The Call for Papers to ISFNR 2026 in Reykjavik is open now
27.08.2025 11:15 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0@sofiawanstrom.bsky.social
Folklorist, postdoctoral researcher at Åbo Akademi University, Finland: "Singlehood. Women's Experiences of Being Single in Swedish-Speaking Finland" Narrative; gender; singleness, relationships and dating; sexual violence; social movements She/her
Final panel of the day starts with Sofia Wanstrom on the "legend of the single woman. " #ISCLR2025
23.06.2025 13:19 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Illness as a gift, or?
18.06.2025 11:40 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Läs om mitt nya projekt på Kulturanalys fina blogg
#singel #singelkvinnor
Suns out, tongues out☀️
29.04.2025 12:51 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The people in relationships who complain that single people simply have too high standards, how happy are they in their own relationships?
09.04.2025 08:26 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Proof that people will add "studies have shown" to the most ridiculous bullshit without a second thought
08.04.2025 13:29 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Stoked to finally be starting my postdoc project! "Singlehood--Women's Experiences of Being Single in Swedish-Speaking Finland"
I'll attempt to actively post about/engage with the topic here, feel free to reach out with tips/insights
#single
There is something about the loser GenX men who have 15-25yos sons, the higher % of women in colleges/majors, women who demand respect, the slow radicalization via video games (aka Gamergate) to Joe Rogan pipeline, and the lack of community centers, which explains right shift of young men
24.02.2025 05:42 — 👍 146 🔁 17 💬 11 📌 0Also, people ask sometimes how I knew the cases in my book weren’t false allegations.
And the answer is that they’re all like this. Perpetrators confess! They just insist their violence was justified, blame the victim, and their schools take their side.
A (single) friend of mind just reconnected with her (long ago) high school boyfriend. He's successful, handsome, single, and very keen on her. When he asked her "So are you into choking" I assure you she blocked him SO fast
02.02.2025 16:06 — 👍 117 🔁 4 💬 14 📌 1Three years ago, Judith Butler predicted in a Guardian interview that “gender-critical” feminists would not be part of the fight against fascism. This caused a massive “GC” backlash, prompting The Guardian to censor the interview. And yet here they now are, definitively proving Butler correct.
01.02.2025 08:21 — 👍 3617 🔁 1207 💬 33 📌 32In gamedev, we joke about how we shouldn't care so much because "we ain't curing cancer" so chill, right?
But you know what? These last few weeks reminded me that the Arts, esp accessible Art like videogames is incredibly important because games have a big place in sculpting cultural norms.
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25.01.2025 18:59 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0"Women act counter to all the laws of submission when they remove themselves from availability. This is what enflares Marie's enemies." --Matrix, Lauren Groff
25.01.2025 12:02 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Or triggering my anxiety is probably a better way to phrase it
19.12.2023 09:35 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0What would Pavlov say about the email notification sound giving me anxiety 🤔
19.12.2023 09:33 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0😄
17.11.2023 17:40 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0In Finland, to keep new horses from getting "homesick", you could bring it into the house and let it eat from the stove
17.11.2023 07:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Thanks for the shoutout 😄
16.11.2023 18:33 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0