Marisol Cortez is the Executive Editor of Deceleration. As a creative writer and community-based scholar, she explores place and power in South Texas and for Deceleration covers ecojustice arts and humanities.
Inoculate yourself and our movements against anti-trans disinfo and new forms of climate denial through ‘prebunking’ comics, TikTok vids, and drinking games.
Climate denialists have long deployed the nefarious practice of ‘manufacturing doubt’ to undermine public understanding of the scientific consensus on global warming. Now anti-trans movements are borrowing the technique to poison trans healthcare research and ban care.
Orgs like Environmental Progress and Deep Green Resistance show the need to study the labels on ‘green’ groups to avoid carrying water for fascists and other far-right reactionaries.
It’s dewberry season in Texas. Some practical advice and poetic reflections on red wasps, slippery slopes, and the exuberance of foraging in a time of peril and suffering.
Against the might of an economy organized around disposability and extraction, ceramics artist Veronica Castillo and Society of Native Nations team up to reacquaint local families with ancient and intimate relations to clay, body, and earth.
On November 17 at 9am CST, join Deceleration and Environmental Humanities at UTSA in a co-sponsored virtual keynote panel on environmental justice and de/coloniality. What’s that, you ask?
“Better and richer strategies [for addressing climate crisis] require a different way of thinking and knowing as well as active engagement to reclaim and conserve the spaces where these alternatives can grow and flourish.”
Reportbacks from this year’s ASLE conference, highlighting the work of First Nations ‘fish philosopher’ Zoe S. Todd and geographer/sound artist AM Kanngeiser.
San Antonio Office of Sustainability and Texas Creative ad agency have partnered with local grassroots groups serving target communities in the effort to gather critical data that will inform the City of San Antonio’s efforts.
