Huerta

  

Dolores Huerta Foundation “Dolores Huerta: The Feminist Seed is Planted.”

Dolores Huerta's overlapping identities—each with their realms of prejudice and inequity—played a constituent role in fueling her endeavors. In being an advocate of labor rights, (migrant Latina workers being a focal point) Huerta faced Latinx discrimination and gender-based criticism herself. Nonetheless, she resisted stereotypes and refused to nurture the claim that female activists were ‘bad’ mothers or ‘unwomanly.’ Additionally, the activist’s keen skills in negotiating and lobbying, which was considered a ‘man's sport,’ were reflected in securing “Aid For Dependent Families (“AFDC”) and disability insurance for farmworkers in the State of California in 1963, an unparalleled feat at the time.” Dolores Huerta defies the imperialist white-supremacist hetero-patriarchy as she has brought a vast array of injustices to light. We can consider how other aspects of her identity intertwine to create her distinct, marginalized experience.