Someday Mija, You’ll Learn the Difference Between a Whore and a Working Woman – Author Talk with Yvonne Martinez | New Labor Author Series #7

Join us for our next author talk in our worker organizing series, with Yvonne Martinez to discuss her new memoir, Someday Mija, You’ll Learn the Difference Between a Whore and a Working Woman. The book chronicles Yvonne’s upbringing and family history in a Mexican family in Utah, weaving together how discoveries about family secrets including domestic abuse and child trafficking, led her to a long career as a labor activist, fighting sexual harassment in the labor unions where she worked. We will talk to Yvonne about her reflections on intergenerational trauma and growth, her decades of experiences in the labor movement as an advocate, organizer, negotiator, and writer, and what she thinks about the future of the worker power and organizing. 

Praise for the Book

“This sharp autobiographical account deftly illuminates prejudice in the American workplace.” – Kirkus Reviews

“Someday Mija, You’ll Learn the Difference Between a Whore and a Working Woman is a memoir that turns time on its head, circling through terror and joy with eloquence and becoming its own sacrament of resistance.” -Foreword Reviews, 5-star review

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About Yvonne Martinez

Yvonne Martinez is a retired labor negotiator/organizer. She has been published by ZyZZyVa, Crab Orchard Review, Labor Notes, and NPR. She also formerly wrote a local labor blog in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her play Scabmuggers is based on her experience as a National Fellow of the Harvard Trade Union Program in 1994. Yvonne lives in Berkeley, CA, and Portland, OR.

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