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Quiara Alegría Hudes and the Rebellion of Care: when Women Decide to LeaveThe Pulitzer Prize-winning Puerto Rican author explores the emotional weightBy Estefanía Muriel for Ruta Pantera on 10/27/2025 6:58:13 AM |
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| Quiara Alegría Hudes And The Rebellion Of Care: When Women Decide To Leave The Pulitzer Prize-winning Puerto Rican author explores the emotional weight of the care and the need to break with the traditional roles imposed on women. Pulitzer Prize-winning Puerto Rican writer and playwright Quiara Alegría Hudes bursts into the narrative with The White Hot , a novel that challenges gendered structures surrounding caregiving. From her powerful declaration—“ When a woman leaves, there’s always another woman to take care of her. I rebel against that ” (Hudes, 2025)—the author poses a radical question: why does caregiving remain almost exclusively an obligation of women? Care as an inheritance and invisible burden In Latin America, family care—for children, the elderly, or the sick—falls disproportionately on women. According to regional studies, they spend three times as much time on unpaid domestic and care work as men. In countries like Colombia, Mexico, and Peru, this work is still considered a moral duty rather than a shared social right. Meanwhile, in Canada and the United States, public care systems—daycare, parental leave, or community support—offer institutional support that, while not eliminating inequality, distributes part of that burden to the State and not just to the female body. This cultural disparity explains why, in Latin America, caregiving is experienced as an “invisible burden,” a sacrifice that limits women’s personal and professional development. As Hudes suggests in her interview with El País , her own grandmother “ spent her life caring for her children, then her grandchildren, and then her great-grandchildren. She even cared for other people’s children! ” (Hudes, 2025). This portrait encapsulates entire generations of women who learned to love by caring, even when no one was caring for them. That emotional legacy, woven with sacrifice and silence, continues to mark the lives of millions in Latin America. But today, voices like that of Quiara Alegría Hudes invite us to question that legacy and imagine new forms of affection, where caring doesn't mean disappearing. Can Latin American women rewrite that ancestral mandate and transform caregiving into an act of freedom, not an obligation? | ||||
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The rebellion of those who decide to leave In The White Hot , Hudes imagines the story of a teenage mother who decides to abandon her daughter. More than a condemnation, the gesture embodies an act of emotional liberation: the rejection of the expectation that women must always remain to support others. “ In my novel, the father provides stability, and that's why the woman can go ” (Hudes, 2025), explains the author. This symbolic reversal of roles—man as the foundation and woman as the one who leaves—subverts the patriarchal structure of care. Hudes's narrative thus situates itself in the realm of emotional rebellion, where caring ceases to be a mandate and becomes a choice. " I became a mother intentionally, out of joy, wanting to show my children a woman who lives her own life " (Hudes, 2025), she confesses. Her work proposes a different horizon for Latin American women: one where love is measured not by sacrifice, but by authenticity. A literature to heal and emancipate With The White Hot , Hudes opens a space for reflection on Latina female identity, connections, and autonomy. Her protagonist, April Soto, channels a repressed energy that, in the author's words, represents " the story of how to channel that energy and honor it " (Hudes, 2025). Through fiction, the author promotes a silent revolution: that of women who decide not to mandate caring anymore, but to care for themselves first. | |||
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