Exist Otherwise Literary & Art Journal

Seventh Period prose by EA Kane

"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

Home | Homeland Security U.S. Department of Homeland Security: With honor and integrity, we will safeguard the American people, our homeland, and our values.

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.

Stumble Stone poetry by Anne Whitehouse

"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

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"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

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Ambivalence

John Stezaker

How to Be a Room prose by Fendy S. Tulodo

"When I was little, I thought my ribs could swing wide, like a gate opening slow. That if I tried hard enough, I could let someone live inside..."

prose by Fendy S. Tulodo in #ExistOtherwise #LitJournal

existotherwise.com/how-to-be-a-...

on surviving poetry by mk zariel

"some days i can't figure out if i'm upset that i'm trans
or just mystified that some people aren't..."

#trans #poetry by @mkzariel.bsky.social

existotherwise.com/on-surviving/

this account will be deleted on January 23 as a show of support for Minneapolis's General Strike

"bsky for everyone"

but not for we

time to leave the newest #NaziBar

awesome. thx for sharing

what is this? (it is liked)

Handmaidens (or, “What’s the Point of Loving Me in Fascist America?”) poetry by Mel Connelly

Mel Connelly (she/her) is a lesbian feminist poet, archivist, and art and book historian whose writing has appeared in Screen Door Review, Poetry South, Sinister Wisdom, and more.

“What’s the Point of Loving Me in Fascist America?”

existotherwise.com/handmaidens-...

A Month of Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore I can’t decide if I’m unlucky for not having heard of this before, or lucky that I found out before it started. I would love to be able to attend in person, but I can’t afford the expense on such shor...

THIS IS A BIG DEAL!

A whole month of #ClaudeCahun and #MarcelMoore events...

existotherwise.com/a-month-of-c...

angry that #ICE Gestapo is not only on Bluesky, but they've been verified. worse is if we block them, our profile becomes known to them as having done so

this is no longer a safe space. not deleting today, but probably will eventually

please join us on the fediverse: @existo@existotherwise.com

so sorry and thank you for the alert. i wonder if the site has been blacklisted somewhere. one more thing to look into

well fuck. with Nazi ICE getting a blue check here, we are now in a #NaziBar

back to mastodon we shall go

there goes thhe neighborhood

#FuckIce

if you don't mind, do these two work for you? because they're on the same server:

haiqu.foo

menhealing.blog

i only have a Mac, but it loads fine in Chrome, Vivaldi, Firefox, Mullvad, and Safari

it also checks out as OK from dnschecker.com and downforeveryoneorjustme.com (and the company that hosts it)

but in the last 48 hours, i've had two other people report the same problem. hard to troubleshoot...

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this is so weird... where are you (generally)?

hi, sorry i missed this. it’s a mystery. had a few people saying it was down but according to my host and a monitoring service it should be available. i’ll keep testing

hmmm, seems fine from my end. it was working last night, and just now. i suppose there coulda been a temporary outage 4 hours ago...

i use this site to check if a problem is on my end:

downforeveryoneorjustme.com/existotherwi...

really loved the poem "Techno-Puritanism" by Beth Anne MacDonald in @existotherwise.bsky.social 🔥https://existotherwise.com/techno-puritanism/

Claude Cahun Month Claude Cahun Month. February 1 – 28 2026 at Torriano Meeting House London NW5 Exhibition of photomontage and prints by Claude Cahun & Marcel Moore and a programme of events celebrating an…

i'm posting in a hurry 'cause i gotta be somewhere, but here's a link:

#ClaudeCahun #ClaudeCahunMonth is February 2026!

claudecahun.net/claude-cahun...

they want us afraid and in a state of distress. holding onto our joy is resistance. sharing that joy is also resistance

#resist and #FuckFash

Hi Trish, sorry for taking so long to get back to you. Yes, the website was experiencing some tech issues, but it should be fine now. Where's the list? I'd love to promote it.

Exist Otherwise Literary & Art Journal A Journal of Cancelled Confessions, Inspired by Claude Cahun & Marcel Moore

Exist Otherwise Literary & Art Journal issue 17 is online now, with a theme of "This is What Resistance Looks Like."

Our muses, #ClaudeCahun and #MarcelMoor were gender non-conforming antifascist activists and artists in the early 20th century. Their spirits live on.

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