Many Basque feminists have been disappointed to learn that writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has externalized pregnancy, meaning that a surrogate has fertilized her baby for money.Adichie is the author of the essay We should all be feminists, among others. They have ignored the fact that the Nigerian American writer is not Angela Davis, that her feminism is not particularly revolutionary from an anti-capitalist perspective.

In addition, the writer has been judged from the prism of the Basque Country for “buying a child”, without taking into account that surrogate fertilization is rooted and normalized in the United States, where individual freedom and market freedom are religion.

It seems paradoxical to me that the writer who spoke about the “privileges” of trans women has taken advantage of her current class privilege to be a mother, not because of the lack of utero or problems of infertility, but as a strategy to “reconcile” her professional success with her parenthood. It will probably also have a squad of child-caregivers, but we are more accustomed to the externalization of this reproductive work.

We love to judge celebrity practices: is it contradictory for a feminist writer to resort to surrogacy? In my opinion, it is more interesting to address the pro-other controversy of the moment in a deeper debate: Is the normalization of this practice/business born in the United States in us the model of reproduction that we want for the Basque Country?

Excuse me for the publicity pill: Angels and Maids In the essay of the LISIPE collection we deal with the subject in depth. Among other things, we mention that it is easy to charge those who pay “rent bellies” when they are Ana Obregón, Miguel Bosé, Kim Kardashian or Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. But what happens when we have intentional parents in the neighborhood, co-workers, friends or family?

This has been the concern most expressed to me by the readers: how to make the strong criticism against surrogate pregnancies compatible with the coexistence with the relatives of the area? I can’t summarize the answer in one column, but I think it’s important to note that the fact that Adichie has bought a baby is directly related to the fact that children born through surrogate pregnancy are told by classmates like “your parents bought you.” Let's give it a spin when we forget Chimamanda's controversy.