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Exist Otherwise

Exist Otherwise is a Literary & Art Journal inspired by the gender-nonconforming artists and anti-fascist activists, Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore.

Oakland, CA

Exist Otherwise cover image

Untitled Wanton, a license Post feature image

April 09, 2025

Untitled Wanton, a license

Terror Without End or End With Terror! Post feature image

April 09, 2025

Terror Without End or End With Terror!

Submission Responses for #14 Are Complete Post feature image

March 27, 2025

Submission Responses for #14 Are Complete

"Exist Otherwise" in eccentric black letters on gold. Under it is an anti-fascists symbol.

March 21, 2025

Occupation Logo

Submission Opportunity Post feature image

March 21, 2025

Submission Opportunity

Themes Posted Post feature image

March 11, 2025

Themes Posted

vintage photograph of an assemblage of flowers, gloves, a sword, and shadows

March 04, 2025

March Announcements

vintage grainy photo of a small wooden human figure holding a large key and standing next to a large inverted hammer

March 02, 2025

Submissions Closed Until April 16

Why Memberships? Post feature image

January 14, 2025

Why Memberships?

Issue 13 PDF Post feature image

January 12, 2025

Issue 13 PDF

News for Issue 13 Post feature image

January 12, 2025

News for Issue 13

Carolina, with red hair, bangs and freckles is wearing a top with a floral pattern. She is smiling and looking at the camera

January 09, 2025

pass, past, passed

What I Was Raised By Post feature image

January 09, 2025

What I Was Raised By

The author is smiling into a phone camera, taking a selfie, wearing a baseball cap that says, "charli,"

January 09, 2025

Reading Queerly

Black and white photo of the author with long dark hair, turned away form the camera. They are holding a cigarrette.

January 09, 2025

All [self-vanishing] farewells are sudden

A brown owl perched on a branch in front of a background of green leaves. Its orange eyes are looking at the viewer.

January 09, 2025

Flaco

A white woman with freckles wearing yellow glasses. She has a small nose stud and her hair is brown with short tousled bangs

January 09, 2025

(She’s Actually a Succulent)

A dark skinned man with close cropped hair and trim moustache and goatee, wearin g headphones, in front of a microphone.

January 09, 2025

Home Writing

Consecrated by Use Post feature image

January 09, 2025

Consecrated by Use

A brightly smiling man with a striking van-dyke beard, looking directy at the viewer.

January 09, 2025

The “master of the death match,” Nick Gage

A smiling young woman wearing a colorful floral dress.

January 09, 2025

Healing Streams

A woman with blue eyes and black eyeliner in a red summer dress seated, leaning against a tree. Her look is melancholy.

January 09, 2025

1. Sipping: See; Water

[with winter sky] Post feature image

January 09, 2025

[with winter sky]

A guy standing in the woods with his hands in his pockets, looking away from the viewer. A figure peeks from behind a tree.

January 09, 2025

Water Gigantism

Crash, A Shape Post feature image

January 09, 2025

Crash, A Shape

Line drawing of a High Priestess Tarot card. The image depicts a blindfolded woman rising from flames in front of the moon.

January 09, 2025

Phrenzied

Very dark, grainy, low contrast photograph of an androgynous person with a cheroot in their mouth.

January 09, 2025

Stay in the Garden, Get Civilized, Procreate, Muck It Up

Photography Post feature image

December 19, 2024

Photography

Minor Change in Contributor Fees (Photography) Post feature image

December 19, 2024

Minor Change in Contributor Fees (Photography)

Vintage photo of the famous photographer Weegee, a stout older guy with a cigar in his mouth.

December 19, 2024

By the Grace of Goldilox

Coming soon Post feature image

November 06, 2024

Coming soon