ah shit, sorry for boosting a slop video. i was duped for a moment

"what fantastical masculinities could i muster with breasts?" gender is a scam is a poem by Ari Cottingham

existotherwise.com/villain/ art by #MikeDressel in #ExistOtherwise #LitJournal #CaudeCahun used masks often in her art and writing

lurvable candidates self-defeating nihilism appeasing cis people #haiQu #senryu

"You should be nominated for Cannes or the Oscars this year; no one has ever died as realistically as you did. The way you screamed, the way you played your part, the way you died and were torn apart..." prose poetry by Zar Mohseni

"The Human Animal hates watching other human animals fight.. A bad human animal ran a red light at an intersection... This happened because she loves you all so much..." poetry by Susan L. Lin existotherwise.com/not-was-this/

"Revolutionary love is, as Christ insisted, a threat to the established order. To rebuild love in the future, it might be necessary to save love now..." www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/apo...

'Love was an alchemical reagent that transformed pessimism into revolutionary action, Georges Bataille concluded in a 1938 essay, “L’Apprenti sorcier”: you can’t start a revolution without it....' www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/apo...

"Césaire’s claim... that Hitlerism was colonialism boomeranged home is much celebrated, but it did not come out of nowhere. It crowned a twenty-five-year effort by Surrealists to theorize the psychodynamics of fascist imperialism..." www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/apo...

Hey! I am able to access your website for the first time in months!! What a happy day. :)

yes, we have artwork in #ExistOtherwise #LitJournal this painting is by #SeaniceLenay existotherwise.com/gluttony/

poetry by @mosquitochaser.bsky.social "Lacking friends, I didn’t care, I solaced in the knowing that insects would be everywhere, all while I was growing. My mother then, she called me queer (the strange one, not the dyke)..." existotherwise.com/autobiograph...

it's sad how many #LitJournals have a #SubmissionFee makes me think of #LotteryTickets

bookmarked for reading later

this keeps happening: i see the name "claude" in a post and immediately think of #ClaudeCahun only to find out they're talking about an AI bot #BooHiss

Chocolate Olive Lime Orange Rose vertical #OneLine #poem #prompt #color @epistemiclit.bsky.social #acrostic #poetry #PoetryPrompt #PoetrySky #NationalPoetryMonth

i never really through of EO as a flash publisher, but i guess we are. many people consider #flash to be under 1,000, and we now have a 500 word limit speaking of flash, here's a brilliant short work by Azalea Withrow existotherwise.com/my-girlfrien...

Issue 18 of #ExistOtherwise #LitJournal officially publishes tomorrow, but here is the link for our social #WritingCommunity

just discovered what looks like an excellent journal of #trans and #GenderExpansive nonprofit #poetry press i was looking for online journals, not print, but this looks fantastic and i've ordered three issues newwordspress.com

i am looking for #LitJournal s that publish on #Ghost, but also any other non-substack platform such as #beehiv or #ButtonDown

here's an essay i've been working on. it needs polishing, but i'm posting it less as #writing and more as one #MaleSurvivor speaking to another for anyone interested in submitting to #ExistOtherwise, this is also an example of one kind of writing i like to publish menhealing.blog/will-little-...

not gonna delete this account immediately, but its days are numbered

moving back to #Mastodon

almost done responding to submissions for issue 18. still waiting to hear from 3 who have not yet accepted their acceptance. the challenge this presents is that we're holding a few other works that we may or may not have room for reading submissions is a delight. responding to them is a lot of work

responded to 100 submissions yesterday #ouch working through the final 90 or so today and tomorrow #MyEyesHurt hardest part? far too many wonderful works that we have to turn down just because of space

Blue Wings digital collage by me #gayart #gayartist #gaycollage #queerart #collage

bsky.social/about/blog/0... enshittification is underway. i keep threatening to move to mastodon, and it continues to seem like a good idea

Dear friends - I'm a bit nervous sharing this piece. It's about another writer and his behavior towards me. I hesitated writing about it for a few years, but decided to put it out both as a reminder to myself and to others who share their work with the world. ❤ brevity.wordpress.com/2026/03/19/w...

#art by Carolina Guttfreund existotherwise.com/who-do-you-w...

"As if everyone was suddenly against us. As if they always were. Tomorrow, my stuff goes to the curb and I must grab a car before it passes. Forcibly separated, evicted by the government, I will tell my wife goodbye and move into my state-sanctioned studio apartment." #poetry by Mel Connelly

our muse #ClaudeCahun would not use #SubStack to write or to read greyartmuseum.nyu.edu/2015/12/clau...

#SubStack is a nazi bar. Do you know what it means if you hang out at a nazi bar?

PHEW!!! I believe I have acknowledged all of the submissions for Issue 18 of #ExistOtherwise #LitJournal Note, this does not mean I have made a final decision on your work. Just that I have sent a message telling you it was received. Acceptance/Declination notices will be sent before April 1.

"this living wall was the back panel of a bus stop shelter. i walked by it several times a week and it was always changing. this detail is only a small part of the shelter, every surface of which was used by local artists, writers, and gangsters, broadcasting their urgent messages to the world."

#photography by Cleomé Morra

#GhostElephants movie is #ApocalypseNow for... elephants

Fuck the USA fuck Israel

i wish we could follow hashtags here...

we love this and we love #MarleneMountain so glad to see her here, thank you

"I always wanted to die young. But I’m still here. The fire is reduced to a smolder, but the ashes don’t blow away. We’re all still here, those of us who still are..." #prose by Andrew London in #ExistOtherwise #LitJournal existotherwise.com/the-politics...

#SameSameOnlyDifferent white cover published in the US in 2007, red cover published the UK in 2024, and in the US in 2025 have read white once through and still peruse it red is a new translation! by the same translator! #SusanDeMuth both are on my #DesertIslandBookList twice the fun

"The sound of a lockdown is much like a firetruck. A firetruck with a focused, robotic voice crunching through the loudspeaker after each deafening siren..." prose by EA Kane in #ExistOtherwise #LitJournal existotherwise.com/seventh-peri...

Crows Antonin Kratochvil

Someone bought the domain Nazis.us and pointed it to the DHS website. #GoodTrouble

They have tried everything they can think of to distract us and prevent the truth from coming out — posting racist memes and even shutting down the House. But we will not stop until all involved are held accountable and the survivors get justice.

"each stone is small, just 10 by 10 cm, but it carries the full weight of life, of a family broken, a future stolen, and a community shattered..." #poetry by #AnneWhitehouse existotherwise.com/stumble-stone/

"That master of ceremonies, parsimonious, had only provided one pair of them - o communism!... speed was essential. Rub two flints together, you'll see sparks fly! Dry wood itself (if you know how to set about it) is inflammable." #ClaudeCahun 2/2

"We say ‘Fire from the Sky’ to simplify things, like telling children they were born in a cabbage. In reality, Sodom blazed up by itself at the amorous contact of its inhabitants with the Angels of the Lord God." #ClaudeCahun 1/2