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.
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.
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.
A year-long effort to get Garcia off the streets exposed shortcomings of local and state practices—even as the extreme cold of Winter Storm Uri took both of Garcia’s feet. Now extreme heat likely contributed to his death.
