Exist Otherwise Literary & Art Journal
@existotherwise.bsky.social
Claude Cahun, Marcel Moore, Surrealism, Anti-Fascist, Poetry, Essays, Scripts, Prose, Fiction, Art (existotherwise.com) (existotherwise.cc)
Editor Eric Jennings (he/him), #MaleSurvivor Artist & Writer
Editor Eric Jennings (he/him), #MaleSurvivor Artist & Writer
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Issue 16 - Exist Otherwise
A Journal of Cancelled Confessions, Inspired by Claude Cahun & Marcel Moore
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Issue #16 of Exist Otherwise Literary & Art Journal is live.
The theme for this one is "Neuter is the Only Gender That Suits Me."
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#LitJournal #poetry #writing #ExistOtherwise
The theme for this one is "Neuter is the Only Gender That Suits Me."
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#LitJournal #poetry #writing #ExistOtherwise
"As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag." —Patti Smith, as quoted in Let Me Be Everything, a poem by Emma Goldman-Sherman
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Let Me Be Everything
poetry by Emma Goldman-Sherman
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December 10, 2025 at 4:43 PM
"As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag." —Patti Smith, as quoted in Let Me Be Everything, a poem by Emma Goldman-Sherman
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"No inhibitions were in play at the moment; I felt nothing at the fact of us peeing near each other, focused on the warm release. Nothing, until he swung around and continued pissing, on me, to the point of inundation..."
#prose by Deborah Douglas Wilbrink
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#prose by Deborah Douglas Wilbrink
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Inundated
prose by Deborah Douglas Wilbrink
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December 2, 2025 at 1:19 AM
"No inhibitions were in play at the moment; I felt nothing at the fact of us peeing near each other, focused on the warm release. Nothing, until he swung around and continued pissing, on me, to the point of inundation..."
#prose by Deborah Douglas Wilbrink
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#prose by Deborah Douglas Wilbrink
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#submissions are supposed to be closed as of yesterday, but i've been traveling and just got home so i'm leaving the form online for another day or so...
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Submission Form
Submissions Are Open
Theme for Issue 17, January 2026 is:
This is What Resistance Looks Like
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December 2, 2025 at 1:12 AM
#submissions are supposed to be closed as of yesterday, but i've been traveling and just got home so i'm leaving the form online for another day or so...
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"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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#poetry by Leyelle M.G.
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Pretty Little Shades of Gray
poetry by Leyelle M.G.
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November 18, 2025 at 11:48 PM
"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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#poetry by Leyelle M.G.
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3rd Annual @chillsubs.bsky.social Community Favorites Best Lit Mag Awards!
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3rd Annual @chillsubs.bsky.social Community Favorites Best Lit Mag Awards!
It will only take a few seconds to nominate us. Would you do us this small kindness, to help expose a few more readers to our talented and inspiring contributors?
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Best Lit Mag Awards - Chill Subs
Welcome to Chill Subs' 3rd annual Community Favorites Best Lit Mag Awards! Vote for your favorite literary magazines and celebrate the publications that make our community thrive.
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November 18, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Call for Support!
3rd Annual @chillsubs.bsky.social Community Favorites Best Lit Mag Awards!
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3rd Annual @chillsubs.bsky.social Community Favorites Best Lit Mag Awards!
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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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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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What You Refuse to Remember by MT Vallarta — Small Harbor Publishing
Winner of the 2021 Laureate Prize
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October 27, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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
www.smallharborpublishing.com/books/what-y...
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
www.smallharborpublishing.com/books/what-y...
"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
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headlines my breaking news
notifications so i marry do not disturb
because i feel myself becoming numb..."
poetry by kayla nichols
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overstimulation of an empire’s fall
poetry by kayla nichols
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October 27, 2025 at 8:13 PM
"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
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headlines my breaking news
notifications so i marry do not disturb
because i feel myself becoming numb..."
poetry by kayla nichols
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October 27, 2025 at 8:11 PM
October 24, 2025 at 2:35 AM
"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
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#poetry by S. Abdulwasi’h Olaitan
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manual of becoming
poetry by S. Abdulwasi’h Olaitan
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October 22, 2025 at 7:52 PM
"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
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#poetry by S. Abdulwasi’h Olaitan
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#FuckTheCIStem sticker is a hard one to write alt text for
October 21, 2025 at 10:59 PM
#FuckTheCIStem sticker is a hard one to write alt text for
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I think there are multiple American traditions...but one of them is fascist, and Trump is very recognizably in that tradition.
October 21, 2025 at 7:37 PM
I think there are multiple American traditions...but one of them is fascist, and Trump is very recognizably in that tradition.
"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
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of hearts and played it. I went home and heard
the world’s smallest violin..."
#poetry by Caitlin Cacciatore
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Someone Else’s Daughter
Poetry by Caitlin Cacciatore
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October 21, 2025 at 7:47 PM
"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
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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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October 20, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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: @[email protected]
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"chick in a membrane
waiting to crack
through to the wider world..."
#poetry by Golda Grais
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waiting to crack
through to the wider world..."
#poetry by Golda Grais
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dove to cunt
poetry by Golda Grais
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October 20, 2025 at 8:08 PM
"chick in a membrane
waiting to crack
through to the wider world..."
#poetry by Golda Grais
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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
October 19, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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
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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
find it via the link, or wherever you get your podcasts
Episode 9: Marcel Moore & Claude Cahun: Surrealist Antifa Revolutionaries!
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January 24, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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
find it via the link, or wherever you get your podcasts
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Portraits in Pride, celebrating queer people! Today: Claude Cahun.
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#Pride #portrait #claudecahun #queer
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#Pride #portrait #claudecahun #queer
June 5, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Portraits in Pride, celebrating queer people! Today: Claude Cahun.
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#Pride #portrait #claudecahun #queer
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#Pride #portrait #claudecahun #queer
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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
As Claude Cahun
Sono Una Fotografia
On body, androgyny, resistance, and identity
#photography #eastcoastkin #classicmono #ArtofSelfPortraiture #homage #claudecahun
October 19, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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
As Claude Cahun
Sono Una Fotografia
On body, androgyny, resistance, and identity
#photography #eastcoastkin #classicmono #ArtofSelfPortraiture #homage #claudecahun
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Check out the latest episode of my other podcast @theseoldqueers.bsky.social about Nazi subvertin' badass queer couple: #ClaudeCahun and #MarcelMoore !
Episode 9: Marcel Moore & Claude Cahun: Surrealist Antifa Revolutionaries!
These Old Queers · Episode
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January 24, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Check out the latest episode of my other podcast @theseoldqueers.bsky.social about Nazi subvertin' badass queer couple: #ClaudeCahun and #MarcelMoore !
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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
from The Marie photographs
#Photography
October 12, 2025 at 4:55 AM
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
from The Marie photographs
#Photography
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Dutch photographer Nona Limmen
#Photography
#Photography
October 12, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Dutch photographer Nona Limmen
#Photography
#Photography
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Contemporary experimental German photographer Floris Neusüss.
Traumbilder (c), München, 1958
#Photography
Traumbilder (c), München, 1958
#Photography
October 12, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Contemporary experimental German photographer Floris Neusüss.
Traumbilder (c), München, 1958
#Photography
Traumbilder (c), München, 1958
#Photography
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October 12, 2025 at 5:05 AM