4.9 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 29 June 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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During a flurry of election-related anxiety, Imperfect Paradise host Antonia Cereijido re-downloaded TikTok and fell down a very specific rabbit hole: Latina trad wife content. Videos of women waking up at three in the morning, making “lonche” for their husbands and espousing traditional lifestyles have gone viral on social media.
In the first episode of a three-part collaboration with the Imperfect Paradise podcast, Latino USA goes behind the scenes with one particular so-called trad wife, Lupita Duarte, to understand what her motivations, politics and aspirations can tell us about the cultural moment.
Latino USA is the longest-running news and culture radio program in the U.S., centering Latino stories and hosted by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Maria Hinojosa.
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0:38.6 | And not you're going to be yes. |
0:47.2 | If you're on the internet, you've probably seen a rise in a certain kind of social media video. |
0:58.1 | I know I have. |
0:59.3 | Here's everything I prep for my husband for the next two days. |
1:02.9 | Tradwives. |
1:03.5 | The definition of a tradwife is not nearly someone who stays at home, but who romanticizes it, |
1:10.1 | where we are looking back not only to the way |
1:12.4 | things worked in the 50s, but the values that families had in the 50s. |
1:16.9 | They are wives and mothers making beautiful, elaborate meals for their husbands and children, |
1:23.0 | sometimes wearing designer dresses. The internet has been quick to call them |
1:28.4 | trad wives, women who advocate for |
1:31.1 | traditional gender roles, and |
1:33.4 | some of them are Latinas. |
1:36.0 | But they're not letting |
1:37.4 | lunch in the fogon, and me |
1:40.0 | took to get to let's four of the |
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