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a quarterly mag of non-binary & genderqueer & two-spirit writers that’s sweet & stings | imprint of sundress publications | eic sarahclark.bsky.social www.beestungmag.com beestungmag.com/newsletter

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OTHERSIDE @othersidespec.bsky.social · 11h

ISSUE 3 IS HERE! And completely free to read! We're SO excited for you to read this issue 🧡 It's bleak and beautiful and heartbreaking... and, as always, spectacularly queer. Give it a read, tell a friend, help us spread the word! Read it here: othersidespec.com/issues/issue-3/

White text on a red and black background, with the magazine cover on the left. The magazine cover has eroded statues in the background with a figure standing in the foreground. Text says: OTHERSIDE ISSUE 3. Nine stories, four poems, one essay, original art by queer creators available now!

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beestung @beestung.bsky.social · 14h

"Do you think Janeway would strap me? Oh, Kathryn, my Captain, I’m locked in your quadrant. And no, Neelix, you can’t watch." —George Violet Parker beestungmag.com/issue28/spac...

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Space Fuckin’ by George Violet Parker

beestung @beestung.bsky.social · 14h

"Do you think Janeway would strap me? Oh, Kathryn, my Captain, I’m locked in your quadrant. And no, Neelix, you can’t watch." —George Violet Parker beestungmag.com/issue28/spac...

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Space Fuckin’ by George Violet Parker

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Cavar 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 ✡️ @cavar.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

In conversation with my incredible friend @theoceanisgay.bsky.social for @anmlymag.bsky.social 's DIS/CONNECT !!! About Mad/disorderly poetics, opacity, and more.

dis/connect: A Hole, A Moon, A Universe: Poetics & Mad Opacities: A Dialogue with Ally Ang

[cavar] While reading Let The Moon Wobble, I was thinking not only about its genesis but about the role of absence and loss in it. I’m…

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FORGE @forgeforwardtrans.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

We loved how Yasmine Bolden's "Untitled Black Genderqueer Friendship Poem" makes connection something physical and embodied, capturing the lasting impacts of being known by a friend with shared experiences. "let me love you, dearly." Make sure to read the full poem at forge.tips/zine!

Three slides with a red/orange sunset background image. Slide 1 text: "Trans Survivors Issue #6: Braided Selves: Race & Culture. Untitled Black Genderqueer Friendship Poem by Yasmine Bolden. 'i once read that one pound of sugar can be enough / to slow the solidification of dozens of pounds of concrete. please / ruin me like that: halve an orange and share it with me / as the citric acid shares itself with my eczema-born cuts, / stinging & singing like summertime porch talks and walks / during which the mosquitoes go to town on my dark exposed ankles, / reminding me that even my angles are soft and tender. / let me bake you tenders, badly. let me love you, dearly.' forge.tips/zine."

Slide 2 text: "About the Writer. Yasmine Bolden. Yasmine Bolden (they/them) is a poet and gendersapphic descendant of Black/Nahiłií women who heard the earth speaking to them through their gardens and lovingly spoke back. They were a 2024 Writers in Baltimore Schools Teaching Fellow, a 2026 Project Poetic Teaching Artist, and they co-founded Bluejays & Poets, Johns Hopkins University's premier poetry and performance organization, and Linked Hearts..."

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Briar Ripley Page @flameswallower.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

new story! flameswallower.itch.io/equinox

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Equinox by Briar Ripley Page

a möbius strip novelette

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Hal Schrieve - writer and librarian ze/hir @halschrieve.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

smokeandmold.net/interviews/o... very honored to have this very attentive engaged interview with Crystal Odelle about my Views and Ideas on vampirism and what it means to hunger. Crystal had a vamp story i loved a while ago also in smoke and mold

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It’s About Sex

On Hurting, Hunger, and Staying Alive with Hal Schrieve Interview by Crystal Odelle Fawn’s Blood by Hal Schrieve “Andrew, we’re complex. We contain both the evil of men and the evil of teen g…

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 21/09/2026

shoutout to infinite mac, without which this would not have been possible www.them.us/story/early-...

You Can Now Look Back at the Early Trans Internet. Yes, There Were Memes

Three years of TGForum posts were found on a CD-ROM — and uploaded for all to browse.

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Sundress Publications @sundresspub.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Accepting submissions till Oct. 15! Authors & editors of works that have gone out of print may submit full-length or short books, including creative nonfiction, fiction, & poetry. Submit: doublebackbooks.com #bookx #authorx #writerx #smallpressx #openforsubmissions

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Sundress Publications @sundresspub.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This week on The Wardrobe, Guest Editor EMDASH and Merrick Sloane selected pieces from Erika Gill’s Lone Yellow Flower published by Querencia Press. sundressblog.com/2026/09/24/the-war…

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beestung @beestung.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"Light speed travel invented via gay sex. Don’t stumble on your words there, this trans body is a sacred mound" Read Kai Minosh Pyle in beestung #4! beestungmag.com/issue04/one-...

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One Poem by Kai Minosh Pyle

beestung @beestung.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"Light speed travel invented via gay sex. Don’t stumble on your words there, this trans body is a sacred mound" Read Kai Minosh Pyle in beestung #4! beestungmag.com/issue04/one-...

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One Poem by Kai Minosh Pyle

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beestung @beestung.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"All the weeping willow girls, with bent backs like cursive have all slipped away for the night fading into the upholstery of unfamiliar cars" —Sheema Holmes beestungmag.com/issue28/hey-...

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Hey, Love by Sheema Holmes

beestung @beestung.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"All the weeping willow girls, with bent backs like cursive have all slipped away for the night fading into the upholstery of unfamiliar cars" —Sheema Holmes beestungmag.com/issue28/hey-...

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Hey, Love by Sheema Holmes

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beestung @beestung.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"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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One Poem by Ellie Howard

beestung @beestung.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"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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One Poem by Ellie Howard

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Sundress Publications @sundresspub.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This week on The Wardrobe, Guest Editor EMDASH and Merrick Sloane selected pieces from Erika Gill’s Lone Yellow Flower published by Querencia Press. sundressblog.com/2026/09/22/the-war…

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Sundress Publications @sundresspub.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This week on The Wardrobe, Guest Editor EMDASH and Merrick Sloane selected pieces from Erika Gill’s Lone Yellow Flower published by Querencia Press. sundressblog.com/2026/09/23/the-war…

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beestung @beestung.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"In the shower, we compare her eating disorder to my gender dysphoria. We’re running low on food stamps" —Madeleine Poole beestungmag.com/issue28/midd...

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Midday, my lover brings home groceries by Madeleine Poole

beestung @beestung.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"In the shower, we compare her eating disorder to my gender dysphoria. We’re running low on food stamps" —Madeleine Poole beestungmag.com/issue28/midd...

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Midday, my lover brings home groceries by Madeleine Poole

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beestung @beestung.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"It’s (possibly) the holiest night of the holiest month, & I feel vulgar. Often, I am disgusted by how much I think of god. How his blue-eyes will drown my sorrow. How his many-hands will cup my liquid body." —Javeria Hasnain beestungmag.com/issue13/two-...

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Two Poems by Javeria Hasnain

beestung @beestung.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"It’s (possibly) the holiest night of the holiest month, & I feel vulgar. Often, I am disgusted by how much I think of god. How his blue-eyes will drown my sorrow. How his many-hands will cup my liquid body." —Javeria Hasnain beestungmag.com/issue13/two-...

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Two Poems by Javeria Hasnain

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Sundress Publications @sundresspub.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

We are now accepting applications for short-term writing residencies in all genres for our summer residency period. Free submissions all of September. www.sundresspublications.com/safta/…

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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Happy #HispanicHeritageMonth! Join us in celebrating by picking your next reads from our 2026 reading list: www.clmp.org/news/a-readi...

A Reading List for Hispanic Heritage Month 2026 - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses

For National Hispanic Heritage Month, observed annually from September 15 to October 15, we asked our members to share with us some of the literature they recommend reading in celebration. (Learn…

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beestung @beestung.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"tonight I will miss you so bad i will squeeze a pillow to my chest imagine that weight is you smothering me" —Harri Chan beestungmag.com/issue28/emot...

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emotional saw traps by Harri Chan

beestung @beestung.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"tonight I will miss you so bad i will squeeze a pillow to my chest imagine that weight is you smothering me" —Harri Chan beestungmag.com/issue28/emot...

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emotional saw traps by Harri Chan

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beestung @beestung.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Thank you @clmporg.bsky.social for highlighting two pieces from beestung by Aerik Francis and Loren Maria Guay for Latine/Hispanic Heritage Month!

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beestung @beestung.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Happening this afternoon!! Email us for the link to attend!!! 🐝🐝🐝

beestung @beestung.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Happening this afternoon!! Email us for the link to attend!!! 🐝🐝🐝

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beestung @beestung.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Happening tomorrow! Email us for the link!! 💛🐝

beestung @beestung.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Happening tomorrow! Email us for the link!! 💛🐝

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beestung @beestung.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Join us for an afternoon of desire at the virtual author reading in celebration of The Pleasure Issue on September 20th from 12-2pm PT / 3-5pm ET Free w/ a suggested $4 d0nation to our GFM > gofundme.com/f/beestung-y... > Email us for the link at beestung@sundresspublications.com!

Art of two Black people embracing. One figure holds the other from behind, both nude and seated, the sole of one person's foot showing. The person in the front has their cheek cupped by the person behind them. Text reads: beestung, August 2026, Pleasure. Guest edited by Christian M. Ivey. Illustration by Ava Glori Tuitt.

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Harri @heyriette.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This Sunday! I’ll be channeling my inner Jigsaw and reading a poem here

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beestung @beestung.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"On our first night together I am bruising but nothing is getting eaten but me. Love bites of passion" —Britny Cordera beestungmag.com/issue28/brui...

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Bruises by Britny Cordera

beestung @beestung.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Thank you @clmporg.bsky.social for highlighting two pieces from beestung by Aerik Francis and Loren Maria Guay for Latine/Hispanic Heritage Month!

beestung @beestung.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"On our first night together I am bruising but nothing is getting eaten but me. Love bites of passion" —Britny Cordera beestungmag.com/issue28/brui...

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Bruises by Britny Cordera

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beestung @beestung.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

happy birthday, SOPHIE 💔

beestung @beestung.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

happy birthday, SOPHIE 💔

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beestung @beestung.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"Who knew what it was to be a man in a boy body, under the blankets, one hand on my penis and another on the back button of the remote control. The most extreme sport." —Donnie Moreland beestungmag.com/issue28/bet-...

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BET Uncut and dogfart network by Donnie Moreland

beestung @beestung.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"Who knew what it was to be a man in a boy body, under the blankets, one hand on my penis and another on the back button of the remote control. The most extreme sport." —Donnie Moreland beestungmag.com/issue28/bet-...

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BET Uncut and dogfart network by Donnie Moreland

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Sundress Publications @sundresspub.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"This powerful collection weaves together love letters to 'nappy-haired little Black girls with too much to say' and elegies to art that is 'only worthy if it is profitable, profitable if it is topical, and topical if it’s digestible.' www.sundresspublications.com/e-chaps/herb...

Download herb of the sun today!

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beestung @beestung.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"It is the bygone summer sea that dissipated the memories Of the stars in your auburn eyes" —Liu Yuniang beestungmag.com/issue28/nowa...

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Nowaki by Liu Yuniang

beestung @beestung.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Join us for an afternoon of desire at the virtual author reading in celebration of The Pleasure Issue on September 20th from 12-2pm PT / 3-5pm ET Free w/ a suggested $4 d0nation to our GFM > gofundme.com/f/beestung-y... > Email us for the link at beestung@sundresspublications.com!

Art of two Black people embracing. One figure holds the other from behind, both nude and seated, the sole of one person's foot showing. The person in the front has their cheek cupped by the person behind them. Text reads: beestung, August 2026, Pleasure. Guest edited by Christian M. Ivey. Illustration by Ava Glori Tuitt.

Author Readings

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Insights from Illustrator

September 20th
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM PT
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Sundress Publications @sundresspub.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Best of the Net closes for nominations on 9/30. Each journal may nominate up to six poems, two stories, two works of creative nonfiction, and three art pieces published online between 07/01/25 and 06/30/26. Find the full nomination guidelines here: bestofthenetanthology.com/submissio…

beestung @beestung.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"It is the bygone summer sea that dissipated the memories Of the stars in your auburn eyes" —Liu Yuniang beestungmag.com/issue28/nowa...

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Nowaki by Liu Yuniang

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Always Crashing @alwayscrashing.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

OH WAIT THAT'S TODAY

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OTHERSIDE @othersidespec.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Issue 3 is OUT NOW FOR SUBSCRIBERS! Check your email! 🪐🗡️🧡 If you aren't a subscriber, Issue 3 will be free online September 30th! But if you'd like to support us and read Issue 3 before anyone else, snag your copy today! Patreon: www.patreon.com/OthersideSpe... Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/othersidespe...

White text on a red and black background, with the magazine cover on the left. The magazine cover has eroded statues in the background with a figure standing in the foreground. Text says: OTHERSIDE ISSUE 3. Nine stories, four poems, one essay, original art by queer creators available now for subscribers! www.othersidespec.com

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Lillie E. Franks @lilliekoi.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

New one up at Hex Literary! Is this story me working through my childhood reaction to reading The Sneetches? …Maybe!

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sarah clark (they) @sarahclark.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

oops oops oops gave you all the wrong email to get the link from before this is the right one (RTs appreciated!)

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beestung @beestung.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"I am a headful of detritus with a tank full of gas and no will, survival a Black beauty supply two miles too far" —Cai Sherley beestungmag.com/issue28/afro...

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Afro Pick Elegy by Cai Sherley