Imperfect Paradise: Getting lost in Latina trad wife TikTok

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🗓️ 29 June 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

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 become popular and gone viral on social media. In the first episode of a three-part collaboration with Latino USA, Imperfect Paradise 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.

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0:00.0	This week on Imperfect Paradise, we dive into the life of one so-called tradwife.
0:05.4	What do her motivations and politics tell us about where we're at culturally?
0:09.9	Imperfect Paradise, wherever you get your podcasts.
0:14.7	This is Larry Mantle. Join me Tuesday, August 12th at the Skirball Center for a deep dive into the history of Los Angeles News Media.
0:23.7	It's part of Airtalk's 40th anniversary tour.
0:26.6	Tickets at alias.com slash events.
0:29.1	We'll see you there.
0:30.2	If you're on the internet, you've probably seen a rise in a certain kind of social media video.
0:35.5	I know I have.
0:37.7	Here's everything I prep for my husband for the next two days.
0:41.2	Tradwives.
0:42.2	The definition of a trad wife is not nearly someone who stays at home, but who romanticizes it,
0:48.5	where we are looking back not only to the way things worked in the 50s, but the values that
0:53.6	families had in the 50s.
0:55.2	They are wives and mothers
0:56.8	making beautiful, elaborate meals for their husbands and children,
1:00.7	sometimes even wearing designer dresses.
1:03.6	The internet has been quick to call them tradwives,
1:06.9	women who advocate for traditional gender roles.
1:10.1	And some of them are Latinas.
1:12.5	Webona.
1:13.6	That this man was landaulde in the fogon and me
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