UNITED STATES
CNN
March 8, 2018
By Julia Carpenter
In the opening pages of her new book, reporter Bernice Yeung quotes feminist writer Audre Lorde.
The woman’s place of power within each of us is neither white or surface; it is dark, it is ancient, and it is deep.
Yeung’s “In a Day’s Work: The Fight to End Sexual Violence Among America’s Most Vulnerable Workers” comes out on March 20, and in it, she writes about spending time in some of these “dark” places where women have found strength despite grappling with sexual assault amid grinding poverty. As a reporter for the Center for Investigative Reporting’s online platform, Reveal, Yeung has covered stories in immigrant communities and vulnerable populations — those people often omitted from the recent nationwide reckoning on sexual harassment.
Yeung is among the many journalists who have covered sexual harassment in the workplace long before the #MeToo movement swept the country. For “In a Day’s Work,” Yeung followed the lives of “invisible workers” — the women who pick our food, mop our floors and clean our bathrooms.
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