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.
Happy MLK Day, amid fallout from the churning sickness of white nationalist grievance that finally spewed forth in the attempted auto-coup of January 6, 2021. In that context, we
EDITOR’S NOTE: Few pundits are expecting a clear winner from the 2020 presidential election on November 4. Most expect that sorting out mail-in ballots and legal challenges will
Here are ways to support the movement for Black lives here in SATX—including taking the streets, organizing around local demands, and pressing forward toward prison abolition and alternatives to
Deceleration · 14: Rights of Nature Movement Reaches San Antonio
Marisol Cortez
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.
Marisol Cortez
When land or community
Embodied research notes toward a bird movement vocabulary.
Marisol Cortez
I met Fabiola Ochoa Torralba years ago, helping plan the International Women’s Day march. Around San Antonio she’s
Marisol Cortez
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
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
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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.
Introducing The Aerocene Project to San Antonio: a collaborative open-source movement cultivating fossil-free mobility grounded in planetary ethics and atmospheric sensing.
Marisol Cortez
Deceleration is excited to roll
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
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
