The lovely folks at Deceleration, a Texas-based independent news outlet, filmed my San Antonio event with the brilliant Alex Birnel, Ananda Tomas and Joleen Garcia. Alex also did a further interview with me for Deceleration’s site, and editor Greg Harman wrote this lovely editor’s note:
Entering 2025 with MAGA ascendant means a physical and psychic scramble as we prepare to protect those around us who are immediately vulnerable to long promised campaigns of state violence. It is increasingly clear that Trump 2.0 will also require surviving and fighting an ‘imperial’ presidency committed to redrawing international borders, historically a recipe for large-scale conflict. The emotional toll of this onslaught of threats, followed by the groveling of too many who could have provided a degree of buffer for the less resourced, has put “brace for impact” into regular journalistic usage. MAGA at home and abroad means the fracturing and crushing of undocumented families, of trans and queer people, a constant labeling and weeding out of a fabricated “enemy within” to justify the erosion of rights, and a raffling off to the highest bidder (entry price $1B) of the marvelous network of beings often sterilized as the “environment” as the Earth continues to boil and spark from fossil-fueled abuse. Deceleration offers this conversation, and many more to come, in the hopes that those working for justice will make heartfelt and thoughtful space for the needs of the broad-based inter-generational movement materializing now. It is a movement full of pain and humor. Of joy and terror. Of grief and all stages of grieving. Prepare room.
You can read the whole thing at Deceleration, and watch the video above.