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.
Deceleration · 14: Rights of Nature Movement Reaches San Antonio
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In Spring of 2012, at the tail end of my time teaching in Lawrence, Kansas, I had the privilege
The upcoming Carrizo Comecrudo Tribunal for Human Rights connects the dots between petrochemical development, violence against Indigenous women, environmental justice, border militarization, and migration.
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When land or community
Embodied research notes toward a bird movement vocabulary.
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I met Fabiola Ochoa Torralba years ago, helping plan the International Women’s Day march. Around San Antonio she’s
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1. First up: “Reimagining the Future After the Corona Crisis,” a hot-off-the-presses open letter by New Roots for the Economy, written collaboratively by members of the international degrowth
We are excited to present Deceleration’s first foray into DIY publishing—an avian-themed poetry zine called Words for Birds 2020: Poetics for Pandemics. Read it here … with two bonus
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Bird is still the word!
Join us for the 12th annual Words For Birds, a two-part event celebrating all things avian for National Poetry Month. While
Introducing The Aerocene Project to San Antonio: a collaborative open-source movement cultivating fossil-free mobility grounded in planetary ethics and atmospheric sensing.
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Deceleration is excited to roll out some
Environmental writer Mobi Warren reflects on the science and pedagogy of nature poetry.
EDITOR’S NOTE: In the fall of 2019, environmental writer Mobi Warren taught a community-based writing class
Since November 2019, under a new program called Asylum Cooperative Agreement, the U.S. government has shipped 536 asylum-seekers to Honduras and El Salvador in what witnesses call “boxcars in
As tensions around Matamoros camps rise, witnesses observe ominous signs that ‘Remain in Mexico’ may soon be supplanted by dangerous new policies of shipping asylum-seekers by plane to unfamiliar countries.
Witnesses report two disturbing new trends: parents who send children over the border unaccompanied to escape the “Remain in Mexico” tent camps, and asylum-seekers deported to unsafe third countries.
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The White Earth Band of Ojibwe Legally Recognized the Rights of Wild Rice. Here’s Why.
Editor’s Note: Originally published last year in YES! Magazine, this piece by Indigenous
