Journey rolls on for women in RVs as ‘Nomadland’ rides high at Oscars | Malay Mail

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WOODBINE, April 27 — For Kathy Wardell, a 56-year-old who decided to live full-time in her camper RV beginning in October, the lifestyle depicted in Nomadland — which won three Oscars on Sunday — is familiar territory. Like the film’s heroine Fern, she experienced personal and professional...

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Wardell was attending a rally held by the Mid-Atlantic chapter of a national organization called RVing Women which counts more than 2,300 members, some of whom live in their campers full-time but many of whom reside in them for months or simply weekends out of the year. She hoped viewers would also take into account how divorce or death of a spouse late in life not only causes crippling heartbreak but can sometimes “also cripple women financially.”According to Lee Ensor, the Mid-Atlantic chapter’s membership coordinator, 50 per cent of the organisation’s overall members are solo travelers — women plying the vast US highway system without a spouse or other companion.

“I think a lot of us here have talked about safety,” Veney said, which, as an African-American female, was a concern that she said gave her “a lot in common” with the group’s multiple gay women. featured women living in often rickety vans, the price of an RV, which stretches from tens of thousands of dollars to six figures, means their inhabitants do not necessarily live on the margins of society.

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