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yes, we have artwork in #ExistOtherwise #LitJournal

this painting is by #SeaniceLenay

https://existotherwise.com/gluttony/

poetry by Cassie Urquhart in #ExistOtherwise #LitJournal for the #WritingCommunity

"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)..."

https://existotherwise.com/autobiography-of-a-queer-bug-child/

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

https://existotherwise.com/tag/issue-18/

here's a little essay i've been working on. it needs some polishing, but i'm posting it less as #writing and more as one #MaleSurvivor speaking to another

for anyone who's interested in submitting to #ExistOtherwise, this is also an example of one kind of writing i like to publish

https://menhealing.blog/will-little-eric-please-raise-his-hand/

#ExistOtherwise #LitJournal was inspired by #ClaudeCahun and #MarcelMoore. When we began publishing, we did not realize that the US was on the verge of becoming a fascist country.

"Remembering the queer, anti-Nazi art of Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore.

https://vashtimedia.com/cahun-moore-antifascist-queer-surrealist-art/

#ExistOtherwise #LitJournal was inspired by #ClaudeCahun and #MarcelMoore. When we began publishing, we did not realize that the US was on the verge of becoming a fascist country.

"Remembering the queer, anti-Nazi art of Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore.

https://vashtimedia.com/cahun-moore-antifascist-queer-surrealist-art/

#ExistOtherwise #LitJournal was inspired by #ClaudeCahun and #MarcelMoore. When we began publishing, we did not realize that the US was on the verge of becoming a fascist country.

"Remembering the queer, anti-Nazi art of Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore.

https://vashtimedia.com/cahun-moore-antifascist-queer-surrealist-art/

#ExistOtherwise #LitJournal was inspired by #ClaudeCahun and #MarcelMoore. When we began publishing, we did not realize that the US was on the verge of becoming a fascist country.

"Remembering the queer, anti-Nazi art of Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore.

https://vashtimedia.com/cahun-moore-antifascist-queer-surrealist-art/

#ExistOtherwise #LitJournal was inspired by #ClaudeCahun and #MarcelMoore. When we began publishing, we did not realize that the US was on the verge of becoming a fascist country.

"Remembering the queer, anti-Nazi art of Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore.

https://vashtimedia.com/cahun-moore-antifascist-queer-surrealist-art/

"Stay in the Garden, Get Civilized, Procreate, Muck It Up" is the odd title for this photograph by Cleomé Morra in #ExistOtherwise #LitJournal

if i'm not mistaken the title is a #DianeArbus quote

https://www.existotherwise.com/stay-in-the-garden-get-civilized-procreate-muck-it-up/

"Stay in the Garden, Get Civilized, Procreate, Muck It Up" is the odd title for this photograph by Cleomé Morra in #ExistOtherwise #LitJournal

if i'm not mistaken the title is a #DianeArbus quote

https://www.existotherwise.com/stay-in-the-garden-get-civilized-procreate-muck-it-up/

this #photography #SelfPortrait speaks to me of #sanctuary

by Victoria Ojo in #ExistOtherwise #LitJournal
https://www.existotherwise.com/healing-streams/

#PlotTwists are necessary because we live inside stories that we don't want to end but there's an innate desire for all stories to have an ending.

A #PlotTwist is a literary record skipping. Each go around is more enlightening than the previous until we go through so many revelations (revolutions) we no longer know if we're the reader, the author, or some distant alien observer.

My story has only two plot twists but they occur, what I mean to say is, recur so often, and lead off into so many different directions, that just when we think we're near to understanding, we are overcome with a frantic and furious case of the hiccups, which has a dumbfounding effect, what I mean to say is we (you and I) can't get there from here.

@existotherwise #ExistOtherwise

#PlotTwists are necessary because we live inside stories that we don't want to end but there's an innate desire for all stories to have an ending.

A #PlotTwist is a literary record skipping. Each go around is more enlightening than the previous until we go through so many revelations (revolutions) we no longer know if we're the reader, the author, or some distant alien observer.

My story has only two plot twists but they occur, what I mean to say is, recur so often, and lead off into so many different directions, that just when we think we're near to understanding, we are overcome with a frantic and furious case of the hiccups, which has a dumbfounding effect, what I mean to say is we (you and I) can't get there from here.

@existotherwise #ExistOtherwise

#PlotTwists are necessary because we live inside stories that we don't want to end but there's an innate desire for all stories to have an ending.

A #PlotTwist is a literary record skipping. Each go around is more enlightening than the previous until we go through so many revelations (revolutions) we no longer know if we're the reader, the author, or some distant alien observer.

My story has only two plot twists but they occur, what I mean to say is, recur so often, and lead off into so many different directions, that just when we think we're near to understanding, we are overcome with a frantic and furious case of the hiccups, which has a dumbfounding effect, what I mean to say is we (you and I) can't get there from here.

@existotherwise #ExistOtherwise

As kids / my cousins and I would watch wrestling
/ at times vaguely / at others overtly racist /
and always toxic with measurements of “testicular / fortitude”…

The “Master of the Death Match,” Nick Gage

#Poetry by by Christian Hanz Lozada in Issue 13 of #ExistOtherwise #LitJournal

https://www.existotherwise.com/the-master-of-the-death-match-nick-gage/

i am sometimes tongue-tied when looking for words to describe the qualities of a piece that caused us to accept it… we look for all of these qualities, and more: innovation, experimentation, the personal, self-exploration, a challenge, daring, bold, revolutionary, inspiring, wit, literary references, co-optation, i could go on and on…

Consecrated by Use by Adrienne Pine is…

gorgeously simple and superlative #prose

https://www.existotherwise.com/consecrated-by-use/

#ExistOtherwise #LitJournal

"They asked me to write about home
When there is nothing to write home about
They want me to feed their minds with gory JPEGs
But I don’t have the stomach for that..."

#poetry by Nigerian poet Abdulrahman M. Abu-Yaman in #ExistOtherwise #LitJournal

our muses are #ClaudeCahun and #MarcelMoore

https://www.existotherwise.com/home-writing/

"They asked me to write about home
When there is nothing to write home about
They want me to feed their minds with gory JPEGs
But I don’t have the stomach for that..."

#poetry by Nigerian poet Abdulrahman M. Abu-Yaman in #ExistOtherwise #LitJournal

our muses are #ClaudeCahun and #MarcelMoore

https://www.existotherwise.com/home-writing/

"They asked me to write about home
When there is nothing to write home about
They want me to feed their minds with gory JPEGs
But I don’t have the stomach for that..."

#poetry by Nigerian poet Abdulrahman M. Abu-Yaman in #ExistOtherwise #LitJournal

our muses are #ClaudeCahun and #MarcelMoore

https://www.existotherwise.com/home-writing/

"They asked me to write about home
When there is nothing to write home about
They want me to feed their minds with gory JPEGs
But I don’t have the stomach for that..."

#poetry by Nigerian poet Abdulrahman M. Abu-Yaman in #ExistOtherwise #LitJournal

our muses are #ClaudeCahun and #MarcelMoore

https://www.existotherwise.com/home-writing/

a poem about an owl in #ExistOtherwise #LitJournal seems odd… or does it?
https://www.existotherwise.com/flaco/

"The big dog and the laundry basket sleigh he carried me in... ...the grandma quilts, not named as such because they were made by grandma but because they smell like the platonic ideal of a grandma..."

What I Was Raised By by a.k. barak

#ProsePoetry #ExistOtherwise

https://www.existotherwise.com/what-i-was-raised-by/

#Submission to Issue 14 of #ExistOtherwise #LitJournal are open again and with a new theme:

We Will Not Go Back!

We seek writing and art of all kinds, especially work that is #queer, #trans, radical, experimental, personal, or otherwise challenging to the status quo.

#poetry, #essay, #script, #fiction, #prose, #cnf, #photography, #collage, #montage, #surrealism, #weird, #wtf

https://existotherwise.cc/theme-prompt/

i am having to do some heavy thinking. the election made me want to tweak the focus of #ExistOtherwise #LitJournal

moving forward, i want to publish more #queer and #trans voices, maybe even only those voices. i also want to emphasize themes of #resistance

but i have a problem. um, in fact, i am the problem. i'm a cis-het white guy

otoh, i feel free to promote the voices of anyone i want to in my little journal

otoh, by doing so i become a gatekeeper

comments welcome

#ClaudeCahun is #muse

i am having to do some heavy thinking. the election made me want to tweak the focus of #ExistOtherwise #LitJournal

moving forward, i want to publish more #queer and #trans voices, maybe even only those voices. i also want to emphasize themes of #resistance

but i have a problem. um, in fact, i am the problem. i'm a cis-het white guy

otoh, i feel free to promote the voices of anyone i want to in my little journal

otoh, by doing so i become a gatekeeper

comments welcome

#ClaudeCahun is #muse

i am having to do some heavy thinking. the election made me want to tweak the focus of #ExistOtherwise #LitJournal

moving forward, i want to publish more #queer and #trans voices, maybe even only those voices. i also want to emphasize themes of #resistance

but i have a problem. um, in fact, i am the problem. i'm a cis-het white guy

otoh, i feel free to promote the voices of anyone i want to in my little journal

otoh, by doing so i become a gatekeeper

comments welcome

#ClaudeCahun is #muse

i am having to do some heavy thinking. the election made me want to tweak the focus of #ExistOtherwise #LitJournal

moving forward, i want to publish more #queer and #trans voices, maybe even only those voices. i also want to emphasize themes of #resistance

but i have a problem. um, in fact, i am the problem. i'm a cis-het white guy

otoh, i feel free to promote the voices of anyone i want to in my little journal

otoh, by doing so i become a gatekeeper

comments welcome

#ClaudeCahun is #muse

check out this weird #FamilyPhoto by Cleomé Morra in #ExistOtherwise #LitJournal, that also has a weird title

https://existotherwise.cc/eb-bb-d-cm7-bb-d/

#Sumissions are open for Issue 12 of #ExistOtherwise #LitJournal whose theme is this #ClaudeCahun quote:

"In everyday life, we waste words and gestures because we have time to lose and no one is looking, but the actor, a thousand eyes follow his movements and he has only an hour or two to transmit the drama that he performs, it is therefore indispensible that he act and speak with the greatest economy, on stage no waste, nothing must be lost."

and this image:

“The rule interests me only for its leftovers with which I make my swill.” — #ClaudeCahun

Today is the last day to #submit to Issue 11 of #ExistOtherwise #LitJournal, which will be published in May.

Seeking all kinds of writing and visual art.

https://existotherwise.cc/submission-guidelines/

Issue #10 of #ExistOtherwise #LitJournal is live with writing and art. Here's one of the arts:

https://existotherwise.cc/the-light-at-the-end/

The ninth issue of #ExistOtherwise #LitJournal is available now with #poetry, #fiction, #essays, #art and more.

“I love you. That should be enough for the whole solar system.“

— #Claude#Cahun

https://existotherwise.cc/issue-9-jan-24/

"Waiting for Desi" is a photography by Cleomé Morra in #ExistOtherwise #LitJournal

Alternate reality version of a feminist #WaitingForGodot

https://existotherwise.cc/waiting-for-desi/

“Follow my example: Stay at home and eat wool.“ — #ClaudeCahun

Issue 8 of #ExistOtherwise #LitJournal is out today with another eclectic mix of #poetry, #prose, #fiction, #photography, and more.

https://existotherwise.cc/issue-8-nov-23/