You gotta adapt to survive. Like a gator dug into a mud bank, I’ve slowed my psychic metabolism to a barely-there battery-saver mode. My social and sexual needs have dwindled to...
New Orleans is known for its rituals around death, from second lines featuring brass bands and dancing, to embalming traditions that prop up the dead in their best garb, enjoying...
You may have recently heard on the radio about how the Italian Renaissance began during the bubonic plague, or learned from an online think-piece that Edvard Munch painted a...
The nation is hunkering down at home with cleaning supplies and canned goods to prevent the spread of the deadly new coronavirus. But members of at least one vulnerable population...
Sex work is done in the public sphere, and its margins. I do my work in bars, strip clubs, casinos, hotels, and apartments—sometimes in the same 24 hour period. We are forever...
While much of the COVID-19 news coverage has centered around sudden challenges to hospital capacity, job security, and even toilet paper availability, in the halls of government,...
In the evolving public discourse responding to COVID-19, people who use drugs (PWUD) have been almost universally omitted. This is not a surprise—but it is a mistake. According...
Ron Smith makes his living driving around New Orleans with his hat brim cocked over one eye like Humphrey Bogart. Smith’s impeccable style and debonair manner have earned him...
The recent collapse of the Hard Rock Hotel on Rampart and Canal claimed the lives of three workers assigned to its construction—and injured many others. This titanic, entirely...
