Existential vulnerability and transition: Struggling with involuntary childlessness on Instagram

Abstract In their efforts to find others who share experiential reality and existential struggle, many involuntarily childless women turn Instagram engage participate in the practice of trying-to-conceive (TTC) communication. Through conceptual lens digital existence, where online are regarded as constitutive transition, we draw on ten interviews an ethnography explore some struggles that experience with through technology. We TTC communication can be coming terms status involuntary childlessness. particular, this study illustrates communication, for women, is both a site struggle safe space they transition nonmotherhood terrain intimate journey.