Emma Watson Didn’t Invent “Self-Partnership”

Yes, there’s a difference between being single and being self-partnered

Joanna Scutts
Forge
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5 min readNov 13, 2019

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TThe actor Emma Watson recently declared herself “self-partnered” in a British Vogue interview, after confessing to a deeply relatable freakout on the eve of her 30th birthday. Watson’s declaration has a home in the burgeoning “single positivity” movement (soundtracked…

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Joanna Scutts
Forge
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Writer, critic, curator, cultural historian. Author, THE EXTRA WOMAN (2017). Words at Slate, New Republic, Washington Post & more. www.joannascutts.com