{"id":71492,"date":"2026-04-10T11:37:50","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T18:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eltecolote.org\/content\/?p=71492"},"modified":"2026-04-10T11:44:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T18:44:46","slug":"open-callla-trenza-art-storytelling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eltecolote.org\/content\/en\/open-callla-trenza-art-storytelling\/","title":{"rendered":"La Trenza: Unraveling silence, power and identity through art and storytelling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As a community, how do we reckon with toxic masculinity?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After decades of silence, Dolores Huerta, civil rights leader and co-founder of the United Farm Workers, shared her story about abuse and sexual violence, joining other women who brought forward allegations of assault against the late labor leader Cesar Chavez in an investigation<\/a> by The New York Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This rupture of trust, and the devastation that comes with it, is all too familiar. Among San Francisco\u2019s Latine communities, violence against women and nonbinary people has long haunted and divided us. Breaking the silence surrounding machismo can be incredibly difficult. It can come with shame, fear and isolation, leaving many to carry pain on their own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI carried this secret for as long as I did because building the movement and securing farmworker rights was my life\u2019s work,\u201d Huerta wrote in a statement<\/a>. \u201cThe knowledge that he hurt young girls sickens me. My heart aches for everyone who suffered alone and in silence for years.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In response, we are relaunching La Trenza, El Tecolote\u2019s<\/em> community art and storytelling space to share reflections, memories, poems, voice notes, videos or artwork that explore how power, identity, gender and silence show up in our lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We aim to build a living archive of these stories, publishing selected submissions across our platforms, including digital, print and physical spaces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 \u201cMy silence ends here,\u201d Huerta wrote. We hope our communities can do the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Share your story<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can submit:<\/p>\n\n\n\n