Category: Opinion
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“Mad Bills to Pay”- A Digest, and Conversation with Director Joel Alfonso Vargas
By Max Gonzalez Winner of the 2025 “NEXT Special Jury Award from Sundance, American Independent Award from the 2025 Denver Film Festival, among other awards, “Mad Bills to Pay”, the directorial debut of Joel Alfonso Vargas, is a wonderfully crafted film full of a large amount of importance. This film centers itself around a Dominican…
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Opinion: It’s a Good Day to be Indigenous
As Indians, many of us tend to think of time differently than the traditional Western and linear way of thinking of time, seeing a more cyclical worldview of time, with different cycles and repeating ceremonial structures. We also see the over 2000 Indian nations spread throughout Abya Yala, from Inuit land in the north, to Yagán…
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Opinion: CU Boulder Does Not Deserve 150 Years
This was in part inspired by a recent friend of mine’s article titled “Reflections of an Arab Student at CU,” but also news from the University of Colorado (CU) Boulder. On Oct. 3, CU Boulder announced its plan for its 150th anniversary in 2026, and this announcement has reminded me of the blood and tears…
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Opinion: Reflections of an Arab Student at CU
On Friday, Sept. 5, when I should have been driving through US-36 back to Aurora, Colorado to see my parents, I decided to watch a movie that GUT-C and SJP were hosting to fundraise for 19-year-old Feras and 20-year-old Razan. The movie was “The Time That Remains,” which reviews say captures “the absurdity” of living…
El Diario de la Gente 