Lena Dunham has penned an essay about immigrant women in honor of International Women’s Day, asking for her readers to fight “with and for them.”
“Someone I love is undocumented,” the actress began her essay, first posted on LinkedIn. “She is a personal hero of mine:ย She has cared for the dying, for the just-born, for people who can’t care for themselves. She has a vast and encompassing religious identity rooted only in love. She feeds people literally and figuratively. She is everything you could hope for from an American. But she has not been allowed to become one.”