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Jan 18, 2025 | 
sacurrent.com | Marisol Cortez
By Marisol Cortez, Deceleration on Sat, Jan 18, 2025 at 12:57 pm
This article was originally published by Deceleration, a nonprofit online journal of environmental justice. Sign up for their newsletter here. Editor’s Note: Jessica Witzel’s medical autopsy tells an institutional lie. It is a sleight of hand that effects a kind of double erasure.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
deceleration.news | Marisol Cortez |I Call
Editor’s Note: Jessica Witzel’s medical autopsy tells an institutional lie. It is a sleight of hand that effects a kind of double erasure. In failing to accurately codify and count heat-related deaths, local government invisibilizes the disproportionate impact of climate crisis on the sickest and poorest—unhoused people, especially those with serious mental illness or who use substances, especially methamphetamines.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
texasobserver.org | Marisol Cortez
This article was originally published by Deceleration, a nonprofit online journal of environmental justice. Sign up for their newsletter here. Last summer, Jessica Witzel collapsed, convulsed, and died in the unshaded driveway of a San Antonio gas station during one of the hottest days of 2024, itself the hottest year on record in San Antonio.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
texassignal.com | Marisol Cortez |Jessica Montoya Coggins |Jef Rouner
Imagine a professional wrestling match. Lightning-fast exchanges of holds and strikes, death-defying moves off the top rope, slams that look like they should break a person in half. Have you got it? Okay, now add full musical numbers right out of Broadway. That’s the sort of innovation that happens when LGBTQ+ people run wrestling. This example comes from Fight Opera in Austin. The promotion began booking shows in June 2022, mostly on the stately grounds of the Pink Flamingo Plant Company.
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Jan 11, 2025 | 
sacurrent.com | Marisol Cortez
Last summer, Jessica Witzel collapsed, convulsed, and died in the unshaded driveway of a San Antonio gas station during one of the hottest days of 2024, itself the
hottest year on record in San Antonio. Her death was reported by area media at the time, based on the accounts of first responders, as the likely consequence of the heat dome that blanketed much of the state under excessive heat warnings all that week.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
texassignal.com | Jessica Montoya Coggins |Jef Rouner |Marisol Cortez
This article was originally published by DecelerationLast summer, Jessica Witzel collapsed, convulsed, and died in the unshaded driveway of a San Antonio gas station during one of the hottest days of 2024, itself the hottest year on record in San Antonio. Her death was reported by area media at the time, based on the accounts of first responders, as the likely consequence of the heat dome that blanketed much of the state under excessive heat warnings all that week.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
deceleration.news | Marisol Cortez |I Call
Last summer, Jessica Witzel collapsed, convulsed, and died in the unshaded driveway of a San Antonio gas station during one of the hottest days of 2024, itself the hottest year on record in San Antonio. Her death was reported by area media at the time, based on the accounts of first responders, as the likely consequence of the heat dome that blanketed much of the state under excessive heat warnings all that week.
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Dec 29, 2024 | 
deceleration.news | Marisol Cortez
It’s been something of a breakthrough year for Deceleration. After eight years producing free environmental justice news and analysis for the community on the side of jobs, kids, and life, 2024 was the year we finally managed to wrangle the funds needed for two editorial staff able to give the project our full attention.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
texassignal.com | Jessica Montoya Coggins |Jef Rouner |Marisol Cortez
Visiting the new Vincent Valdez career retrospective, Just a Dream, at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston is like admiring a sunrise, only for the sunrise to admire you back. It’s gargantuan, liminal, and positively radioactive in its impact. Born in San Antonio in 1977, Valdez has long been one of the nation’s most impressive artists.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
texassignal.com | Jessica Montoya Coggins |Jef Rouner |Marisol Cortez
For many women in Texas, obtaining birth control is surprisingly difficult. It often involves a doctor’s visit, a prescription, and monthly refills. But there’s a company that’s trying to make that easier. Pandia Health was founded in 2016 and is now one of the largest online health clinics that provides and ships personalized prescription birth control, acne care, and even menopause treatment. Not only are their services convenient, but they are also confidential.
