Zue Jernstedt: A Port In The Storm

November 2025

Zue Jernstedt: A Port In The Storm

The Israeli government has the starvation of Palestinians down to a science: By their estimate, according to decades-old documentation, the Palestinian people only require 2,279...

Danny Cherry Jr.

September 2025

Finding the Care in Health Care with the Trans Income Project

There are eroding forces at work in our nation. They could be called Christian Nationalism, white nationalism, the Dark Enlightenment/neo-reactionaries, amongst others. But what...

Danny Cherry Jr.

June 2025

RAISING LOUISIANA

Frequent ANTIGRAVITY contributor Danny Cherry Jr. is a fiction writer and sometimes-journalist who is a native of New Orleans East. He currently resides on the Westbank with his...

Danny Cherry Jr.

June 2025

Citizen Pain

In February 2023, a private detective was on a mission to find where Livingston Parish librarians were stashing their porn. He was hired to do so by parish Councilman Garry...

Danny Cherry Jr.

March 2025

Homewreckers

On a good day, Queer Northshore would have a dozen people at their twice-monthly peer group meetings. But the meeting following the re-election of Donald Trump had an attendance...

Danny Cherry Jr.

October 2024

Mad Science

If you went to religious schools like I did for a time, you were likely subjected to vivid imagery of the afterlife. Pastors at pulpits and teachers at whiteboards weaved worlds...

Danny Cherry Jr.

July 2024

Commanding the Room

“But it is dominion that we are after. Not just a voice. It is dominion we are after. Not just influence. It is dominion we are after. Not just equal time. It is dominion we are...

Danny Cherry Jr.

March 2024

Extreme Makeover: Louisiana Democratic Party Edition

The warning signs that the 2023 election cycle would be a shit show came early when the Louisiana Democratic Party’s Chair, Katie Bernhardt, released a commercial in January...

Danny Cherry Jr.

December 2023

2023 Times the Charm: The ANTIGRAVITY Year-End Top 5

In case you have trouble wrapping your mind around the concept of time, we’re here to confirm that, yes, another year has passed. But what even happened in 2023? Our annual Top...

Danny Cherry Jr., Drew Hawkins, Holly Devon, James Cullen, Mary Beth Campbell, Van Le

September 2023

Hostile Takeover

“Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the party… it’s going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me… these...

Danny Cherry Jr.

A crowd at a meeting with someone holding a sign reading "We support our librarians"

March 2023

Think of the Children!

“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.” —Oscar Wilde / The Picture of Dorian Gray Politicians are alchemists: They can take a...

Danny Cherry Jr.

May 2022

Mark Essex: The fires we ignore

God gave Noah the rainbow sign, ‘No more water, the fire next time!’ —James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time It was close to midnight on New Year’s Eve 1972, and a body and...

Danny Cherry Jr.