beestung issue #25
Being here for the duration & doing the dishes. Altar rails & touching up mullets. Disastrous atrophy & boba tea. Setting our fields ablaze. beestung #25 is here w/ Dylan McNulty-Holmes, Willow Sipling, Izzy Peroni, Helen Robertson, Yufan Lu, michal "mj" jones, & more! www.beestungmag.com
Cover of Foglifter Journal featuring two cowboys embracing, wearing blue jean jackets, pink scarves, and white cowboys hats.
Gray Agpalo (@kalam4nsi) Hannah Keziah-Agustin (@quichesiya) Rayan Al-Awar (@l0tswife) Mya / Matteo Alexice (@myamatteoalexice) Matthew Torralba Andrews (@mtmdrews) Kristen Arnett (@kristen_arnett) Atusa Assadi Alex Bortell (@alexbortell) Haley Bossé (@haleyb____e) Wayne Bund (@bundlandia) Rivka Clifton (@cutratebreakfast) Dakota Collins (@dcllins) Sara Daniels Meredith Macleod Davidson (@mairmacleod) grace (ge) gilbert (@g_eva_) Rae Gouirand (@rgouirand) Maria Gray (@gariamray) Ranundi Gunawardena (@girl_gone_wilde) Hunter Hazelton (@hunterlhazelton)
David Hopson Ellie Howard (@umbra_ellie) Anthony Hurd (@anthonyhurd) Jojo Kaeiolu (@kaeiolu) Ai Khanoum (@ai.khanoummm) Jana Malkia Lang (@planetcrab) Keenan Lew (@keenanspictures) Andy Lopez (@andylopezwrites) Zander Moreno-Lozano (@cactidad) Cloud Lu Dylan McNulty-Holmes (@dyl.amh) Nino McQuown (@allsoils) Mikah Meyers (@lordwhalepig) Janine Mogannam (@hey_miss_j_) Jenny Molberg (@_jennysue_) Erin Noehre (@erin.rosecheek.renee) Crystal Odelle (@crystal_ography) Molly Olguin (@mollyolguin)
Lee Paehler (@leepaehler) Chen Poyu Lalini Ranaraja Rahul Singh (@fook_bood) Sarp Sozdinler (@sarpsozdinler) Lane Michael Stanley (@lanemichaelstanley) Luke Sutherland (@lukejsuth) Fernanda Coutinho Teixeira Ide Amari Thompson (@ifeille) Carla Torres (@cargoots) Marion Eames White (@marioneames) Nicholas Wong (@citiesofsameness) Joshua Zeitler (@the_jayest_of_zees)
Now available on our site: the ebook for Issue 10.2! We sold out of this issue so quickly that we're upping our print run for Issue 11.1, so thank you for subscribing to Foglifter and supporting queer and trans literature!
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"you circumference me and mark my
against the door, black lozenge of
never as high as I’d hoped: not
lifeguard, lofty as a heron..."
—Dylan McNulty-Holmes
"I cannibalized pleasure. Mylar desire painted my
Dark roots red and waited. I persisted
In the angle between her lashes’ shadows
And the fading bruise underneath."
—Dylan McNulty-Holmes
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“My once and future body, sandwiching himself between me
And my ex-lovers, failing to announce how any of us
Might like to be touched.”
From “My Once and Future Body,” a poem by Dylan Mcnulty-Holmes.
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Oh thank you so much Abigail! <3
"What is more human than being baffled and enraged
By your own kind?"
Absolutely delighted to read this today. An incredibly raw and sincere recounting of a life fought just to be lived. A blistering look at dysphoria and stigma, and the politics of just wanting to exist by @hotpoet.bsky.social
4. Graphic includes a headshot and bio of Dylan McNulty-Holmes, with text from his piece "HORMONAL TRANSITION: Troubleshooting"
"HORMONAL TRANSITION: Troubleshooting" by Dylan McNulty-Holmes appears in Issue 10.2.
@hotpoet.bsky.social
Karada House is trans. There’s barely a cis person among us. Here’s our not-so-short response to the cooked fuckery out of the UK this week: On Wednesday April 16th, the UK Supreme Court decided that trans women are not women. This ruling is part of an unbroken multi-decade attack going back to 1970s second-wave feminism, specifically against trans women and girls. It also rules against trans men and boys, and against non-binary people, as well defining who is a lesbian. It is part of a heteronormative agenda which includes anti-sex work, anti-porn, anti-BDSM, and is entirely born of a European white supremacist, Christian nationalist, settler colonial, racist, carceral, genocidal, capitalist ideology.
This legislative attack — like the 850+ anti-trans bills filed in the USA this year alone — is couched in the pseudoscience of biologic essentialism, and in the words of TERF Janice Raymond, states “…that the problem of transsexualism would best be served by morally mandating it out of existence.” What we’re not interested in right now — or frankly ever — is validation or appeals to authority. Empty slogans like ‘trans women are women’ or ‘trans rights are human rights’ do not help us.
We need to be safe in the streets. And in the sheets. We need to take a piss in public bathrooms without fear of being assaulted, arrested, and deported. We need uncontested access to material support like hormones, blood tests, top and bottom surgeries, and other medical procedures; rape crisis centres; employment protection; not being put men’s prisons; not having to have (unaffordable, unprocurable) surgery in order to change our ‘gender’ markers on official documents; not having to choose between homelessness or violence at home and school. We need access to puberty blockers and we need hormones at the same age as the cis kids. We need to not waste and lose our lives on this bullshit.
Denying us all these things and more are legislative decisions drawn from that moral position which says we must not exist. Just like how making sex work legal is the state once again non-consensually inserting itself in our working lives and bodies, we don’t need legislation, we need decriminalisation. We need sovereignty for ourselves. And we need cis people, straight, bi, queer, however you live your truth, to step the fuck up even harder than you already have and are. We need you to put yourselves up front and take the hits for us. Love, care, compassion, is also resistance. Stay strong.
Karada House is trans. There’s barely a cis person among us.
Here’s our not-so-short response to the cooked fuckery out of the UK last and this week.
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"embossed plane / blurred by tongue / and even placeless / it can no longer be denied / i am a man /"
This time last year, we published @hotpoet.bsky.social 's ODE TO MY PREPOSTEROUS TINY MOUSTACHE'S FIRST INTERNATIONAL FLIGHT. Find it in the archive! buff.ly/nr2BwGh
Really thrilled to be featured 😁
It’s the first Monday of the month which means a fresh newsletter. Featuring recommendations for poetry and short fiction by @hotpoet.bsky.social @mruthrobinson.bsky.social @bpladek.bsky.social and others.
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Book cover of "Survivalism for Hedonists", by Dylan McNulty-Holmes. The cover image is a distorted photograph of confetti and tinsel on a pink tiled floor.
My book is out!!!
Survivalism for Hedonists is a collection of cut-up-ish poems & a love letter to queer desire, staying resilient in a world that doesn't feel like it was designed for us & allowing ourselves to survive imperfectly & deliciously.
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Very concerned by the Berlin Senat effectively closing the queer migrant cultural space Oyoun over their hosting a vigil by Jewish Voice for Peace. It not only sets a chilling precedent but also takes away from Berlin’s independent culture. www.berliner-zeitung.de/news/berline...
Strange Horizons ran a special Palestine issue in 2021, the year of the last major Israeli bombing of Gaza. Please read these stories. It won’t help the current situation in any way, but Israel is intent on the genocide of the Palestinian people, and this includes their culture. Help keep it alive.
