In her article, “Vulnerability and Resistance in Carmen Aguirre’s Mexican Hooker#1,” Cinta
Mesa examines Chilean-Canadian playwright and actress Carmen Aguirre’s latest autobiographical
novel, Mexican Hooker#1, to analyze Latina vulnerability in relation to exile, emigration, gender violence
and stereotypes. The article relies upon Judith Butler’s definition of vulnerability (20), which is excluded
from official texts. The consequences of these types of trauma, which are written on female bodies, are
expressed through post-traumatic stress disorder. The author expresses the difficulty of acting because
of her post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms and the challenges she meets on her way to heal herself
and her community. As Aguirre’s body becomes the repository of many kinds of violence, acting means
resilience for the actress.