Exist Otherwise Literary & Art Journal

Pretty Little Shades of Gray poetry by Leyelle M.G.

"I refused to believe that a pair of chromosomes could break me / I need a new word for this double kind of beauty / Black radiance / Dual, sensual, instrumental..."

#poetry by Leyelle M.G.

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a molitov mocktail
koala chlamydia ward
sushi terrorist

#haiQu

What You Refuse to Remember by MT Vallarta — Small Harbor Publishing Winner of the 2021 Laureate Prize

Read MT Vallarta’s WHAT YOU REFUSE TO REMEMBER!

In this @smallharborpub.bsky.social collection, “queerness and florals are a carefully constructed life-raft, strong enough to hold and to ‘love in vice grips until we writhe.’” —Angela Peñaredondo #FAHM
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overstimulation of an empire’s fall poetry by kayla nichols

"each day a new act of war
headlines my breaking news
notifications so i marry do not disturb
because i feel myself becoming numb..."

poetry by kayla nichols

www.existotherwise.com/overstimulat...

Ancient female figurine known as "Woman of Willendorf" has been modified so it appears she also has a penis under her large breasts. Behind her are pink, blue, and white stripes.

new vinyl sticker available

#WomanOfWillendorf #TransFigure

write a story in #SixWords

sensei sipping red wine

that’s only four words

there will be a sequel

manual of becoming poetry by S. Abdulwasi’h Olaitan

"a memory held against the sky of concealment / the horizontal line in the left corner / a garden / big enough to bivouac a little girl / & her oversized griefs / the horizontal line of the right corner...."

#poetry by S. Abdulwasi’h Olaitan

www.existotherwise.com/manual-of-be...

Banner of yellow, lavender, white, and black horizontal stripes with various alternative gender symbols, and the works "Fuck the C.I.S.tem"

#FuckTheCIStem sticker is a hard one to write alt text for

I think there are multiple American traditions...but one of them is fascist, and Trump is very recognizably in that tradition.

Someone Else’s Daughter Poetry by Caitlin Cacciatore

"I got lost in a single moment. he had an ace
of hearts and played it. I went home and heard
the world’s smallest violin..."

#poetry by Caitlin Cacciatore

www.existotherwise.com/someone-else...

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dove to cunt poetry by Golda Grais

"chick in a membrane
waiting to crack
through to the wider world..."

#poetry by Golda Grais

www.existotherwise.com/dove-to-cunt/

last night, i sat down to read a book i have been reading. i read one sentence, and i couldn't read any more because i spent thirty minutes thinking about it

Episode 9: Marcel Moore & Claude Cahun: Surrealist Antifa Revolutionaries!

The latest episode of #TheseOldQueers Megan @darkhabitsmag.bsky.social talks about #queer #dyke surrealist revolutionaries: #ClaudeCahun and #MarcelMoore -
find it via the link, or wherever you get your podcasts

Portraits in Pride, celebrating queer people! Today: Claude Cahun.

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#Pride #portrait #claudecahun #queer

Mickey is wearing a white long sleeved top and scarf tied around their neck. They are sitting in a chair in front of a shabbily hung black backdrop fabric. They have hearts painted sideways on their cheeks, dramatic eyeliner, pout lipstick, and two little curls of hair coming down on their forehead. Image is in black and white.

Decided to do a new “As my Idols” mini set tonight.

As Claude Cahun

Sono Una Fotografia
On body, androgyny, resistance, and identity

#photography #eastcoastkin #classicmono #ArtofSelfPortraiture #homage #claudecahun

La triple entente.
#ClaudeCahun

Episode 9: Marcel Moore & Claude Cahun: Surrealist Antifa Revolutionaries! These Old Queers · Episode

Check out the latest episode of my other podcast @theseoldqueers.bsky.social about Nazi subvertin' badass queer couple: #ClaudeCahun and #MarcelMoore !

Visionary Milwaukee artist Eugene Von Bruenchenhein was a poet and painter. Von Bruenchenhein painted on canvases and on the wall and ceilings of his home. He repeatedly photographed his wife Marie, posed as wife, ingénue, calendar girl and more.

from The Marie photographs
#Photography

Dutch photographer Nona Limmen
#Photography

Contemporary experimental German photographer Floris Neusüss.

Traumbilder (c), München, 1958
#Photography

American photographer Clarence John Laughlin

Water Witch, 1939
#Photography #Surrealism

Patti

Lynn Goldsmith

Second Coming No. 266 — October 12, 2025 A poem-a-day protest against the threat posed to our democracy by Donald Trump and his fascist regime

So this just happened! Enjoy today's poem (and every day) from Second Coming (remember W.B. Yeats, political genie-poet of the 1920s) Thanks to editor Michael Broder for his swift, falcon's eye! I am honored to be published by Second Coming.
secondcoming.substack.com/p/second-com...

Foreigner Before a Woman* prose by Palipuff

"I tamed my dysphoria as I realized I was a ‘foreigner’ in my own country before I was a woman. And I’m not ashamed to admit I prefer it this way..."

#prose by Palipuff

www.existotherwise.com/foreigner-be...

Non-Binary poetry by Elaine Freyja

Elaine Freyja writes about "being in a flesh suit."

#NonBinary #poetry #ExistOtherwise

www.existotherwise.com/non-binary/

Issue 16 - Exist Otherwise A Journal of Cancelled Confessions, Inspired by Claude Cahun & Marcel Moore

Issue #16 of Exist Otherwise Literary & Art Journal is live.

The theme for this one is "Neuter is the Only Gender That Suits Me."

www.existotherwise.com/tag/issue-16/

#LitJournal #poetry #writing #ExistOtherwise

Jungle Snow Prose by Dan Nicholas

Dan Nicholas sees #snow in a most unusual environment...

www.existotherwise.com/jungle-snow/

For the record, Exist Otherwise Literary Journal does not use AI or LLM software in any capacity. Nor, to the best of our knowledge, will we ever publish writing or art that is not genuinely written entirely by human beings.

#Writing is #Living