Autobiography of a Queer Bug Child poetry by Cassie Urquhart

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

My Girlfriend’s Ex-Girlfriend Has a Gun poetry by Azalea Withrow

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 - Exist Otherwise "I no longer exist? Perfect, now nothing can come between us!" —Claude Cahun

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

Will Little Eric Please Raise His Hand The idea that all of us adults have an inner child is silly. Which is the point.

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

Exist Otherwise is Back (@existotherwise@writing.exchange) 586 Posts, 54 Following, 78 Followers · This old account is being revived. Bluesky is being enshittified too fast.

moving back to #Mastodon

Bluesky's new AI tool Attie is already the most blocked account other than J. D. Vance | TechCrunch More than 125,000 Bluesky users have blocked Attie in just a few days, sending a strong message from the user base.

techcrunch.com/2026/03/30/b...

Two images. On the right, a head shot of a person whose face is almost entirely hidden because their head is wrapped in blue painters tape. One eye is peaking out. On the left is a facsimile of a podiatrists diagnosis: "Feeling suffocated, wrapped in despair, impaired vision, compulsive concealment."

existotherwise.com/terminal-blue/

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

Bluesky's 2025 $100M Series B Lays Foundation for Open Social Web - Bluesky In April 2025, Bluesky raised $100 million in Series B funding led by Bain Capital Crypto. Since our Series A, we've grown from 13 million to over 43 million global users.

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...

Who Do You Worship art by Carolina Gutfreund

#art by Carolina Guttfreund

existotherwise.com/who-do-you-w...

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

"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?

This issue took a bit longer for me to respond than I would prefer, but I did the best I could. Crazy reading period is underway.

Of course, if you submitted and have NOT gotten an email from me acknowledging your submission, please reach out.

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.

"alas, the city destroyed and removed this monument of humanity recently."

"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."

Black and white photograph of the inside of a bus stop shelter. There are two posters wheat-pasted onto the glass. One is a hand drawing of an African appearing woman holding a machete in one hand and a severed head in the other. In cartoon script are the words, “Off with his head!” The other poster is a typed flyer titled, “Atonement & Enlightenment,” which is advertising a “Q&A with a venurable mastur.” Both posters and the inside of the shelter are covered with a lot of various graffiti, including “Fuck Fascists, Stop Eating Pussy, Kill Democrats, Abolish ICE, and Kill All Nazis.” There are a lot more details, but I hope you get the drift.

#photography by Cleomé Morra

#GhostElephants movie is #ApocalypseNow for... elephants

Fuck the USA fuck Israel