Why Bother? is a photograph by #DeannaFaye in #ExistOtherwise #LitJournal...

This is not it. To see the photograph, click through.

As a disabled artist who struggles with mental health issues, art is her way of navigating both the joy and despair of the human condition. Deanna is on instagram.

https://existotherwise.com/why-bother/

existotherwise.com/villain/

art by #MikeDressel in #ExistOtherwise #LitJournal

#CaudeCahun used masks often in her art and writing

yes, we have artwork in #ExistOtherwise #LitJournal

this painting is by #SeaniceLenay

https://existotherwise.com/gluttony/

poetry by Cassie Urquhart in #ExistOtherwise #LitJournal for the #WritingCommunity

"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)..."

https://existotherwise.com/autobiography-of-a-queer-bug-child/

Issue 18 of #ExistOtherwise #LitJournal officially publishes tomorrow, but here is the link for our social #WritingCommunity

https://existotherwise.com/tag/issue-18/

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.

https://vashtimedia.com/cahun-moore-antifascist-queer-surrealist-art/

"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

https://www.existotherwise.com/stay-in-the-garden-get-civilized-procreate-muck-it-up/

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:

https://www.existotherwise.com/editorial-calendar/

this #photography #SelfPortrait speaks to me of #sanctuary

by Victoria Ojo in #ExistOtherwise #LitJournal
https://www.existotherwise.com/healing-streams/