Marisol Cortez is the Executive Editor of Deceleration. She inhabits the terrain between artistic, activist, and academic worlds working as a writer, editor, and community-based scholar.
University administrators’ rush to obey not only abandoned targeted faculty and students—it also permitted an insidious slide toward eliminating entire fields of study.
A close reading of the last week of Jessica Witzel’s life reveals predictable failures by public agencies, facilitated by the dehumanization that housed residents often direct at their unhoused neighbors. It also reveals possibilities for neighbors banding together to meet all residents’ ‘true level
Jessica Witzel’s autopsy report raises an important question: How many other heat-related deaths among unhoused residents are being erased by the failure to collect and report accurate data on climate-related mortality?
Despite its technical packaging, efforts to reform metal recycling codes reveal the complex and emotional political dynamics that produce—but also disrupt—environmental injustice.
A new grassroots project pools funds, time, and working class know-how to install high-efficiency mini split air conditioning units in the hottest homes on San Antonio’s Southwest side.
The People’s University for Palestine is a new popular education project that compiles resources for educators and community members who see learning and teaching about genocide in Gaza as central to halting it.
After many months of fruitless efforts to get Jessica help, our case was finally moving. And for a couple days we were hopeful. Then the heat dome hit.
What do building relationships of trust and care between neighbors have to do with climate justice? Everything, according to local organizer Kara Jordan, an herbalist, regenerative agriculture specialist, and mother whose work highlights the interdependence of all beings.
