Another victim of Cesar Chavez breaks their silence: ‘My body remembers’
by Janette Villafana from on (#752D8)
Jennifer Andrea Porras, now 53, says they were sexually abused by the union leader as a teen
A version of this story was published in Spanish in La Opinion.
When Jennifer Andrea Porras, a non-binary, Indigiqueer, Coahuiltecan artist and cultural worker from the San Francisco Bay Area, first found out about the New York Times investigation detailing allegations by multiple women of sexual abuse by civil rights icon Cesar Chavez, they were not surprised. The news confirmed their own experience with the co-founder of the United Farm Workers (UFW) union.
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