One additional writing project is Deceleration, an online journal of environmental justice thought and practice I co-edit with environmental journalist/activist Greg Harman. It’s a space that serves as a receptacle for a lot of my activist energies and eco-theoretical impulses. Our goal with Deceleration has been to cultivate an institutional space outside of journalism and academia for community-based EJ news reporting and theory, inspired by intellectual and political movements around the world for degrowth, buen vivir, the right to the city, and the rights of nature/mother earth.

Read more about our vision and mission here.

For a deeper dive into the embodied theory/praxis that informs the site, see this essay, published in Academic Labor: Research and Artistry.

And here is some of the writing I’ve done for the site that I’m proudest of:

• “Let’s Meet Up by the Water: A Reportback from ASLE 2017“
• “The Fire of Fox is Within You“
• “The Birds and Dogs of Latinx Eco-Comix“
• “Flip That House: Turning Gentrification into Political Art“
• “Interfaces 1 (Government Hill)“
• “The Courage to Question“
• “In Praise of Nuisance Heronries (Part I)“
• “In Praise of Nuisance Heronries (Part II)“
• “Decelerator of the Year (Or, Type Slowly)“
• “Poetry as Citizen Science“
• “Fabiola Ochoa Torralba On Decolonizing Dance“
• “Remembering Laura Sánchez“
• “Talkin’ Trash with Mary Elizabeth Cantú of Spare Parts“
• “Research Roundup: How Listening to Place Can Help Dismantle the Colonial Climate Crisis“
• “‘His Name is Albert,’ Part I: Death by Climate Change“
• “‘His Name is Albert,’ Part II: The Murphy Method, Or: Mutual Aid Gets the Goods“
• “‘His Name is Albert,’ Part III: The Longest Night of the Year“
• “‘Against Terricide’: Arturo Escobar Speaking in San Antonio on Decolonial Movements“
• “Anti-Trans Disinfo Creeping on Climate Justice Spaces“
• “Manufacturing Doubt and the Case of Environmental ‘Progress’“
• “Deceleration’s Guide to Anti-Trans and Anti-Climate Disinfo“
• “The Woman Who Died in the Texas Heat on a San Antonio Sidewalk Was My Friend“
• “‘I Dreamed I Was Replacing People’s Air Conditioners’: Speaking with Heat Pump Promotora Debbie Ponce“
• “Not Everyone Can Leave: Survival Advice from Trans Teens in Texas“
• “Her Body was 126 Degrees after She Died; Bexar County Medical Examiner Blames Drugs“
• “Messages from Jess’s Last Days: An Autopsy“

Also! Deceleration is actively seeking contributing writers and mediamakers, so if our interests and emphases resonate with your own, submit or pitch us at editor@deceleration.news.

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