August 2020 A NEW ORLEANS WITHOUT POLICE On June 16, the Urban League of Louisiana hosted a two-hour, three-panel webinar with the title “Police Reform? Let’s Talk About It.” The cast of Black... Jules Bentley
May 2020 THE RENOPENING 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... Jules Bentley
April 2020 KICK IN THE DOORS All of society—not civilization, just society—must be shut down for the Boomer Flu. We must all be reasonable and responsible and confined to our homes indefinitely. You... Jules Bentley
November 2019 BUILT TO KILL 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... Jules Bentley
September 2019 Reviews ... Allie Mariano, Bill Heintz, Emily Elhaj, Jenn Attaway, Jesse Baum, Jules Bentley, Kevin Comarda, Marisa Clogher, Mary Beth Campbell, Steven Melendez, William Archambeault
July 2019 BLANC LIKE ME: CAJUNS VS. WHITENESS The return to Eden is a popular obsession within the far right. Capitalism repackages detritus to invoke nostalgia in consumers longing to escape failed adulthoods; and in a... Jules Bentley
November 2018 ARMING THE LEFT with the NEW ORLEANS CHAPTER of the JOHN BROWN GUN CLUB The mainstream (or “liberal”) U.S. left generally favors more restrictions to civilian gun ownership, but some parts of the more grassroots left—including those who live or... Jules Bentley
September 2018 REVIVING INDIGENOUS HISTORIES with BULBANCHA IS STILL A PLACE Bulbancha is Still A Place: Indigenous Culture from New Orleans is a new collaborative Native zine under the umbrella of the POC Zine Project. Issue #1, The Tricentennial Issue,... Jules Bentley
July 2018 REVOLUTION IN PRINT: MARKING THE HISTORY OF LOUISIANA’S FIRST BLACK-OWNED NEWSPAPERS The French Quarter was built by Black hands—yet in this historic district, encrusted with memorials and markers, there was (until June) not a single historical marker honoring... Jules Bentley
December 2017 SHILOH (FEB 2, 1986- NOV 19, 2017) Shiloh lived in New Orleans for many years, and was a pillar of the Iron Rail anarchist bookstore and library back when that existed. Shiloh was lots of things and did lots of... Jules Bentley
February 2017 GET BEHIND THE MASK: WHY WE MUST SUPPORT THE #J20NOLA ARRESTEES If you’re hep enough to be reading ANTIGRAVITY you’ve likely seen the footage of white nationalist Richard Spencer getting decked during Trump’s inauguration. Step close,... Jules Bentley
December 2016 ON SNITCHING AND THE DAYS AHEAD I thought hard about the most important survival and resistance strategy to emphasize in the wake of the recent change in national figurehead. I asked people smarter than me who... Jules Bentley
