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-...
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.
"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
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"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
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"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
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#DigitalArt by Cleomé Morra in #ExistOtherwise #LitJournal #JeanDarc
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are you on #Fediverse / #Mastodon?
#ExistOtherwise #LitJournal (that's us) *is* social media
you can follow/read/comment and otherwise interact with all of our content here: @cc@existotherwise.com
Elaine Freyja writes about "being in a flesh suit."
#NonBinary #poetry #ExistOtherwise
www.existotherwise.com/non-binary/
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
Reminder that issues 1-12 of #ExistOtherwise #LitJournal are still available at their original home. We moved from Wordpress to Ghost beginning with issue 13, but we will keep all issues online as long as we're alive.
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#flash #prose that makes you go, "hmmmm..."
Winter Thunder by Paul Kremsreiter on #ExistOtherwise #LitJournal
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Issue #15 of #ExistOtherwise #LitJournal is live for your viewing pleasure.
We are a journal of contemporary #writing, #poetry, and #art, inspired by #ClaudeCahun
The theme for this issue is "Soldier Without A Name"
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Issue #15 of #ExistOtherwise #LitJournal will be live (tomorrow) Sunday, July 13, sometime in the afternoon or evening.
Theme: Solider Without a Name
EO is inspired by #ClaudeCahun and #MarcelMoore
as of today, we have responded to all #submissions for Issue 15 of #ExistOtherwise
if you submitted for this issue and have NOT heard back from us, please reach out
(some email responses bounced due to bad email address)
our inaugural issue is still online for your viewing pleasure and edification
#ExistOtherwise #LitJournal inspired by #ClaudeCahun
existotherwise.cc/issue-1-sep-...
just saw someone rejecting the concept of a #muse because it has been used by shitty men to objectify women
food for thought
maybe we'll start referring to #ClaudeCahun and #Marcel Moore as #mentors
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#submissions are open for Issue 15 of #ExistOtherwise Lit Journal
Theme is "Solider Without a Name"
accepting all kinds of #writing
accepting #photography (occasionally other forms of #art)
www.existotherwise.com/submissions-...
Issue #14 of #ExistOtherwise #LitJournal is live.
When I began EO I didn't know that the US government was about to be taken over by an alliance of christian nationalists and tech-bro, authoritarian, white supremacists.
Art, Creativity, and Joy are acts of #Resistance.
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We have finished responding to all submissions for Issue 14 of #ExistOtherwise #LitJournal
If you submitted work to us for this issue and have NOT heard back from us, please reach out.
This was the hardest issue to select works for. We had to turn down a lot of beautiful work.
#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.
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color photo of a small concrete cemetery statue of a saint. the figure's head has broken off and is laying on the ground. the background is abstractions of blues and greens, creating a mysterious and soothing mood
"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
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Themes have been posted for the next three issues of #ExistOtherwise #LitJournal
Issue 15 (July): "Soldier Without a Name"
Issue 16 (October): "Neuter is the Only Gender That Suits Me"
Issue 17 (January 2026): "Cancelled Confessions"
#Submissions Windows are posted here:
www.existotherwise.c...
"She's Actually a Succulent"
No, not @laurendodge.bsky.social. That's the title of her prose poem in #ExistOtherwise #LitJournal, which may or may not be #ekphrastic...
www.existotherwise.com/shes-actuall...
"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
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Issue 13 of #ExistOtherwise #LitJournal is live. We are a journal of creative writing and photography, inspired by the gender non-conforming artists #ClaudeCahun and #MarcelMoore.
We migrated away from Wordpress to Ghost, and we are trying to build a small community.
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