 51-year friendship between Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. They also talk about discounted drug store cand...

Does being a spinster mean you can never have kids? No. Not at all. Not even a little bit. You can choose to be a single mom. It's not an easy choice, or a decision to take lightly, but if you want to have children, you don't have to wait around for a spouse. Case in point, actor/writer/producer Mindy Kaling. She has two children and no ring on her finger. Mindy is a person who knows herself very...

Princeton graduate. Oxford student. Harvard Law School Graduate. Chicago Law School Professor. Harvard Law School Dean. First woman appointed as Solicitor General. Supreme Court Justice. Yeah, but what a pity that she's not married. 🙄 It doesn't matter how much a woman achieves, the question still remains, how are we supposed to understand her if she's not attached to a man? 🙄🙄🙄 We're doing wh...

Lizzie Borden took an axe Gave her mother 40 whacks When she saw what she had done She gave her father 41 - Children's Rhyme It's a catchy little rhyme, but is it accurate?? Eva and I use our true crime show watching powers to look at the evidence and render a verdict on perhaps the bloodiest, matricidal/patricidal spinster that ever was, Lizzie Andrew Borden. We talk timelines, murder weapons, an...

Did you vote in the 2020 presidential election? First, you really should have, women didn't always have the right to vote. Second, you should thank suffragists like Susan B. Anthony. Her work moved the needle towards making voting equal for everyone. She died in 1906, years before the 19th Amendment was ratified. Speaking of the 19th Amendment, Susan helped to write what we know as the 19th Amendm...