Deadline: Rolling
Contact: Marisol Cortez, Executive Editor, Deceleration
Email: marisol@deceleration.news

Looking to widen the activist reach of your scholarship? Consider submitting to Deceleration (deceleration.news).

We are a nonprofit online journal producing original news and analysis responding to our shared ecological, political, and cultural crises. We write at the intersection of environment and justice—journalistically, academically, and creatively—with emphasis on our home communities and bioregion (the watersheds of San Antonio, South Texas, and the Gulf South, broadly). Deceleration is dedicated to cultivating radical imagination that goes to the roots of climate disturbance in historical systems of oppression while expanding and deepening the sorts of solutions we put into practice for protecting and creating the commons.

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, we aspire to create a community space for sharing both the ideas and practice required for a just transition. We aim to fight forward as well as fight back (in the words of the Bronx Cooperative Development Initiative) to support the development of community networks of care and resilience rather than simply chronicling catastrophe.

Deceleration is actively seeking proposals and pitches not only for short- and long-form reporting, creative nonfiction essay, and analysis within and beyond our geography that fit within the scope of our mission. We are also looking for environmental humanities academics interested in submitting written pieces that make their scholarly research accessible to a community/activist audience. We welcome pitches for podcast interviews, multi-media work, and experimental formats as well.

Deceleration’s stories are (typically) published under Creative Commons license and are free to republish with proper attribution. Our stories and podcasts have appeared in Public Health Watch, Truthout, WhoWhatWhy, Esperanza Project, Texas Observer, Texas Signal, Resilience, Monthly Review, La Voz, San Antonio Current, NowCastSA, and elsewhere. Deceleration is a member of the Association of Alternative Newsmedia, Local Independent Online News Publishers, Covering Climate Now news collaborative, and the Truthout Center for Grassroots Journalism.

Oh yeah, and we pay. See submission guidelines and rates here: https://deceleration.news/submissions/

Posted on February 18, 2025