In talking to the members of the union, another story came out: about how in the 1980s a group of secretaries, many of them single
mothers — an
identity that challenged the notion that the secretaries were working at Yale for pin money — had stood
alongside the grounds and maintenance workers, the dining hall workers, the cooks and the plumbers, who went on strike so that the clerical workers union might be formed.
Naomieh Jovin explores her feelings around the loss of her
mother through photography, making «connections to her
mother's personal history
alongside hers» and exploring her own
identity as a Haitian - American.