Thanks for the comment and kind words on the project. I think you are getting at what makes these autobiographical comics really resonate with me personally and with societal constructions of identity. There is a honest and vulnerable account of these artists encountering social ideologies, morality, and myths about motherhood and in/fertility. And, how these have negatively impacted someone's sense of themselves and place, because this assumption of "dream or work hard enough and anything is possible" is completely unfounded. 

I think these comics are powerful and, by depicting conversations with family, friends, strangers, doctors, etc., we get to see how our language around the experience of in/fertility is rooted in a dominate culture that ignores scientific facts on illnesses and pregnancy success in general, the reality of current medical procedures and their success, and, dare I say, logic or empathy. Paula Knight's The Facts of Life, another Graphic Medicine work, also has plenty of examples that show these dialogues and moments where a person is compared to some unachievable idea of normal that have such a strong impact on them. 

And, as you stated on what they show us about issues in the larger sociopolitcal climate we are in, I think they also show how one person, one comment, one question can (and has since these works are autobiographical) make someone feel they have failed by setting up "entirely out of reach" standards. These works leave me thinking how can I change my rhetoric around "parenthood" and in/fertility to make sure I am not subconciously reiterating these false-normalities and how can we working in this field, as artists, researchers, advocates, etc., influence those changes beyond ourselves. For me, these comics give me that language to do so. So long story short - really hope when you are reading the zine or the larger works later they are helpful, too.