Thread by @piescarcega

A few people sent me this recent story about the @latimes agreeing to pay out a $3 million settlement for pay discrimination based on race and gender.
latimes.com/entertainment-…

I was not part of that case.

But I have been petitioning a similar pay discrimination case, because I make much less than my white or male colleagues.

I was told I would get an answer to my grievance last week.

I cleared my Friday afternoon to be around for the call: Nothing.

Then I was told an @latimes lawyer would provide me with an official answer by today.

Nothing.

Yes, I am grateful to be here. Yes, I am grateful to have a job.

I grew up without money; I do not take these things for granted.

But the law is clear on this: It is not legal to pay me so much less because I am a woman; or because I am Chicana; or because, as I was told many times, during my job interview "nobody knows who you are";

or because my mother does not speak English; or because my surname is "weird"; or because my parents picked oranges; or for whatever other reasons you contrive to make sense of this embarrassingly huge pay gap.

Every single day I remember how I was asked at my job interview if my parents came to this country illegally.

Every single day I remember how my previous two previous editors made me feel unimportant, small, a no-name workhorse.

And I think about how I would feel if anyone dared treat my daughter that way.

I will happily fight like hell for as long as it takes, because even if I lose, at least I tried to make the world a little better for her.

Wish me luck, Twitter fam! It's getting real. 🙏🏽💛