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Our APRIL issue is in print and online as a downloadable pdf—soon a full web version (with bonus content) will be up too. Where can you get your glove’d hands on a copy? Check http://antigravitymagazine.com/covid-19 for an updated list on distro spots and info on mail order/delivery.
After a month that felt like a bad trip, it looks like we bit the other side of Alice’s mushroom…our magazine is now a svelte letter-sized affair, still newsprint, still free, and—again—still monthly, despite everything.
Our front cover art is by Max Seckel, our new medallion is by @rekanize, and our back cover illustration is by Rachel Speck. Some print copies will include a poster insert: “GRIEF,” an 11″x17″ two color risograph print designed by @untestedallies and printed by Max Seckel.
So: what’s inside? Editor In Chief @dantigravity officiates our pesach seder. Reality Bites more than ever, and food columnist Yvette Regrets has nothing but love for our local industry friends. Your astrological forecast is, well, messy but @iamastrology has tips.
This month’s Raising Louisiana, our parenting column, offers guidance from Ked Dixon, social worker and family therapist, on quarantining with children. Tenants, we don’t know why the rent was just due either, but we do have useful information (and a flowchart) from @SLLSHelps.
Don’t be fooled by wack pseudoscientific rona remedies floating around the web (did you see the one that was… just sangria?). However, taking time to nourish yourself is very real. We’ve got a guide on boosting your wellness by Jen Stovall of Maypop Herb Shop. #gimmethatvitaminD
That’s not the only antidote for misinfo contained in this iteration of our small fertile monthly. From @swamp_haus, MPH, a comprehensive COVID-19 guide with a FAQ compendium and visual aids, including the utterly indispensable “are you sick?” decision tree, inked by @altkallie.
Moving from our sick bodies to our ailing society, @NewOrleansDSA offers their analysis of our system (which remember, isn’t broken but rather functioning exactly as designed) and a list of demands to local governance.
Groups like @OPPRC, @FIPVOTENOLA, @JacLouisiana, @dbinola, and @OrleansDefender are fiercely advocating for decarceration as a necessary and urgent pandemic response— @smelendez has the scoop on that fight. #healthnothandcuffs
While @nolaready holds a PPE drive for first responders, in an interview with @hwanola, @fictionalbeck reports that the other people on the frontlines—hospitality workers—need protection too (and for you to tip better). https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/tell-the-morial-convention-center-ceo-its-time-to-put-hospitality-workers-first
Our beloved sex work column the Tricking Hour returns from retirement, as our beloved Saint Agatha fights for her health in an immediate/personal/collective sense, and lets you know how you can support sex workers in this time of extreme income loss ( http://gofundme.com/f/covid19-emergency-fund-for-new-orleans-swers).
It was already difficult to access abortion care in Louisiana, can you imagine trying to get an abortion right now? Elizabeth Gelvin and Danielle Unger from @NolaAbortionFnd report on new legislative attempts to make it even! harder!!
People who use drugs are also facing a slew of new barriers to health. Our local harm reductionists Trystereo shares tips on safer drug use as relates to the virus and discusses how their collective is responding to the crisis. https://trystereo.org/
Novel coronavirus isn’t the first plague our city has faced (and we’re not talking about Krewe of Chad). We’ve got a fascinating and distressing look back on epidemics past, courtesy resident historian @timesnewrobin and accompanied by gorgeous images from @visit_thnoc.
If you’ve made it this far in the thread, you could probably use a little escapism. We’ve got you covered, with contributor picks on podcasts, music, television, literature, games, and youtube rabbit holes to give you a reprieve from the 24 hour news/panic cycle.
Our polemicist @julesbentley isn’t a real doctor, but he doesn’t need a med degree to examine the twin scourges of isolation and martial law. He hasn’t found a vaccine yet, but he’s got a lead on a cure.
Spellcaster and tarot reader @emmmbrrr received a lesson on interdependence and evolution from the deck this month, paired with @karlinche_’s illustrations.
Naturally, most of the photographers and visual artists who we feature prefer instagram to this platform (and you should follow all of them).
We want to give artists we haven’t already tagged or mentioned in this thread a shoutout: @skanarchist69, @dirtfarm, Lizzie Parmenter, Happy Burbeck, @AccidentalCajun, Katie Sikora, Keith Knight, our photo editor @abattphoto, our comics editor @jigsawjct, and Thom Karamus.
To order a copy via mail or local delivery, http://venmo.com/antigravitymag or http://paypal.me/antigravitymag . Requested donation $10, NOTAFLOF. Please make sure we have your correct address. Copies delivered/mailed will include the special poster insert.
These issues are being packaged by 1 or 2 people, who are masked and gloved for the entirety of the transaction, from packaging to delivery (whether that’s the post office or your porch). We take our health and yours seriously. We love you.
