In a preview of their chat, posted to the Lenny Letter Instagram page, 29-year-old Lena asks Hillary: ‘Do you consider yourself a feminist?’ In terms of women’s rights, you’re looking at somebody who, to the best of my knowledge, has a 100 percent pro-choice voting record. I’m hoping people aren’t afraid to say, ‘That doesn’t mean you hate men!’ It just means that we believe women have the same rights as men: Politically, culturally, socially, economically. “Serioulsy (sic), I’m trying to imagine something more hack than a Lena Dunham/Hillary Clinton interview about “feminism”, but am having a hard time because I don’t think it exists”.
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“I was terrified about losing my identity and getting lost in the kind of wake of Bill’s force-of-nature personality”, Clinton told Dunham. “I turned him down twice when he asked me to marry him”.
Dunham is an outspoken Clinton supporter, and said the Democratic front-runner’s positions are in line with many millennials on reproductive rights and social justice, college debt, voting rights and police brutality.
According to Politico, the previously-taped segment “includes comedy sketches filmed at Clinton’s Brooklyn campaign headquarters”.
The full interview will be posted Tuesday on Dunham’s online newsletter. With women comprising 52 percent of the American electorate, and an astounding 50 percent of millenials now identifying as independents, the 2016 presidential elections just might come down to which candidate you’d rather share a fair trade kombucha with.
Her full interview will be available to subscribers on Dunham’s new website, LennyLetter.com, on September 29.
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Lenny Letter is Dunham’s most recent venture, which she started in partnership with “Girls” producer Jennifer Konner.
