Single people have yet to have their moment as a political force. That’s unfortunate, as there are so many ways that they are denied the benefits and protections accorded to people who are married. Here are links to discussions of advocacy, activism, and issues facing singles; the legal and financial costs of single life; politics and voting; matters of privilege; and more.
Advocacy, activism, and issues: Single people in the U.S.
Fairness for single people: New initiative for calling out unfair and fair practices
Your status as a single person is a diversity issue
Stopping singlism: What will work?
Should marriage be a ticket to privilege? Several dozen skeptics weigh in
Without unmarried equality, gender equality is not enough
Naming it matters: Singlism and matrimania
Now it’s really time for unmarried equality
You have no right to be single
3 Roads to Social Justice – For Lasting Change, We Must Follow Them All
The Marriage Opportunists Are Coming – We Need to Be Prepared
Singlism: What It Is, Why It Matters, and How to Stop It (especially Section IV, “Stopping Singlism”);
Singled Out, Chapter 12: “Let’s give all the perks, benefits, gifts, and cash to couples and call it family values.”
Legal and Financial Costs of Single Life
Unearned privilege: 1,000+ laws benefit only married people
21 ways single people are taxed more than married people on tax day and every other day
Can you name the 1,238 federal hat tips to marriage? Guest post by Onely
Singles have fewer benefits than married couples — but are slowly gaining more
This is what it costs to be single
Getting married and getting more money
The fight for same-sex marriage and the implications for single people
Gay marriage ruling is matrimaniacal, shames single people
SCOTUS unwittingly makes the case for singles’ rights
Does the Prop 8 ruling make the case for ending marital privilege?
Misleading claims about marriage slip into the Prop 8 ruling
Singles advocacy and issues beyond the U.S.
The Global Struggle for Unmarried Equality: The Case of Finland
Singles in Finland – no shrinking violets!
Politics and voting
Sex and the single voter (New York Times)
What’s in it for women? vs. What’s in it for my husband?
Single voters should rule, but will they?
Anyone want a few million more votes?
Singlism as a political dog whistle?
Newt Gingrich’s marital hypocrisy
Should the spouse of Clarence Thomas get to form a political lobbying group?
Ted Kennedy and the missing spouse
Ed Rendell says Janet Napolitano has no life because she is single!
Marriage education and marriage promotion programs: Do they work?
Marriage and relationship education programs: Do they work?
Selling marriage in the mainstream media
I complain about the over-hyping of marriage education, and the NPR ombudsman listens
The Marriage Opportunists Are Coming – We Need to Be Prepared
Privilege for married people, sex partners, and nuclear families
Do you, married person, take these unearned privileges for better or for better? (with Rachel Buddeberg)
Check your marital privilege (with Lisa Arnold, Rachel Buddeberg, and Christina Campbell)
Unearned privilege: 1,000+ laws benefit only married people
Marital privilege: It’s not just a courtroom thing
Sex partner privilege: Similar to white privilege, male privilege, and heterosexual privilege?
Nuclear family privilege: Naming it and slaying it
Misc topics
The microaggressions of single life
Housing Discrimination against People Who Are Not Married: What We Just Don’t Get
Unmarried Americans as home buyers and home creators
Who’s afraid of single people? (blaming singles for the break-down of society)
It’s not just love. Some stay married for the health insurance.
My singles agenda (and how to make sure it continues after I’m gone)
Also see my monthly columns for Unmarried Equality
SINGLISM book
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