beestung is a quarterly online micro-magazine for non-binary, genderqueer, and two-spirit writers and readers, with an emphasis on intracommunity sensibilities. beestung resists the canon and all forms of bigotry.
Issue #22 — winter 2025
“How you let them make you into a monster,
or a fantasy, or salvation
like you weren’t an offering.
Like you weren’t conjured from the people
in every corner of the planet.”
—Kelsey L. Smoot
- Reflection by Toni Garcia-Butler
- Letter from the Brooklyn Bridge by Robin Arble
- isn’t it so? by Christian M. Ivey
- i ask when trans day of remembrance is and siri says i don’t know what that is by Jazz Bell
- gospel xi by Em Roth
- Glory Days by Kelsey L. Smoot
- FULL-FRONTAL THREAD COUNT and SEMIOLOGY: RESTLESSNESS by Mac Wilder
- Fat4Fat by Aerik Francis
- Exorcisms for Gay Girls by Merlin June Mack
- Eternity by Mads Lupold
- Dressing Room— by Carla S. Schick
- Delusionship Bingo by Nnenna Loveth Umelo Uzoma Nwafor
- Considering Gin Considering Gone by Lizz Mangan
- “There are major moves in the market” by C.M. Green