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.
What makes El Paso shooting feel different is its utter expectedness, following as it did on the heels of Trump’s racist attacks on Brown and Black Congresswomen, the ominous “send her back” chanting that followed, and the endless, ongoing dehumanization and internment of migrants and children arriv
Editor’s Note: Deceleration is pleased to offer this guest column by Jovanni Reyes, a longtime anti-war voice in San Antonio, which chronicles Gloria La Riva’s local stop on
Bird-dispersing chemical warfare comes to the Westside’s little Aztlan, our ‘place of herons.’
Editor’s Note: This is the second of a two-part series. Click here for part one,
How the slow attention of local women exposed an institutional war on the birds of San Antonio.
Editor’s Note: This is the first of a two-part series. Read part
About 10 years ago, when I was fresh and young and newly 30, I was working for the first time as a full-time organizer on a campaign against the expansion of a South Texas nuclear power plant. When COP 15 hit in December 2009, I got it in my head somehow that the best way to connect the dots between
As the Trump administration has amped up its border wall talk, these villages have expanded both in number and in scope, drawing critical connections between the ongoing destruction of sacred lands and border wildlife to the violent rhetorics and policies of dehumanization that have led to family se
After arrest and deportation, Mapache urges people not to let fear of ICE keep them from activism.
Marisol Cortez
Earlier this summer, we posted an interview with 18-year-old Dreamer Sergio
In celebration of Camp Cicada–now coming up on its 7th week lodged in the side of an ICE administrative hub on San Antonio’s Northeast side–Abolish ICE SATX
Anti-war veterans group, About Face, calls Witte Museum to account over George W. Bush exhibit
Marisol Cortez
I was living in Northern California when the Bush administration invaded Iraq in
By Marisol Cortez
On Tuesday, July 17th, community members from throughout Central and South Texas answered a national call for the abolition of ICE, moved both by the recent horror
Marisol Cortez
A couple Sundays back, in late March, I finally get around to visiting Gil and Jo Ann Murillo where they have lived for decades in Government Hill—a
Last week, Deceleration ran an article by Bettie Lyons of the American Indian Law Alliance calling on people of conscience to understand DACA from an Indigenous People’s perspective. To
