Thread by @myhlee

Been thinking a lot about that line in the @nytimes diversity report about Asian American women, and women of color broadly, feeling invisible and unseen. Some thoughts: 1/

That feeling of invisibility is why @seungminkim's experience this week resonated so much with me and others. Being a woman and nonwhite lands you in a particularly vile venn diagram of racism and sexism that so often goes unseen. And here's why:

Women of color are underrepresented in newsroom leadership.

For a lot of people, the incident this week was appalling and shocking. But for so many of us WOC, it's been a constant in our DMs and email inboxes since the day we started working in journalism.

That power imbalance across journalism is also why so many WOC journalists feel invisible and don't have the confidence, or the support from managers, to share their experience publicly. I heard that a lot when I wrote this in 2016 washingtonpost.com/news/fact-chec…

.@IWMF research shows online harassment of women journalists is increasing but there's a "code of silence" — that it's unprofessional to talk about it. It's this type of culture that hurts long-term retention of women and women of color in journalism. iwmf.org/wp-content/upl…

That's why it matters so much for news managers, regardless of gender/race, to publicly talk about the experiences of WOC journalists.

I feel really heartened by the outpouring of support for SMK and hope to see more journalists and their managers bring this to light. /end