• We are going on hiatus for an exciting reason!

• Flashback to our 2021 end of year episode

• We might well be back, so keep us in your podcast feed!

• Managing creative and physical energy with long covid 

• Our Patreon will remain open to keep the N+S website and episodes up

• We’re still hoping to do our retreat

• Thank you for listening and supporting in so many ways. We love you!

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• US police solve only 2% of all major crimes  
• Defunding the police will actually make us safer  
• Aboriginal deaths in custody in Australia
• Ursula K Le Guin's speech at National Book Awards
• Feminist writer, coach and business woman Kelly Diels 
• Sophie Lewis’ “Abolish the Family” book
• The family structure we’ve held up as the cultural ideal for the past half century has been a catastrophe for many
• For a lovely vision of what anti-capitalist living could look like, read A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
• Also read: Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism
• Communal living is taking off in the US: Leaving Cambridge for the comfort of strangers - The Boston Globe
• Map of communal living spaces in the US: Cohousing Assn of the US
• Financial Times: Britain and the US are poor societies with a few very rich people
• Chart on income inequality in the UK & US 
• Sustainable and ethical brand rankings: Good On You
• Jenny Lachs tells us why she thinks feminism and capitalism can’t co-exist
• Rich people who want to be taxed more: She’s Inheriting Millions. She Wants Her Wealth Taxed Away. - The New York Times
• ‘Tax us now’: ultra-rich call on governments to introduce wealth taxes
• Flint Water Crisis: Everything You Need to Know
• Join your local Buy Nothing group
• Tiff shares with us why she thinks capitalism and feminism are antithesis

 

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We discuss end-of-year rituals and bid farewell to the year:

• We talk about Wintering: The power of Rest & Retreat in Difficult Times by Katherine May 
• What the heck is the Gregorian Calendar anyway?
• The Celtic Calendar sounds much more our style
• Kit recommends Spirited, the movie musical, for some holiday fun
• Is Die Hard a Christmas movie?
• Viv is planning to do the Year Compass as an end-of-2022 ritual

It’s our fifth anniversary! 

• The episode Kit regrets…. 
• Viv is proud of our queer episode, although we’d do it differently now
• Kit shouts out our blockbuster two part episode on neurodivergence (part 2 here) 
• Check out our Reading Retreat… coming back (hopefully) in 2023!
• You can also join the Long Reads club if you wanna hang with us and 
• Rage Retreat. Camp Catharsis. What do you think? Let us know.
• Send us your voice memo on feminism and capitalism!

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• Join us at the 7in7 digital nomad conference in Montréal
• Read with us in our long-reads club
• Connect with Viv and Kit on Good Reads
• Powell’s City of Books in Portland
• A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
• Untamed by Glennon Doyle 
• Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors by Sonali Dev
• The Trauma Cleaner by Sarah Krasnostein 
• Delilah Green Doesn't Care by Ashley Herring Blake 
• Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel 
• A Room Called Earth by Madeleine Ryan
• Happy Endings by Bella Green
• The Charm Offensive by Alison Cochrun
• Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
• Spoiler Alert ​​by Olivia Dade
• Laziness Does Not Exist by Devon Price
• The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer by Janelle Monáe
• Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-Joo
• Black Widow by Leslie Gray Streeter
• How to How to Kill Your Family by Bella Mackie

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• Kit mentions our [very old] hobby episode
• Viv mentions our [also very old] vacation episode
• Jenny of Digital Nomad Girls shares her home base thoughts. Choir buddies!
• Have you joined Bumble BFF?
• One more old episode: How to Stay Politically and Socially Active!
• Carbon offsetting app Wren
• Marbree shares her vegetable and mushroom farming adventures
• Get your own Sleigh the Patriarchy jumper here

 

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• Jewels talks about the conflicting objectives of modern weddings and how she made her wedding an event that still has her guests asking for a reunion 10 years on
• Jon’s proposal to Viv
• Viv’s favourite ever proposal (still makes me cry ten years after I first saw it)
• Wedding magazine editor Sally tells us why she loves weddings despite being a feminist 
• Janice stresses the importance of considering your intentions for wanting to get married
• Watch the first dance Kit and Claire choreographed for Viv and Jon’s wedding
• And if you really want to see the whole show, here’s the [edited!] wedding video
• Kyrie tells us about her own unconventional wedding plans

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• Please fill out Kit’s survey on neurodivergence in nomads
• Angie shares why she decided to take medication and learned to forgive herself for years of feeling incapable 
• ADHD expert Dr Ned Hallowell on TikTok
• The worldwide prevalence of ADHD: is it an American condition?
• The Great Indoors: The Surprising Science of How Buildings Shape Our Behavior, Health, and Happiness
• Make cleaning fun with the Sweepy app
• Daisy tells us what it’s like to have been diagnosed with both ADHD and autism
• Hannah shares how getting her ADHD diagnosis improved her relationships and gave her the right vocabulary to explain what she is experiencing
• Laziness Does Not Exist by Devon Price 
• Kathryn tells us about her neurodivergent journey and autistic burnout
• Fidget toys
• Calmer earbuds
• Martina tells us how realised she may have ADHD after two of her close friends were diagnosed
• ADHD self-assessment for women
• Autism self-assessment
• Highly Sensitive Person self-assessment
• So, You Think You Have ADHD? PDF (includes Facebook groups and other useful links)
• Have you had or been to a feminist wedding? Share your stories here to be featured in one of our upcoming episodes

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This is the first of our two-part series on ADHD, autism and the whole spectrum of neurodivergence.

• Jon’s bird content
• Please do Kit’s survey on neurodivergence in nomads!
• Dani Donovan’s ADHD comics 
• The “Faces of ADHD” and the “3 Types of ADHD” (more great cartoons here and here)
• Angie shares how she balances nomading and neurodivergence
• Jenny of Digital Nomad Girls shares her diagnosis journey 
• Daisy’s Irish Independent article [paywall]
• “Vivienne” tastes like purple icing
• Here’s the reason to retire “Aspergers” from your vocabulary
• #ActuallyAutistic on Instagram and Twitter and TikTok 
• Buzzfeed News article about person-first language
• Two sides of ADHD 
• So, You Think You Have ADHD? PDF
• Hannah Dixon of Digital Nomad Kit talks about her diagnosis journey
• ADHD self-assessment for women
• Autism self-assessment
• Highly Sensitive Person self-assessment
• ND accounts on Instagram: 
  • https://www.instagram.com/connor.dewolfe/
  • https://www.instagram.com/danidonovan/ 
  • https://www.instagram.com/adhd_alien/ 
  • https://www.instagram.com/nd.narratives/
  • https://www.instagram.com/the_mini_adhd_coach/ 
  • https://www.instagram.com/authenticallyadhd/ 
  • https://www.instagram.com/iampayingattention/ 
  • https://www.instagram.com/actuallyautistictiktoks/ 

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• What happened when Kit got Covid
• We mull over what next year might look like
• The Art of Gathering
• People making plans for 7in7
• Shoutout to our excellent VA, Charlotte!
• Join the Long Reads club on our Patreon
• We announce our career change to screenwriters
• The most Australian thing ever (you are welcome)

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Content note: In this episode, we cover diet culture and fatphobia, so if that’s not good for you maybe give this one a miss!

• If you wanna get a sneak peek at Viv’s wedding here’s a 45 second trailer
• And here was the honeymoon resort in case you’re looking for the best all-inclusive holiday you’ve ever had 
• Contribute to our episode on neurodivergence that we’re planning for next year
• Intuitive Eating by Evelyn Tribole and Elise Resch
• Give @foodpeacedietitian, Ragen Chastain and Kirsten Ackerman a follow to find out more from a nutrition perspective
• Listen to the podcast Maintenance Phase by @yrfatfriend and Michael Hobbes, author of Everything You Know About Obesity is Wrong

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