that’s sweet and stings

March 5, 2023 1:41 PM

beestung has published some glorious and heart wrenching stories recently. Beautiful Meanings in Beautiful Things by Avery Briar explores variations on intergenerational queer acceptance, both incomplete and unconditional. Goldie Peacock provides glimpses of nonbinary euphoria and stomaches in "2010" and "notes from the past 24 hours in my androgynous apartment" (content warning for drug use).

From the about page:

beestung is a quarterly online micro-magazine for non-binary and two-spirit writers and readers, with an emphasis on intracommunity sensibilities. beestung resists the canon and all forms of bigotry.

Title is taken from the magazine's subheading.

posted by crossswords (2 comments total)

This is great. They’re a wonderful writer, and that second piece in particular makes me both nostalgic for my misspent youth and relieved I’m no longer in the “try anything once” phase of intoxicants experimentation (I say, having entered the period of life where I’ve spent all day nursing a hangover from exactly one martini last night).
posted by thivaia at 1:55 PM on March 5, 2023

These are both lovely. Thank you!
posted by away for regrooving at 10:34 PM on March 5, 2023