Arts & Letters - Deceleration (Page 2)

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

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.

By Kit O’Connell

/ 14 Aug 2025

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

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

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

By Michelle Yates

/ 13 Aug 2025

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

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

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.

By Kamala Platt

/ 13 Aug 2025

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

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

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.

By Marisol Cortez

/ 6 Aug 2025

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

Punk Power, People Power: Las Hijas de la Madre are Perfecting Art as Resistance

As the Latinx feminist punk band drops singles and gears up to release a multifaceted album project, Deceleration takes a dive into the collective’s work and ethos.

By James Courtney

/ 9 Jul 2025

Punk Power, People Power: Las Hijas de la Madre are Perfecting Art as Resistance

ARTS: ‘They Want to Kill Greta Thunberg’

A poem by Shelley Ettinger.

By Shelley Ettinger

/ 7 Jul 2025

ARTS: ‘They Want to Kill Greta Thunberg’

In ‘Urinetown,’ New Works SA Tackles Water Justice While Centering Community, Accessibility, and Sustainability

Students at New Works SA are able to process complex global realities preparing for ‘Urinetown’ while living the joy of an authentic theater experience that provides roles they can grow into.

By James Courtney

/ 14 May 2025

In ‘Urinetown,’ New Works SA Tackles Water Justice While Centering Community, Accessibility, and Sustainability

‘SUNAK’ (‘Awaken’) Music Video Release Celebrates Migration as a Birthright of All Beings

Ceiba ili’s new song, ‘Sunak,’ sung in Kotik and Spanish, has a buoyantly infectious flavor. Better yet: It is a jam with a message for our time.

By Greg Harman

/ 8 May 2025

‘SUNAK’ (‘Awaken’) Music Video Release Celebrates Migration as a Birthright of All Beings

VIDEO: Words for Birds and the Trees They Live In

‘Word for Birds’: Ahead of yet another public hearing on a proposed mass tree removal, a group of San Antonio poets stand in solidarity with the tree and bird protectors of Brackenridge Park.

By Greg Harman

/ 25 Apr 2022

Why I’m Making ‘The Bee Maker’ Available Free to Teachers

Ancient Greece, Vietnamese Buddhism, the biodiversity collapse, and Texas students being failed by the system helped inspire ‘The Bee Maker.’

By Greg Harman

/ 19 Jan 2022

VIDEO: Words for Birds 2021

Marisol Cortez Last weekend Deceleration co-hosted the 13th annual Words for Birds, a celebration and cry for protection of winged relatives for National Poetry Month. Historically an in-person

By Marisol Cortez

/ 29 Apr 2021

Words for Birds 2020: Poetics for Pandemics

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

By Marisol Cortez

/ 30 Apr 2020

Words for Birds 2020: Poetics for Pandemics