"Following The New York Times’ multiyear investigation into sexual misconduct by Cesar Chavez, I can no longer stay silent and must share my own experiences. …

I have never identified myself as a victim, but I now understand that I am a survivor—of violence, of sexual abuse, of domineering men who saw me, and other women, as property, or things to control."

#CesarChavez #DoloresHuerta #SexualAbuse #rape #women #Latina #patriarchy #misogyny #farmworkers
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"I am telling my story because The New York Times has indicated that I was not the only one—there were others."

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"She — and the women who endured in silence for the sake of the movement — are the ones we must uplift now. They are the ones who deserve our reverence, our gratitude, and our protection.

It is almost impossible to fathom the depth of trauma, isolation, fear, and heartbreak Dolores Huerta has carried for six decades — largely alone."

~ Maria Cardona

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https://www.contrariannews.org/p/a-reckoning-long-overdue

"We are taught to hold everything together, to sacrifice ourselves, to endure quietly for the greater good. In Dolores’s own words, she stayed silent for her family, her community, and the farmworker movement to which she devoted her life.

Pues ya basta. Enough is enough."

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"We have, in the Chavez case, an important reminder that even progressive politics and the passionate belief in certain kinds of justice is no bulwark against the misogyny that envisages girls and women as, effectively, human property."

~ Kate Manne

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https://www.thecut.com/article/cesar-chavez-abuse-entitlement.html

"If Chavez was anything like legions of other men, including Epstein and Pelicot, then he abused and raped girls and women out of the arrogant belief that he had the right to — that their experience of his crimes did not matter. That they did not matter in their bodily autonomy, their dignity, or their personhood."

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"I’ve seen a few more conservative types commenting on the Chavez story with something akin to, “See, abuse happens in liberal circles, too.” And that’s true, it can, and it does.

But this kind of statement is also misleading."

~ Holly Berkley Fletcher

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https://hollyberkleyfletcher.substack.com/p/the-cause

"Because whether you’re talking about Cesar Chavez or Joseph Duggar—that’s right, a second Duggar son has been arrested for the sexual abuse of children—it’s all the same thing.

It’s patriarchy. It’s the abuse of power. It’s some people being assigned a lesser value than other people.

It can happen anywhere, and it does."

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"But these days, as opposed to Cesar Chavez’s days, when women’s rights lagged behind other civil rights advances, there’s a lot more of it in conservative religious settings that intentionally elevate men above women, use harsh parenting to teaching children to unquestioningly obey authority, and restrict women’s roles."

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