Since 1954
Marisol Cortez is the co-editor of Deceleration. As a writer and community-based scholar, her work is grounded in Chicanx and decolonial movements for justice and earth protection in South Texas. After graduating with her Ph.D. in Cultural Studies, she has walked between academic, activist, and artistic worlds. She is author of the award-winning cli-fi novel Luz at Midnight (FlowerSong Press 2020).
Jessica Witzel’s autopsy report raises an important question: How many other heat-related deaths among unhoused residents are being erased by the failure to collect and report accurate data on climate-related mortality?
Media attention often focuses on trans teens fleeing the anti-trans states they’re living in. But what about those who can’t leave?
After many months of fruitless efforts to get Jessica help, our case was finally moving, and for a couple days we were hopeful. Then the heat dome hit.
