JULY 2025 ISSUE

Welcome to your July 2025 ANTIGRAVITY—

We open with a clarion call for the future of your ANTIGRAVITY, enter heart-centered Cancer season, remove dog vomit and coffee stains, investigate our snooping impulses and Instagram fixations, confront snails (aliens?) in the garden, take it easy at Crescent Cityscapes at the Ogden, embark into the lonely world of infertility, talk to Laura Fisher about KORGs and her many collaborators, and compile public comments from an amendment to 2018’s “ban the box” City ordinance. MaCCNO discusses recent federal funding cuts that will impact the New Orleans cultural community, Jane Place looks into the living conditions at The Willows Apartments, while Alex Rawls talks to Esther Rose about her therapy album, Want. Our Close Encounters column features traffic court heroes and more (send us your own close encounters through our ANONYMOUS Google form or at [email protected], a place for missed connections. All email addresses will remain confidential. Don’t be a creep).

Jamilla Webb attended the second national Get Free: A Black Feminist Reunion conference (featuring keynote speaker Angela Davis); Drew Hawkins investigates banana plantations, ICE raids at Canal Place, and the history that connects them; Angela Calonder sat down with Dusty Santamaria to discuss the magic pull of New Orleans; while senior editors Holly Devon & Marisa Clogher turn to children’s literature to fight despair.

Don’t forget to cool off with our comics, photos, reviews, crossword puzzle, and tarot reading.