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"they bin hop. garbage crawl. zip in circles chasing their own ghost tails. by the time mosquitoes have mafia’d their way into the park, they’ve all spiralled down. are sprawled on a carpet / of their own wings" —Lavanya Arora beestungmag.com/issue27/one-...

"they bin hop. garbage crawl. zip in circles chasing their own ghost tails. by the time mosquitoes have mafia’d their way into the park, they’ve all spiralled down. are sprawled on a carpet / of their own wings" —Lavanya Arora beestungmag.com/issue27/one-...

"i rise and bob above their sticky influence. my skull’s about to burst at the intro, then i let it. fuck the dam." —Czaerra Galicinao Ucol Read more in beestung #5 here: beestungmag.com/issue05/one-...

"i rise and bob above their sticky influence. my skull’s about to burst at the intro, then i let it. fuck the dam." —Czaerra Galicinao Ucol Read more in beestung #5 here: beestungmag.com/issue05/one-...

"We planned out the areas where we would bitch shop. CJ liked Forever 21, H&M, and Aéropostale—“more quality women there,” she claimed." —KB Brookins beestungmag.com/issue27/one-...

"We planned out the areas where we would bitch shop. CJ liked Forever 21, H&M, and Aéropostale—“more quality women there,” she claimed." —KB Brookins beestungmag.com/issue27/one-...

“herb of the sun presents every element of Délise’s writing that makes it unmatchable: the exacto-knife precision of naming the problem, the refusal in discussing it, and the unwillingness to absolve those responsible for the horror.” —Jackie Torres www.sundresspublications.com/e-chaps/herb...

"Sanding down Medusa’s girldick, Michaelangelo considers what serpent-hair should tuck against her thigh..." —Ellie Howard beestungmag.com/issue09/one-...

"Sanding down Medusa’s girldick, Michaelangelo considers what serpent-hair should tuck against her thigh..." —Ellie Howard beestungmag.com/issue09/one-...

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"closer to death by age and drugs i’m always surprised when i awake & the walls aren’t made of the same fire that burns in the look of my lovers’ eyes when i first arrive" —Christian M. Ivey beestungmag.com/issue27/two-...

"closer to death by age and drugs i’m always surprised when i awake & the walls aren’t made of the same fire that burns in the look of my lovers’ eyes when i first arrive" —Christian M. Ivey beestungmag.com/issue27/two-...

"is the pressure okay?/i must make it so/since the fatty masses are no longer there/grandfather’s clay ditch runs from liver to left center of daddy’s heart/glass bottles now row crops/burrowed and budding/" —Amari Amai beestungmag.com/issue21/one-...

"is the pressure okay?/i must make it so/since the fatty masses are no longer there/grandfather’s clay ditch runs from liver to left center of daddy’s heart/glass bottles now row crops/burrowed and budding/" —Amari Amai beestungmag.com/issue21/one-...

#FF It’s Disability Pride Month! Give some ❤️ and a follow to these publications that are disabled- and neurodivergent-led: @alocasiamag.bsky.social @beestung.bsky.social @genrepunkmag.bsky.social @thesolitarydaisy.bsky.social And us! Let us know who else should be on this list!

"Posthuman turns on the camera. Their body is already a cybernetic system–what remains but the upload? The viral response? Naked, Posthuman adjusts the lighting, assumes a provocative pose, filters personhood into pornography." —Esmé Kaplan-Kinsey beestungmag.com/issue27/two-...

"Posthuman turns on the camera. Their body is already a cybernetic system–what remains but the upload? The viral response? Naked, Posthuman adjusts the lighting, assumes a provocative pose, filters personhood into pornography." —Esmé Kaplan-Kinsey beestungmag.com/issue27/two-...

About two weeks to apply! ALOCASIA is now open for applications for the 2026 ALOCASIA Microgrant for Queer Nature Writers! Two recipients will receive $500 each to help incubate their future creative endeavors. Deadline: July 31st, 2026. alocasia.org/alocasias-mi...

"And eventually the star, the two disembodied stars, find each other" —Joanna Valente beestungmag.com/issue01/two-...

"And eventually the star, the two disembodied stars, find each other" —Joanna Valente beestungmag.com/issue01/two-...

Our 2027 Best of the Net nominations are now open until September 30th! For more information on how to submit, go to bestofthenetanthology.com/submissions/

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"Does it get you off, looking like the Marlboro Man of midtown?" —Birch Wiley beestungmag.com/issue27/one-...

"Does it get you off, looking like the Marlboro Man of midtown?" —Birch Wiley beestungmag.com/issue27/one-...

These microgrants have been designed to have a super simple application process (brief personal statement, bio, writing sample!), because we want to give you money, we don't want to make you jump through hoops. Be queer, write about plants and get $$$!!!

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About two weeks to apply! ALOCASIA is now open for applications for the 2026 ALOCASIA Microgrant for Queer Nature Writers! Two recipients will receive $500 each to help incubate their future creative endeavors. Deadline: July 31st, 2026. alocasia.org/alocasias-mi...

Queer & / or Feminist Archives in the 2020s: 15-minute survey docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... deadline extended to July 25 Please fill this out right now and tell your friends to, as well. It's a chance to share what you've been going through or brag that you haven't been going through it

Queer & / or Feminist Archives in the 2020s

My name is Jenna Freedman, and I'm the founder and former Director of the Barnard Zine Library and an adjunct lecturer at the Queens College School of Information Studies. I am working on a book chapt...

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Hey, friends! I’m reading some of my weird little poems at the CHEEKS launch in NYC on Friday, July 31. At the one and only YU & ME BOOKS! If you’re in town, I’d absolutely love to see you there. Thanks for supporting this great new literary magazine. 💜

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Olyoke by Vincent Endwell

While Vincent Endwell’s Olyoke is presented as a collection of linked stories, it reads more like parables from the scriptures of an Appalachian cult, demonstrating preoccupations with multiple ove…

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BLACK HOLE SCIENCE by @never.horse 💥 poems (?????) 🌿 won't be boxed in 🌠 otherworldly ✨ SaraLand Grab this little volume and GET LOST ⚧️ 🐾🐾 traumbooks.com/black-hole-s...