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.
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
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.
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.
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 the international degrowth
This past week the environmental humanities arm of Deceleration took two days off work and Xanax’ed our way through nightmare flights to/from Detroit, where we joined up with