ASLE 2025

Deceleration’s report back from the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment’s 16th biennial gathering. Writing from the cutting edge of environmental justice arts and culture research.

ASLE 2025: Can Poetry Save the World from Extractivist Plunder and Climate Violence?

By Carolina Hinojosa ● Arts and Letters ● August 15, 2025

These scholars of multi-lingual poetry from Latin America say yes—and that the Earth has a language that is archived by poetic thinking.

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ASLE 2025: Femme Friendship as Eco-Resistance—From Barton Springs Attack to Poland’s ‘Sister Rivers’

By Kit O’Connell ● Arts and Letters ● August 14, 2025

Amid rising attacks on trans people, ideas from ‘queer ecology’ can light the way toward an alternative environmental politics capable of honoring ‘femme-coded’ ways of thriving beside and beyond our waterways.

ASLE 2025: As Attacks on Unhoused Increase, Kaia Sand Archives Alternatives to Criminalization of ‘Unwanted Persons’

By Michelle Yates & Marisol Cortez ● Arts and Letters ● August 13, 2025

In her plenary presentation at last month’s gathering of the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment, Kaia Sand detailed the many ways we construct homeless people as “unwanted persons,” but also the creativity embodied in alternative first responder systems that enact “care work without violence.”

ASLE 2025: ‘Collective Atmospheres’ and the Significance of Feeling the World

By Kamala Platt ● Arts and Letters ● August 13, 2025

From her many decades working to make space for thinking at the intersections of nature, culture, and justice, scholar-‘artivist’ Kamala Platt reflects on highlights from the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment’s biennial gathering last month.

ASLE 2025: Birds, Barrios, Borders, & Books—Chicanx Poetics and Publishing from the Belly of the Beast

By Marisol Cortez ● Arts and Letters ● August 6, 2025

Deceleration assembled a panel of South Texas writer-activists at the 16th convening of the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment to explore what it means to write and publish for Earth protection and human rights in a time of authoritarian cruelty.