M Cortez
@mcortez.net
I write across genre about place and power for all the borderwalking weirdos out there. Creative work @ mcortez.net. Public theory @deceleration.news
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Call for submissions to our Winter 2026 Creative Review! Seeking creative responses across genres to the global crisis of coral reefs and oceans.
#CallForSubs #WritingCommunity #poetry #fiction #photography
#CallForSubs #WritingCommunity #poetry #fiction #photography
December 9, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Call for submissions to our Winter 2026 Creative Review! Seeking creative responses across genres to the global crisis of coral reefs and oceans.
#CallForSubs #WritingCommunity #poetry #fiction #photography
#CallForSubs #WritingCommunity #poetry #fiction #photography
told today my classes may not make, so i made flyers. utsa english majors: take my classes!
December 20, 2025 at 1:54 AM
told today my classes may not make, so i made flyers. utsa english majors: take my classes!
It’s been a long time since I LOLed for real
"Right on cue, here they come with their cancel cudgels—it’s the intolerant left trying to cancel me for the 'thought crime' of farting (loudly) at the height of my sax solo and then getting dizzy (from saxophone exertion, NOT farting exertion) and crashing into nearby scaffolding."
Well, Well, Well, If It Isn’t the Woke Mob Here to Cancel Me for Loudly Farting at the Height of My Saxophone Solo
Would you look at that, right on cue, here they come with their cancel cudgels—it’s the intolerant left, trying to cancel me for the “thought crime...
buff.ly
December 19, 2025 at 3:48 AM
It’s been a long time since I LOLed for real
compiling lists of books, books to assign, books to read, books on my phone. want to read/buy/borrow/rent about billion books today, and everyday.
December 5, 2025 at 8:06 PM
compiling lists of books, books to assign, books to read, books on my phone. want to read/buy/borrow/rent about billion books today, and everyday.
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Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work.
Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
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Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
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November 18, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work.
Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
one of my fave things about helping create @deceleration.news is the way we can bring light to the amazing beautiful things people are doing in spite of all the ugliness we swim in daily. this podcast's just one example:
New podcast up with organizers from @vetsaboutface.bsky.social on their #RighttoRefuse campaign, as part of a gallery exhibit of anti-war and anti-imperialist veteran art for #ArmisticeDay.
deceleration.news/podcast-anti...
deceleration.news/podcast-anti...
PODCAST: Antiwar Vets Urge Soldiers to Claim their 'Right to Refuse' Illegal and Immoral Orders – Deceleration
In a community conversation closing out a gallery exhibit organized by ABOUT Face: Veterans Against the War, panelists from Texas and California discuss the histories of veteran activism against war a...
deceleration.news
November 13, 2025 at 8:34 PM
one of my fave things about helping create @deceleration.news is the way we can bring light to the amazing beautiful things people are doing in spite of all the ugliness we swim in daily. this podcast's just one example:
so the one good thing about TX's new school library bill is that you can see exactly which books #NEISD removed from library shelves. um, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings "does not meet selection criteria"? The Color Purple? Woman Hollering Creek? huh, interesting
www.neisd.net/subsites/Lib...
www.neisd.net/subsites/Lib...
NEISD - Library - Weeded Book Log
www.neisd.net
November 13, 2025 at 2:13 AM
so the one good thing about TX's new school library bill is that you can see exactly which books #NEISD removed from library shelves. um, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings "does not meet selection criteria"? The Color Purple? Woman Hollering Creek? huh, interesting
www.neisd.net/subsites/Lib...
www.neisd.net/subsites/Lib...
just canceled my #spotify account...i don't fuck with companies that run ads for ICE recruitment.
other companies to choose from: boycotthere.com
other companies to choose from: boycotthere.com
Boycott Here – Join the Economic Noncooperation Movement
boycotthere.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:20 AM
just canceled my #spotify account...i don't fuck with companies that run ads for ICE recruitment.
other companies to choose from: boycotthere.com
other companies to choose from: boycotthere.com
if Jim hadn't prodded me i may never have launched this book officially. still haven't launched I Call on the Earth--the pandemic interrupted things. very happy to be reading alongside Jim's new Thoreau chapbook, tho, and our friend James's forthcoming book on Thoreau and abolition.
November 7, 2025 at 11:02 PM
if Jim hadn't prodded me i may never have launched this book officially. still haven't launched I Call on the Earth--the pandemic interrupted things. very happy to be reading alongside Jim's new Thoreau chapbook, tho, and our friend James's forthcoming book on Thoreau and abolition.
listening to fronterizx beats getting my thoughts in order, loving it panchaxbeatz.bandcamp.com/album/raices...
Raices Profunds EP, by PanchaX Beatz
8 track album
panchaxbeatz.bandcamp.com
October 5, 2025 at 7:48 PM
listening to fronterizx beats getting my thoughts in order, loving it panchaxbeatz.bandcamp.com/album/raices...
read my homie’s elegant story
The principles of #mutualaid that are increasingly being built into community #climate efforts—out of deep and growing necessity. Some case studies here to be aware of.
deceleration.news/trump-crushi...
#climate #publichealth #globalwarming #activism #cities
deceleration.news/trump-crushi...
#climate #publichealth #globalwarming #activism #cities
October 3, 2025 at 12:59 AM
read my homie’s elegant story
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October 2, 2025 at 10:46 AM
South TX friends and fam--gonna be at UTRGV (@utrgvnewsroom.bsky.social) next Monday for a writing workshop/reading from The Bird Church, and on Tuesday moderating a talk by musician/sound studies scholar @jonathanjleal.bsky.social. see flyer for times and location. come by if you're around <3
September 30, 2025 at 2:28 AM
South TX friends and fam--gonna be at UTRGV (@utrgvnewsroom.bsky.social) next Monday for a writing workshop/reading from The Bird Church, and on Tuesday moderating a talk by musician/sound studies scholar @jonathanjleal.bsky.social. see flyer for times and location. come by if you're around <3
earlier this eve at traffic jam o'clock, drove past that exact lower stretch of I-10 where REM shot their video for "everybody hurts," and for a moment out the window i felt like i was watching it on MTV
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rOi...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rOi...
R.E.M. - Everybody Hurts (Official HD Music Video)
YouTube video by remhq
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September 25, 2025 at 2:11 AM
earlier this eve at traffic jam o'clock, drove past that exact lower stretch of I-10 where REM shot their video for "everybody hurts," and for a moment out the window i felt like i was watching it on MTV
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rOi...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rOi...
an elegy for our friend and comrade jack elder. deceleration.news/podcast-reme...
PODCAST: Remembering Jack Elder—Activist, Peacemaker, Defender of Human Rights & La Madre Tierra – Deceleration
In a moment convulsed by questions of who we remember and how, we choose to commemorate the life of our friend and comrade Jack Elder (1943-2025). In a moment convulsed by questions of who we remember...
deceleration.news
September 23, 2025 at 9:29 PM
an elegy for our friend and comrade jack elder. deceleration.news/podcast-reme...
with a weird kind of haunted feeling, I keep thinking about how, in elementary school, when someone told you to stop doing or saying something for idiot reasons, the standard retort was: IT’S A FREE COUNTRY
like—is that even conceptually available to today’s elementary school students?
like—is that even conceptually available to today’s elementary school students?
September 19, 2025 at 10:59 PM
with a weird kind of haunted feeling, I keep thinking about how, in elementary school, when someone told you to stop doing or saying something for idiot reasons, the standard retort was: IT’S A FREE COUNTRY
like—is that even conceptually available to today’s elementary school students?
like—is that even conceptually available to today’s elementary school students?
People shocked that Fox commentator casually advocates killing homeless people. But writing about the street death of a friend last year who was unhoused and schizophrenic, this view was not far from the surface for many ordinary people in her neighborhood. deceleration.news/messages-fro...
Messages from Jess’s Last Days—A Social Autopsy – Deceleration
A close reading of the last week of Jessica Witzel’s life reveals predictable failures by public agencies, facilitated by the dehumanization that housed residents often direct at their unhoused neighb...
deceleration.news
September 14, 2025 at 10:35 PM
People shocked that Fox commentator casually advocates killing homeless people. But writing about the street death of a friend last year who was unhoused and schizophrenic, this view was not far from the surface for many ordinary people in her neighborhood. deceleration.news/messages-fro...
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“I could hear a woman’s voice screaming, ‘We’re coming back!’ ... and as I approached the wrecked tripod, a black late-model Jeep turned its headlights on and started to drive toward me."
#environment #activism #forests #biodiversity #news
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#environment #activism #forests #biodiversity #news
deceleration.news/slaying-mons...
September 12, 2025 at 7:50 PM
“I could hear a woman’s voice screaming, ‘We’re coming back!’ ... and as I approached the wrecked tripod, a black late-model Jeep turned its headlights on and started to drive toward me."
#environment #activism #forests #biodiversity #news
deceleration.news/slaying-mons...
#environment #activism #forests #biodiversity #news
deceleration.news/slaying-mons...
I have been squirreling away “No Spurs No” and “Stop Spurs Stop” for about ten years…finally vindicated in seeing it put to good use.
Our latest opinion piece kicks off a series of stories about the projects we want to see funded in a time of colliding crises. This multi-billion dollar "Project Marvel" entertainment district isn't one of them.
deceleration.news/san-antonio-...
#climate #food #cities #development #justice #hr
deceleration.news/san-antonio-...
#climate #food #cities #development #justice #hr
September 8, 2025 at 1:47 AM
I have been squirreling away “No Spurs No” and “Stop Spurs Stop” for about ten years…finally vindicated in seeing it put to good use.
normally I’m a party-averse person, but tonite I went to the best party. My friend was turning 60 so there was a bouncy house and miniature donkeys, ice cream making, cigars, and to top it off a Jesus Christ Superstar singalong
September 7, 2025 at 3:55 AM
normally I’m a party-averse person, but tonite I went to the best party. My friend was turning 60 so there was a bouncy house and miniature donkeys, ice cream making, cigars, and to top it off a Jesus Christ Superstar singalong
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All over our community and all over this land, people are fighting back and protecting each other by writing, singing, drawing, chalking sidewalks. Check out our first creative review here: deceleration.news/melting-ice-...
w/ @pacifistwarvet.bsky.social & otrxs
#poetry #art #visualart #resist
w/ @pacifistwarvet.bsky.social & otrxs
#poetry #art #visualart #resist
'Vanishing Ice, Melting ICE'—A Deceleration Quarterly Creative Review – Deceleration
Deceleration's first quarterly creative review taps into deep wells of community talent responding to the vanishing ice of warming seas and recent ICE vanishings of our family, friends, and neighbors....
deceleration.news
August 29, 2025 at 5:13 PM
All over our community and all over this land, people are fighting back and protecting each other by writing, singing, drawing, chalking sidewalks. Check out our first creative review here: deceleration.news/melting-ice-...
w/ @pacifistwarvet.bsky.social & otrxs
#poetry #art #visualart #resist
w/ @pacifistwarvet.bsky.social & otrxs
#poetry #art #visualart #resist
whenever i go somewhere intending to write something about it, i'm never sure whether i'll be able to pull it together quickly enough for it to be useful. this was one of the times i was able to do it. w @deceleration.news & @publiccitizen.bsky.social among others. deceleration.news/toxic-tour-s...
Toxic Tour Highlights Environmental Justice Struggles on San Antonio's South Side – Deceleration
A coalition of organizations led residents and media across San Antonio's 'red line of inequity,' spotlighting the overwhelming burden of polluting industries that persist south of Highway 90. Coaliti...
deceleration.news
August 28, 2025 at 12:21 AM
whenever i go somewhere intending to write something about it, i'm never sure whether i'll be able to pull it together quickly enough for it to be useful. this was one of the times i was able to do it. w @deceleration.news & @publiccitizen.bsky.social among others. deceleration.news/toxic-tour-s...
missed the reading with naomi shihab nye, but fundraiser is still open for gaza translators: givebutter.com/XUQBSA
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August 27, 2025 at 10:28 PM
missed the reading with naomi shihab nye, but fundraiser is still open for gaza translators: givebutter.com/XUQBSA
I feel it
In poetry, by @earthtokb.bsky.social: Everything’s bigger in Texas. Even the aching hearts.
Love is wrapped up in a land that wants me
more than the news lets on, so I run to it
quicker than a governing body says get out
Love is wrapped up in a land that wants me
more than the news lets on, so I run to it
quicker than a governing body says get out
Poem: Texas, No Exodus
I insist on survival every day I stay in Texas...
www.texasobserver.org
August 24, 2025 at 9:19 PM
I feel it