“New Orleans is a weather city. Our relationship to the atmosphere is daily, immediate, visceral.” 

Home is identity and inheritance, memory and continuity, and a place where intellectual knowledge and emotional allegiance often collide without resolution. In a city like New Orleans, home perhaps takes on a denser meaning because of the interwoven social structures that provide the protections allowing us to remain there at the frontlines of buckling systems that once buffered our risks. As our fragile infrastructure is put to new tests, we’re in the middle of a rapid unraveling as natural, political, financial, and social pressures mount. The story of New Orleans is not easily categorized under the popular framing of climate migration. It’s about who gets to choose how they exist in the city, compared to those who must endure. Home, then, becomes not just a matter of place and geography but of power: who holds it, who is denied it, and who is left to survive in its absence.