Writing that stays with you.

Theater · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

The Joads Take the Road Back

In the 2024 Berkeley production, Octavio Solis turns Steinbeck’s route east and asks who inherits an American story.

Culture · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

Wifredo Lam Put Sugarcane in the Modernist Frame

In The Jungle, a Caribbean crop carries histories that modernism cannot leave outside the frame.

Tech · LUCIR

Nubank Moved the Bank Line. Who Can Get Through?

A Colombian founder, a Brazilian banking problem, and the difference between a bigger customer count and meaningful access.

Film · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

Amores perros: One Crash, Three Unequal Lives

Iñárritu and Arriaga’s Mexico City story joins its characters in a collision while keeping the differences between their lives in view.

Film · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

In Prayers for the Stolen, Childhood Has Its Own Plot

Tatiana Huezo gives girls’ friendships, games and growing up their own weight in a story shaped by violence.

Television · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

The Eternaut Begins With Summer Snow in Buenos Aires

An Argentine science-fiction story makes the familiar city strange—and survival a collective undertaking.

Television · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

In Vida, the Bar Is a Family Argument

Tanya Saracho’s Eastside story puts inheritance, queer belonging and a neighborhood’s future behind the same door.

Theater · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

O.K.! Puts Two Clocks in the Dressing Room

Christin Eve Cato’s backstage play puts the show’s countdown beside a canceled abortion appointment.

Culture · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

In Tierra, Land Is the Evidence That Remains

An excavator, a body and the Guatemalan earth that refuses to stay silent.

Tech · LUCIR

MercadoLibre’s New CEO Inherits More Than a Marketplace

Ariel Szarfsztejn takes charge of the systems that connect commerce, payments and daily life.

Profiles / Tech · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

Ellen Ochoa Had More to Do Than Make History

The astronaut’s legacy lives in research, robotic arms and the judgment to stop a launch.

Film / Culture · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

Coco Asks Who Gets to Own a Family’s Memory

In Pixar’s 2017 film, a stolen song turns remembrance into a question of credit, power and the stories a family inherits.

Film / Culture · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

Encanto’s Casita Knows What the Madrigals Cannot Say

In Disney’s 2021 film, Mirabel reveals the price of treating every family member’s gift as an obligation.

Television · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

Los Espookys Knows Every Institution Needs a Good Scare

In the 2019 series, a business built on staged horror reveals who commissions fear—and who does the work.

Film / Culture · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

Real Women Have Curves Makes Work Visible

Ana’s education and bodily autonomy cannot be separated from the garment workers around her.

Film / Culture · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

La Bamba Makes Translation a Form of Inheritance

Luis Valdez keeps Ritchie Valens’ public sound connected to the family and languages that shaped it.

Film · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

Blue Beetle Refuses the Secret-Identity Family

Jaime Reyes becomes a superhero in front of his relatives. The genre has to make room for all of them.

Television · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

One Day at a Time Builds Politics Into the Living Room

The Alvarez family turns the sitcom living room into a place where public pressures become personal.

Television / Culture · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

Gentefied Sees a Neighborhood as an Argument

A Boyle Heights taqueria becomes the place where mobility, memory and displacement collide.

Television · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

On My Block Lets Friendship Carry the Risk

In Freeridge, jokes and loyalty help teenagers carry threats they did not create.

Theater · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

Torera Makes the Ring a Fight Over Permission

Monet Hurst-Mendoza’s heroine challenges who can inherit a dangerous, contested tradition.

Theater · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

La Broa’ Gives Providence Its Own Stage

Rhode Island oral histories give a bilingual street—and the people who built it—a theatrical life.

Theater · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

Notes on Killing Turns the Boardroom Into a Drag Stage

Mara Vélez Meléndez puts fiscal power, drag and Puerto Rican self-determination in the same room.

Culture · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

Carolina Caycedo’s Nets Carry the People Who Made Them

Fishing collectives enter the museum as makers and ecological authorities, not anonymous inspiration.

Culture · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

Reynaldo Rivera Made a City’s Nightlife an Archive

The photographer’s intimate record preserves queer Los Angeles without turning loss into nostalgia.

Culture · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

The Couple in the Cage Put the Audience on Display

Coco Fusco and Guillermo Gómez-Peña’s performance exposes the people and institutions doing the looking.

Tech · LUCIR

Laboratoria Changed Course When the Entry-Level Door Narrowed

The end of its coding bootcamp exposes what training cannot solve when employers stop hiring beginners.

Tech · LUCIR

VamosVentures’ Latino Focus Has a U.S. Border

An investment thesis becomes concrete through rules about location, sector, stage and who can apply.

Tech · LUCIR

Globant Wants to Sell AI Output. The Human Work Still Counts

Output-based software services still depend on human judgment. The workforce belongs in the story.

Film · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

Y tu mamá también Knows What the Boys Refuse to Hear

The narrator’s deliberate sonic interruption contests the boys’ class-bound account of Mexico.

Film · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

Pan’s Labyrinth Makes Obedience the Real Test

The fairy-tale tests and military commands force a child to judge what authority deserves obedience.

Film · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

The Motorcycle Diaries Should Not Be Reduced to Che’s Origin Story

The film’s politics sharpen when the continent and Alberto Granado are not treated as props in Guevara’s biography.

Film · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

Roma Asks What a Family Memoir Owes the Worker Who Made It Possible

A domestic worker’s point of view complicates the director’s family-memory project.

Film · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

A Fantastic Woman Locates Dignity at the Door of a Funeral

The funeral becomes a concrete site where trans dignity and family power collide.

Film / Culture · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

I’m No Longer Here Treats Style as a Map of Belonging

Kolombia style and music as the social map migration disrupts.

Television · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

Club de Cuervos Makes Inheritance a Contact Sport

The 2015 series turns a football club’s succession crisis into an argument about public belonging and private dynasty.

Television · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

This Fool Makes Care Work a Comedy of Obligation

The 2022 workplace comedy tests care, masculinity and neighborhood obligation at a rehabilitation nonprofit.

Television / Culture · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

The Secret of the River Makes a Childhood Secret Social

The 2024 series turns a childhood secret into a question of community witness, Zapotec specificity and gender.

Television / Culture / Books & Writers · LUCIR

One Hundred Years of Solitude Turns Adaptation Into World-Building

Episodic adaptation as the work of making Macondo’s repetition, time and place legible.

Television · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

Maya and the Three Builds a Quest From Many Obligations

A heroine-led quest as a test of collective obligation rather than inherited exceptionalism.

Television · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

The House of Flowers Uses Melodrama to Expose a Family Brand

The flower shop as a family brand whose polished surface makes melodrama’s politics visible.

Film · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

The Chambermaid Makes Service Work a Point of View

Lila Avilés uses the hotel’s vertical geography to make class legible through a worker’s route.

Film · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

Tótem Lets a Birthday Hold the Family’s Whole Weather

Lila Avilés makes a child’s birthday preparation a study of care under the pressure of anticipatory grief.

Film · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

The Headless Woman Makes Denial a Social System

Lucrecia Martel turns Verónica’s uncertainty after an accident into an anatomy of class protection.

Film · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

Zama Turns Waiting Into the Machinery of Empire

Lucrecia Martel refuses colonial adventure’s forward motion by making Don Diego de Zama’s status depend on endless delay.

Film / Culture · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

The Settlers Refuses the Frontier’s Clean Alibi

Felipe Gálvez makes a Chilean western interrogate the images and institutions that turn Indigenous dispossession into national legend.

Film / Culture · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

Birds of Passage Makes Trade a Family Question

Ciro Guerra and Cristina Gallego use the Wayuu family saga to show criminal commerce changing kinship, ritual and obligation.

Film · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

The Blue Trail Makes Old Age a Question of Public Freedom

Gabriel Mascaro’s Brazilian fable asks what it means when a state treats elderhood as a logistics problem to be removed from view.

Film / Culture · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

The Memory of Butterflies Lets an Archive Answer Back

Tatiana Fuentes Sadowski follows colonial photographs from Peru’s Amazon to expose how an image can be both evidence and an instrument of control.

Television · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

Acapulco Makes Nostalgia Answer to Labor

Across its 2021–25 run, the resort comedy uses a retrospective narrator to expose the labor and class bargain behind nostalgia.

Television · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

Midnight Family Refuses the Fantasy of the Neutral Emergency

A medical drama about how private ambulance work reveals that an emergency already contains economics and family obligation.

Television · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

Women in Blue Turns a Publicity Stunt Into an Investigation

A police thriller in which women’s official inclusion is exposed as a performance that their investigative labor overturns.

Television · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

The Dead Girls Puts the Tabloid Version on Trial

A noir adaptation that treats journalistic reconstruction as part of the power system it describes.

Television · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

The Gringo Hunters Gives Mexico Its Own Case File

A cross-border procedural that reverses the assumed direction of authority without romanticizing policing.

Television · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

Primo Makes Advice a Family Infrastructure

A coming-of-age comedy in which competing relatives make advice feel like a social system rather than a lesson.

Television · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

Fantasmas Lets the City Refuse a Single Story

A surreal city comedy where a missing object reveals the institutional scripts governing everyday recognition.

Television · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

The Garcias Makes a Sequel Answer to Its Family

A family sitcom in which reunion means renegotiating the versions of one another that relatives believe they own.

Theater · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

La Egoísta Gives Caregiving Its Own Spotlight

The 2024 staging makes visible the unequal labor behind artistic ambition and family care.

Theater · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

In Cebollas, the Road Between Albuquerque and Denver Has a Memory

The 2024 production turns New Mexican geography into a family archive.

Theater · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

The Beautiful Land I Seek Puts Puerto Rican History on a Moving Train

A historically rooted train journey asks who bears the consequences of political action.

Theater · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

El Coquí Espectacular Knows a Superhero Still Needs a Paycheck

The superhero premise exposes the clash between cultural imagination and marketing Latino consumers.

Theater · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

Quixote Nuevo Changes the Windmills Into Border Drones

The adaptation makes a European classic answer to Tejano place, border surveillance and elder care.

Culture · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

Chosen Memories and the Power to Decide What Gets Remembered

The exhibition turns historical memory into a question of archival power and institutional selection.

Culture / Tech · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

Waldemar Cordeiro Drew a Line Between Art and Obedience

Brazilian Concrete art made systems of form a public argument, anticipating questions about designed algorithms.

Culture · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

José Alejandro Restrepo Makes the Explorer Climb Again

The video installation exposes the bodily and political choices erased by supposedly objective landscape images.

Culture · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

Cecilia Vicuña Paints a Body That Refuses to Be Corrected

The self-portrait connects political solidarity, reproductive technology and an unfinished account of self-love.

Culture · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

Tadáskía Lets a Black Bird Change the Order of the Story

An unbound book and room-sized installation make transformation collective and nonlinear.

Tech · LUCIR

Platzi’s English Bet Exposes a Job Market That Moves Its Gates

English training should widen opportunity without treating Latin American workers’ existing language as a deficit.

Tech · LUCIR

Conekta Shows Who Owns the Rails Matters as Much as the Checkout

Product ownership and acquiring power shape who benefits from Mexico’s payment infrastructure.

Tech · LUCIR

Satellogic Can See More of Earth. Who Gets to Use the View?

Latin American space innovation carries a real governance question as earth observation shifts toward persistent defense monitoring.

Tech · LUCIR

Auth0 Built a Business Around the Work Hidden in a Login

Developer-centered identity infrastructure makes access policy and account recovery a public-facing design issue.

Tech · LUCIR

SomosVC Counts the People Who Get to Say Yes

Investor representation matters because decision authority shapes what companies the market can recognize and fund.

Culture · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

The Mirror in Amalia Mesa-Bains’s Ofrenda

An analysis of how a memorial installation draws the visitor into a Chicana account of public memory.

Culture · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

Carmen Herrera’s Green Triangle Is Also an Edge

A close analysis of the two canvases and constructed edge in Blanco y Verde (1959).

Culture / Books & Writers · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

What Happened After Marta Minujín’s Book Monument Came Down?

The redistribution of books, rather than monumentality alone, is the decisive act in two versions of the Parthenon.

Culture · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

Zilia Sánchez Stretches the Canvas Past Its Frame

The projection of Sánchez’s shaped canvases changes how bodily and geometric forms share space.

Culture · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

A School Bus Carries Guadalupe Maravilla’s Sound Work

Mariposa Relámpago joins a migration object to public sound baths without reducing either to metaphor or medical claim.

Culture · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

A Game and a Healing Ritual in Carmen Lomas Garza’s Prints

Two prints locate community knowledge in ordinary settings while requiring distinct readings of play and healing.

Tech / Profiles · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

Franklin Chang-Díaz’s Rocket Has to Pass the Endurance Test

The long development of VASIMR shows the gap between a compelling propulsion principle and flight-ready hardware.

Tech / Profiles · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

Adriana Ocampo Followed a Circle of Sinkholes

Remote imagery, geophysical data, and field sites show how the Chicxulub case was assembled by teams over time.

Tech / Profiles / Books & Writers · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

A Login Puzzle Became Luis von Ahn’s Book Scanner

reCAPTCHA converted a compulsory security task into transcription, exposing both the ingenuity and labor politics of the design.

Tech / Profiles · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

The Moving Dot María Teresa Ruiz Did Not Set Out to Find

KELU-1 shows discovery as a change in classification during a systematic search for other faint objects.

Tech / Profiles · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

A Brain-Controlled Arm Needs to Feel Something Back

Nicolelis and colleagues’ feedback experiments place sensation, training, and collaboration beside the visible act of movement.

Tech / Profiles · LUCIR

José Quiñonez Put a Familiar Loan on the Credit Record

Lending Circles makes visible a community lending practice that conventional credit files had ignored.

Theater · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

The Crew Behind Zoot Suit’s 2026 Return

The 2026 college production shows a canonical Chicano play living through training and repertory labor, not only anniversary praise.

Theater · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

A Packing Shed Becomes a Chapel Stage

Venue change and radio adaptation show community theater as a practice maintained under disruption.

Theater / Culture · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

An All-Women Mariachi Band Takes Shape

The play links women entering a male-coded ensemble to the work of caring for family memory.

Theater / Culture · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

A Chicago Nightclub, Rebuilt With Music

Delgado treats a nightclub as an immigrant social infrastructure and takes the city history into public space.

Theater · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

A Silent Musical at Chicago’s Chopin Theatre

Marvin Quijada’s work makes music, movement and production labor carry the story, opening several language routes to an audience.

Theater · LUCIR

Reina’s Yellow Brick Road Runs North

The Oz framework in Brian Quijada’s musical is tested against a Salvadoran mother’s separation, music, and audience programs.

Theater · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

An Inventor Tries to File His Memories

The solo show uses circus and bolero rather than a tidy archival device, while its production exposes the labor behind one performer.

Theater / Culture · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

Dominican Spanish, a Dallas Stage, and One Family Argument

Rodriguez’s own translation account frames language as a dramatic choice with costs, not a simple export switch.

Theater · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

The Wrestler Paid to Lose

Kristoffer Díaz’s ring satire puts the economics of a supporting role alongside the market for racial stereotypes.

Theater / Television / Culture · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

Whose Story Crosses the Studio Floor?

Saracho’s two-person studio play tracks class and ownership when a writer uses a cleaner’s life as material.

Theater · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

A Storm, a Guest, and a Dallas Stage

Teatro Dallas’s 2024 staging puts a Puerto Rican playwright’s older magical-realist work into a contemporary local repertory.

Theater · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

The Property Line Went on Tour

A 2018 free neighborhood tour lets Zacarías’s garden dispute travel outside a theater building.

Theater / Culture · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

The Reader on the Cigar Factory Floor

The paid lector turns reading aloud into a contest over who sets the pace and meaning of a workday.

Theater · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

Four Rooms, Four Ways Into Fefu

Fornés makes movement and limited vantage point part of the audience’s encounter with the play.

Theater / Tech · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

A Recovery Chat Room Has a Stage

Hudes places an online recovery group beside a returning veteran to test what practical care across distance can do.

Theater · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

Medea in a Boyle Heights Yard

Alfaro places a classical tragedy at the address where immigration status changes what a family can risk.

Theater · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

Five Women, One Impossible Sewing Deadline

The original stage play centers labor and surveillance in the factory, beyond later screen or musical versions.

Theater · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

The Fandango Before an ICE Raid

Andrea Thome builds an interview-based theater work around gathering as a practical response to threatened separation.

Theater · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

The Night Before Angel’s SAT

Benjamin Benne puts a mother and daughter’s competing futures on a single night and a bilingual regional stage.

Theater / Culture · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

María Arrives With a Camera

Carmen Rivera turns a family visit into a dispute over who can call Puerto Rico home.

Film · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

Who Gets to Teach Sujo a Future?

Aunt, teacher and child face the question of what a boy can inherit without being made to repeat it.

Film · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

The Accused General Cannot Shut Out La Llorona

Jayro Bustamante brings a national horror into the house of the man who expects to escape it.

Film · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

Fausta’s Body Is Not a Historical Footnote

Claudia Llosa’s film makes a family’s account of violence a question of voice, work and bodily autonomy.

Film · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

The Evidence Ernesto Cannot Keep for Himself

In César Díaz’s film, forensic work meets the stories a son has not yet learned to hear.

Film · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

Bacurau Disappears from the Map, Then Refuses to Disappear

A Brazilian town confronts the people who would turn its residents into targets.

Film · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

Bombita and the Wedding Refuse to Stay Small

A demolition expert and a bride discover how a private grievance changes when a crowd starts watching.

Film · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

The Cow in Monos Is a Command

Alejandro Landes follows young fighters whose assigned responsibility becomes a test of their fragile order.

Film · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

The Paper Carlos Must Sign in Reinas

Klaudia Reynicke puts a father’s signature at the center of a family’s departure from 1992 Lima.

Film · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

The Daughters Keep Time in In the Summers

Alessandra Lacorazza gives a father and his daughters years in which to remember each other differently.

Film · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

Chela Inherits a Car and Finds a Route Out

Marcelo Martinessi locates a change in freedom inside the ordinary routes of a woman’s life.

Television · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

Emilio’s Campaign Has Two Kinds of Believers

Claudia Piñeiro and Marcelo Piñeyro distinguish sincere faith from the machinery built to exploit it.

Television · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

At Puente Viejo, Pastor’s Escape Has More Than One Opponent

A prison transfer brings old conflicts into a new contest over escape, allegiance and control.

Television · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

Eva Arrives Before Camilo Learns to Read the Room

Dago García’s Bogotá school comedy asks what the boys reveal when they try to understand the only girl in class.

Television · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

Envious Gives Vicky an Audience for Her Envy

Carolina Aguirre’s comedy gives social comparison a wedding invitation, a dating profile and consequences.

Television · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

A Uniform Cannot Supply a Mission

An Argentine comedy puts the gap between a public institution’s image and its work under pressure.

Television · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

Yeimy’s Stolen Songbook Outlasts the Theft

A Colombian musical drama makes authorship, betrayal and return part of the same fight.

Television · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

The Safe Delays The Great Heist

The Colombian limited series turns recruitment, a stubborn safe and the getaway into separate crises.

Television / Books & Writers · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

Belascoarán Takes His Cases Through Television and the Street

Paco Ignacio Taibo II’s detective moves through celebrity, labor and the institutions that can make him a suspect.

Television · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

Yeni’s Contract Begins Before She Can Choose

A Mexican drama makes reproductive power and the terms of an agreement inseparable.

Television · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

Fito’s Biopic Takes Eight Episodes to Reach One Album

The Argentine series builds toward a celebrated Fito Páez album without making one record an entire life.

Education & Academia / Data & Reports · LUCIR

The Two-Year College Door in Latino Education

The latest federal report draws on 2023 data to show why two-year colleges belong at the center of the Latino education conversation.

Data & Reports / Culture · LUCIR

What 70.1 Million Counts—and What It Cannot

The Census estimate makes a population visible. Race, national origin and self-identification explain why the total cannot tell the whole story.

Culture / Books & Writers · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

Flor Calls a Living Wake in Family Lore

Elizabeth Acevedo’s 2023 novel makes a Dominican American gathering a test of who gets to tell a family story.

Culture / Books & Writers · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

Liliana’s Papers Refuse a Closed Case

Cristina Rivera Garza uses letters, memory and an unresolved file to restore her sister’s life beyond the crime.

Culture / Books & Writers · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

Amabelle Crosses a Border That History Made

Edwidge Danticat’s Haitian protagonist exposes the human scale of the 1937 massacre in the Dominican Republic.

Culture / Books & Writers · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

Algarabía Gives Its Hero More Than One Language

Roque Raquel Salas Rivera’s epic makes naming, translation and Puerto Rican place part of its plot.

Culture / Books & Writers · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

The War Ends Before Slash and Burn Does

Claudia Hernández follows Salvadoran women through the obligations and absences that survive armed conflict.

Culture · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

Belkis Ayón Prints the Excluded Witness

The Cuban printmaker made an all-male society’s legend answer to its silenced female figure.

Culture · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

A Haitian Palace Rises in a Boston Shipyard

Firelei Báez placed a Caribbean ruin inside a working port’s history of migration and trade.

Culture · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

Jaguar Stone Changes Who Keeps a Museum Work

Édgar Calel’s Maya Kaqchikel installation asks an institution to perform care, not just own objects.

Culture · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

The Plants That Covered Columbus

Joiri Minaya’s Santo Domingo statue work replaces the monument’s fixed view with a history of botanical resistance.

Culture · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

Miss Colombia Names an Unfinished Homecoming

Lido Pimienta’s album makes collaboration and uneasy belonging coexist without asking one to cancel the other.

Culture · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

Alkemi Lets Daymé Arocena Change the Formula

The Afro-Cuban singer’s Puerto Rico sessions with Eduardo Cabra mark an authored turn, not an abandonment of earlier work.

Culture · LUCIR

Freddy Mamani Builds a Floor for Celebration

The Aymara architect’s El Alto buildings join commerce, festivity and housing in one highly visible structure.

Tech / Education & Academia · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

The Mars Shift Diana Trujillo Helped Run

The Colombian engineer’s rover operations and Spanish-language landing broadcast put technical command and public explanation in the same frame.

Tech / Education & Academia · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

A Battery Separator Has an Engineer

Olga González-Sanabria’s NASA career links a small energy-storage component to the institutional decisions that keep space research alive.

Tech / Education & Academia · LUCIR

Ana Maria Rey Works Before the Clock Ticks

The Colombian physicist’s theory shows why the machinery of quantum technology includes calculations that never appear in a product demo.

Tech / Culture · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

One Pulse Pushes Another Along

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s Pulse Room turns biometric capture into a visible queue, making participation inseparable from displacement.

Tech / Culture · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

Sofia Crespo Invented Specimens That Never Lived

Artificial Natural History borrows the authority of scientific illustration while exposing what happens when a machine fabricates its subjects.

Tech / Education & Academia / Data & Reports · LUCIR

PretaLab Built a Network Around the Missing Data

The Brazilian initiative connects research, training and employers while refusing to let a limited survey stand in for a national census.

Tech / Education & Academia · LUCIR

Nina da Hora Put Security on the Syllabus

A Rio training program treats networks, privacy and employment as connected parts of digital citizenship.

Tech · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

A Camera Decides Where the Sprayer Fires

Jorge Heraud’s agricultural robotics asks how precision is measured once an algorithm enters the field.

Tech / Education & Academia · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

The Spacewalk Rehearsal Has to Travel

Venezuelan engineer Evelyn Miralles helped make virtual-reality training useful when astronauts could not return to the ground.

Tech / Culture · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

What Guillermo González Camarena Actually Patented

The Mexican inventor’s chromoscopic adapter is a precise achievement that disappears under the claim that one man invented all color television.

Tech / Education & Academia · LUCIR

There Is No Single Nahuatl Voice File

Mozilla’s separate 2026 speech datasets for Nahuatl varieties show why language technology must begin with precise names and community context.

Tech / Education & Academia · LUCIR

A Smart City Has to Pass the Sidewalk Test

Katherine Chacón’s accessibility work in Ecuador puts digital services and physical routes in the same design conversation.

Film · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

Problemista Designs a Job That Might Let Him Stay

Julio Torres’s 2024 film turns an artist’s visa clock into a surreal design constraint, exposing how employment can govern imagination.

Film · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

Cassandro Refuses the Assigned Loss

In the 2023 biographical film, Gael García Bernal’s wrestler challenges a ring tradition that allowed the exótico to entertain but expected someone else to win.

Film · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

A Dictator Who Will Not Die, and an Inheritance That Will Not Disappear

Pablo Larraín’s 2023 vampire satire makes Chile’s political past a grotesque family estate.

Film / Culture · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

What The Eternal Memory Refuses to Forget About Care

Maite Alberdi’s 2023 documentary places a journalist’s Alzheimer’s diagnosis beside a partnership built on political memory and daily attention.

Film · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

La Suprema Wants a Television Signal Before a Championship

In Felipe Holguín’s 2023 film, an Afro-Colombian girl’s boxing dream meets a village’s missing electricity and map presence.

Film / Theater · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

Pedro Freire Let Malu’s Actresses Refuse Their First Versions

Pedro Freire’s 2024 film turned family memory into a rehearsal process that pushed beyond three easy generations of conflict.

Film · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

The Other Son Has No Time to Put Grief on Hold

Juan Sebastián Quebrada’s 2023 film places a teenager’s loss inside the school days that continue after his brother dies.

Film / Education & Academia / Tech · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

A Million Miles Away Begins Long Before the Launch

Alejandra Márquez Abella’s 2023 José Hernández film locates a spaceflight in the fields, classrooms and family work that preceded it.

Film / Education & Academia · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

Radical Cannot Let One Teacher Fix a Border School

Eugenio Derbez played an inventive educator in the 2023 film, but the students’ prospects exceeded any single classroom method.

Film · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

The Long Game Starts With Building a Hole

In the 2024 film, a Mexican American high-school golf team first has to make somewhere its players are allowed to play.

Television · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

Senna Finds a Nation in the Rearview Mirror

The 2024 Brazilian racing miniseries tied individual speed to public expectations and safety questions that outlasted a champion.

Television / Culture · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

City of God Returns Through a Photographer’s Archive

The 2024 first season returned to Rocket’s lens and the earlier film’s images to ask what a community could do with its own memory.

Television / Books & Writers · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

Tita’s Kitchen Is a Workplace With Its Own Rules

The Mexican adaptation that debuted in 2024 treats cooking as both a compulsory family role and a medium of resistance; its final season aired in 2026.

Television · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

With Love Measures Adulthood One Holiday at a Time

Gloria Calderón Kellett’s family series, which debuted in 2021, made celebrations checkpoints for choices that stayed unsettled between them.

Television · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

Selena: The Series Gives the Band Its Share of the Story

The 2020–21 family-authorized drama moved beyond a star’s image to the work of making a Tejano career together.

Television · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

Baby Bandito Puts a Skateboard Beside a Heist Plan

The Chilean crime series, which debuted in 2024 and returned for a second season in 2025, set speed and class distance against a reckless idea of escape.

Television / Culture · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

September Mornings Will Not Trade Cassandra’s Apartment for an Easy Lesson

The Brazilian series that debuted in 2021 tested a trans woman’s new independence when a child and his mother arrived with urgent needs.

Television · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

Two Joaquins on a Border That Has Just Moved

The 2023 Mexican western placed a legend beside a farmer to ask whose land and story survived the California Gold Rush.

Television · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

Monarca Cannot Separate the Tequila from the Company Books

The Mexican family saga that debuted in 2019 made an agave empire’s prestige answer to workers, secrets and succession.

Television · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

Lopez vs. Lopez Makes the Daughter a Coauthor

The sitcom that debuted in 2022 turned George and Mayan Lopez’s estrangement into family comedy while keeping the fictional family distinct from their lives.

Culture / Books & Writers · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

What Fits in Valeria Luiselli’s Seven Boxes

Luiselli’s 2019 novel asks what a family can carry across the Southwest—and what an archive can never hold for someone else.

Culture / Books & Writers · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

The Notebook Before the Microphone in The Poet X

In the 2018 novel in verse, Elizabeth Acevedo’s Dominican Harlem teenager finds a public voice only after protecting a private one.

Culture / Books & Writers · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

The Order’s Inheritance in Our Share of Night

The 2023 English edition of Mariana Enríquez’s horror novel turns a family bond into a struggle over a child’s future.

Culture / Books & Writers · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

Gabriela Wiener Refuses the Family Trophy

Wiener’s 2022 novel makes an inherited explorer story answer to the objects and people it tried to own.

Culture · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

Susana Baca’s Songs Enter a Student Workshop

A 2014 Berklee concert shows how Afro-Peruvian music can be taught through new arrangements without becoming a relic.

Culture · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

Totó la Momposina’s Tape Was Never Finished History

The 2015 reworking of La Candela Viva lets Totó la Momposina’s archive sound like an ongoing collaboration.

Culture · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

Violeta Parra Was Never Only a Voice

A historical Smithsonian recording and Chilean museum record reveal the cost of dividing Parra’s songs from her visual art.

Culture · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

Aurelio’s Laru Beya Holds More Than One Coast

The Honduran Garifuna artist’s 2011 album joins migration, food, love, and politics without making one song stand for a whole people.

Culture · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

The Space Between Doris Salcedo’s Tables

Salcedo’s 2008–10 installation gives grief a physical route without pretending the lost can be restored.

Culture · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

Beatriz González Put a Mother and Child on a Used Crib

The Colombian artist’s 1970 Lullaby places a popular mother-and-child image on used hospital furniture.

Culture · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

The Open Half of Quinta Monroy

The 2003–04 housing project locates design in what residents might change after the architect leaves.

Culture · LUCIR

A Museum Wing Measured in Routes, Not Just Square Feet

After September 2026 groundbreaking, Escobedo’s unfinished Tang Wing can be assessed through its proposed visitor routes.

Theater · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

Elliot Returns to a Family Already at War

Hudes’s 2006 play gives three generations of Puerto Rican service members different memories of the same institution.

Theater · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

The Recovery House in Apple Bottom Has Its Own Economy

A 2025 reading of Billini’s Miami play places care work beside an image business built on changing women’s bodies.

Theater · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

The Creature Is Not the Only Threat in Feathers and Teeth

In the 2015 Goodman premiere, Castro Smith used horror to make a grieving teenager’s certainty unstable.

Theater · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

What Julian Flores Carries Home from Combat

Zimmerman’s 2013 Goodman play treats battle’s allure as a problem that survives the battlefield.

Theater · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

Who Gets to Mourn the Orchard in El Nogalar?

Saracho’s 2011 Chekhov adaptation makes land ownership in northern Mexico inseparable from class and danger.

Theater · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

The River Bride Leaves Its Sisters a Choice

The 2016 Brazilian fable uses a stranger’s arrival to expose an argument already inside a family.

Theater · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

Mariela’s Colony Outlived Its Promise

First staged in 2005, Zacarías’s desert play measures an artist family against the colony it hoped to build.

Theater · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

Juan José Studies the Wrong Kind of Test

The 2010 Oregon Shakespeare Festival premiere turns a citizenship exam into an unruly walk through U.S. history.

Theater · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

The Children Build Their Own Country in Pinkolandia

In the 2013–14 rolling premiere, Thome’s sisters invented worlds in Wisconsin while adults wrestled with Chilean exile.

Theater · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

The Road Trip Has a Deadline in Miss You Like Hell

The 2016 Hudes-McKeown musical makes a mother-daughter reunion share the stage with immigration time.

Theater · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

The Treehouse Is a Bad Place to Hide

Scheer’s 2019 play gives teenage girls a treehouse refuge and a dangerous borrowed name.

Theater · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK

Sancocho Keeps Cooking While the Sisters Argue

Cato’s 2022 Puerto Rican family play gives an argument a cooking task that cannot wait for perfect agreement.

Culture / Tech · De Todo Un Poco

Be Conduit of Good: Join LED’s Digital Literacy Movement

Culture · De Todo Un Poco

Make a Difference in Sosúa, D.R.: Join Us in Supplying Food and Life Essentials to Families

Culture · De Todo Un Poco

Why I took the Attempted Takedown of Richard Montañez Personally

Culture · De Todo Un Poco

The Power of Humor

Culture · De Todo Un Poco

Accompanied By Grief

Culture / Tech · De Todo Un Poco

How to Combat the Evils of Disinformation and Misinformation

Culture · De Todo Un Poco

Principles of Great Leadership—Can Often Be Thankless But It Is Not Always Invisible

Culture / Tech · De Todo Un Poco

The TikTok Panic & Staying Ahead of the Ever-Changing Digital Space

Culture · De Todo Un Poco

The Disparate Advocate: A Methodical Madness

Culture · De Todo Un Poco

Destroy the Hispanic Industrial Complex

Culture · De Todo Un Poco

Men Gotta Step Up

Culture · De Todo Un Poco

Ones & Zeroes

Culture · De Todo Un Poco

Xenophobia Won't Let You Be Great

Culture · De Todo Un Poco

The Lies We Are Told About Beauty — Featurism And Myths About Symmetry

Culture · De Todo Un Poco

What Will You Do When Genocide Catches Up To You?

Culture · De Todo Un Poco

Love, Myself

Culture · De Todo Un Poco

A New Day, An Old Hell: The Tired & Purposely Erroneous Latinx Discourse

Culture / Books & Writers · De Todo Un Poco

Indie Bookstore: Owning & Running Our Communities

Culture · De Todo Un Poco

When Haiti Bleeds

Culture · De Todo Un Poco

Losing New York City

Film · De Todo Un Poco

In the Heights & The Widespread Erasure of Black Latinx Lives Across the Cultural & Political Landscape

Culture · De Todo Un Poco

Who Gives a Shit if the Majority of Hispanics Don’t Know or Use Latinx

Culture · De Todo Un Poco

A Clash of the Oppressed: An Intimate Look At Black & Brown People’s Relationship in America

Culture · De Todo Un Poco

Now is the Time for Reparations and UBI

Culture / Tech · De Todo Un Poco

Nowhere to Turn to but Social Media: Indie Media is No Better for Us than Mainstream

Culture · De Todo Un Poco

Politicians Need to Stop Centering the Middle Class Because it is Racist, Classist, Sexist, and Ableist

Culture · De Todo Un Poco

American Dirt and Beyond Superficial Diversity and Inclusion

Culture · De Todo Un Poco

Between Two Swords: The Dangers of White People Choosing our Reps

Culture · De Todo Un Poco

The Gift and The Curse of the Exceptional Black and Brown People

Culture · De Todo Un Poco

The Overwhelming Brownness of Julián Castro and Me

Culture · De Todo Un Poco

Imperialism and the Good Immigrant

Culture · De Todo Un Poco

The Positivity Movement is a Malignant Cancer as it Currently Is

Culture · De Todo Un Poco

Destroy the White Supremacist Within You If You Want to Stop Mass Shootings

Culture · De Todo Un Poco

On Concentration Camps and Corrupted Identities

Television · De Todo Un Poco

Ava DuVernay Pens a Love Letter to Black and Brown Men with When They See Us

Culture · De Todo Un Poco

The Ex-Canonization of My Grandmother Nigela Hernandez

Culture · OkayAfrica

César Vargas: How I Became Black

Culture · HuffPost

Black in a Foreign Land: In Defense of Dominican Identity

Culture · HuffPost

Do #BlackLivesMatter to Hispanics? It Depends on Who You Ask

Television · Okayplayer

One Player’s Opinion: César Vargas On Why SNL Should #DumpTrump

Film · UPLIFTT

A Star is Born in Pocha: Manifest Destiny—Veronica Sixtos

Culture · HuffPost

To Be a Latino in This Country and to Be Relatively Conscious Is to Be In a Rage Almost All the Time

Culture · HuffPost

I Have a Dream -- That Latinos Are Seen Beyond the Prism of Immigration

Culture · HuffPost

Why I Fight to End Inequality and Racism

Culture · HuffPost

The Error of Blaming the #Latino Community for Celebrities' Flops

Culture · HuffPost

A Message to The Black and Latino Youth

Culture · HuffPost

How First- and Second-Generation Hispanics Can Help Each Other

Culture · UPLIFTT

Best Latina Rapper Alive: Exclusive Interview with @AyeYoSmiley

Film · Fox News

Opinion: Latinos and Superheroes – The conversation continues

Culture · HuffPost

How to Uplift the Artistic Latino Community

Culture · Fox News

Opinion: Michelle Rodriguez is offering a 'non-apology' to minority remarks

Culture · UPLIFTT

White Puerto Rican Migration and the Effacement of Blackness

Culture · Fox News

Opinion: We Killed Eric Garner

Culture · Voxxi

Quórum Call: Hispanic arts

Film · UPLIFTT

The Privilege of White Hispanic II: Facts, Stats, and Cognitive Dissonance

Culture · HuffPost

The Privilege of White Hispanic: Leaving Out the Rest

Culture · Fox News

Opinion: We Are All To Blame For Obscene Celebrity Worship That Led To Leak Of Nude Pics

Culture · UPLIFTT

Alt Control Delete: Interview with Ramón Govea

Culture · UPLIFTT

A Realistic View: #HireALatinaHost

Film · UPLIFTT

Kenneth Castillo: Exclusive Interview

Film · UPLIFTT

Why Latino Networks and Publications Are Tanking

Culture · UPLIFTT

Alec Baldwin vs. the Hispanic Society

Culture · UPLIFTT

Being Latino Is Not a Crutch

Film · UPLIFTT

To The Critics Of Alfonso Cuarón: You’re Wrong

Culture · UPLIFTT

Not a Big Fan of My Brother’s Keeper

Culture · UPLIFTT

The Price of Privilege

Culture · HuffPost

Alec Baldwin vs. the Hispanic Society

Culture · HuffPost

Why Latino Networks and Publications Are Tanking

Culture · HuffPost

The Price of Privilege

Film · UPLIFTT

Hugo Fernandez: Exclusive Interview

Television · Fox News

Opinion: Stephen Colbert Is Welcome, But Would It Have Killed Them To Have A Latino?

Culture · UPLIFTT

Dear White Xenophobes (and Misinformed Latinos)

Culture · UPLIFTT

Montera: The One-Woman Tour De Force

Culture · UPLIFTT

Divided and Conquered

Film · UPLIFTT

The Problem with Calling Mainstream “White Narrative”

Culture · UPLIFTT

United People for Latinos in Film TV and Theater (UPLIFTT)

Culture · HuffPost

Being Latino Is Not a Crutch

Film · HuffPost

Latinowood: Offering Solutions, Not Just Stats

Culture · HuffPost

The Brown Invasion and the Mistrust of Academia

Culture · HuffPost

The Downside to Positive Stereotypes

Culture · HuffPost

Not a Big Fan of My Brother's Keeper

Film · Fox News

To The Critics Of Alfonso Cuarón: You're Wrong

Culture · UPLIFTT

Response to the Critics of The New York Times’ Latino Problem Article: You’re Wrong

Culture · UPLIFTT

The New York Times’ Latino Problem: @nytimes #HireALatinoColumnist

Film · Fox News

Hollywood's Latino Problem: Vanity Fair, Jerry Seinfeld, And The Myth Of Meritocracy

Television · Fox News

Saturday Night Live's Latino Problem

Film · UPLIFTT

Narco Cultura

Film · UPLIFTT

NUVOtv, UPLIFTT, and Nu Point of View: The Emerging Latino Filmmakers

Culture · UPLIFTT

Where are the Latino Investors?

Culture · UPLIFTT

Catie Waters: Exclusive Interview

Film · UPLIFTT

Pushing Dreams

Film · UPLIFTT

Melonie Diaz, the Power of Diversity, and Fruitvale Station

Film · UPLIFTT

200 Cartas

Culture · UPLIFTT

US Latinos in World War II

Film · UPLIFTT

Latinos Beyond Reel

Culture · UPLIFTT

How to Hoodwink a Nation: Divisive Rhetoric

Culture · UPLIFTT

Latinos in Hip Hop & Reggaeton

Culture · UPLIFTT

Latino Leaders? Clowns Need Not Apply

Culture · UPLIFTT

Juvenile Justice

Culture · UPLIFTT

The Latino Singularity: Offering Solutions, Not Just Stats

Television · UPLIFTT

Habla Women and The Dirtiest Word in a Men’s World

Culture · UPLIFTT

Poverty Porn and The Latino Curse

Film · UPLIFTT

First Timers 101

Film · UPLIFTT

Latino Enough for Hollywood

Film · UPLIFTT

Latino Bane

Film · Fox News

The Emasculation of the Latino Actor

Culture · NBC Latino

Opinion: When Stop and Frisk taught me I was a menace to society