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.

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Issue #26 — winter 2026

“Yet, I am not dead. I am still here. And my organs still demand the most political of sensations. A writer wrote that writing is like inviting someone in between your spread legs. Here are my legs, spread wide.”

—Claire Star Finch translated by Sam Nartus-Fois