Oh boy, that Lena Dunham piece. I agree wholeheartedly that we need other narrative futures for girls and women than ‘mother’ - and to acknowledge how wildly hard it is to accept that you may never have children, even while challenging the nature and necessity of the desire to...

But v wary of some of the language she uses around fertility treatment - ‘vanity embryos’ in ref to IVF, the idea of ‘bending’ nature - while every reference to the inequalities that make treatment an option for some & an impossibility for others seems relegated to parentheses

Anyway this is a v good thread on some of the issues here https://twitter.com/alannaschubach/status/1328385781807816704