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Journal for non-binary & gender diverse creatives 🌈 Founding editor: @raewhite.bsky.social 🌈 Fiction editor: @alisonevans.bsky.social 🌈
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The quarterly online journal is managed by poet, writer and #EnbyLife alumni Ori Diskett (he/she), who also serves as the inaugural issue’s editor.

‘We’re publishing the subversive, the maligned, the ignored, the too-complicated; works that are ugly in their prettiness or pretty in their ugliness.’
October 18, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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Our friends at transitive rag have just released their first issue! trans rag publishes poetry, personal writing, art and digital projects from transgender and gender-diverse artists.

Read more at enbylife.net and check out Issue 1 of trans rag, available for free at www.trans-rag.com
Painting of a bright yellow and orange sun with dark purple mountains in the foreground. White text over the top reads, ‘transitive rag. Trans writing and art. Issue #1 out now! www.trans-rag.com’
October 18, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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We’re nominating for awards this year, including the Monarch Queer Literary Awards! (For creative work we published between July 2024 and June 2025.)

Shout out to our amazing creatives and wishing you all the best!
Social media tile featuring the purple and pink butterfly logo for the Monarch Queer Literary Awards, on a purple background. Black bold text reads, ‘Monarch Queer Literary Awards. #EnbyLife Journal nominations 2025’ followed by names on a torn out piece of paper background. This text reads, ‘Ori Diskett, Finnley Greet, Bramwell Griffiths, Jules Kennedy, Lily Lalios, Lindsay Loughin, Welton B. Marsland, Lane Michael Stanley, Finn Stirling, Julia Sullivan, Quinn Wang.’
September 30, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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‘Before college, “that” gender crisis lay forgotten
as I deliberately mislabelled it and isolated it.
Inside my suitcase, I would hide my gender —
it shrivelled up and suffocated.’

Read more of Maha’s poem 'My Gender Sat in Your Class' at enbylife.net
Photo of a darkened classroom with chairs and a whiteboard. A window with open blinds creates some light in the room. Black text on a transparent light yellow/beige background reads, ‘Before college, "that" gender crisis lay forgotten / as I deliberately mislabelled it and isolated it. / Inside my suitcase, I would hide my gender — / it shrivelled up and suffocated. 'My Gender Sat in Your Class' by Maha.’
September 29, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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‘We went by the street of my childhood home
where I used to sit in the backyard and my mum
would make me flower crowns —
bracelets and necklaces of white clover blossoms’

Read more of Jack Cariad Leon’s stunning poem 'Why I Was Really Crying' at enbylife.net
A notebook page featuring a collage of various flowers, including a polaroid, stickers, and coloured sketches. Black text on a beige background reads, ‘We went by the street of my childhood home / where I used to sit in the backyard and my mum / would make me flower crowns — / bracelets and necklaces of white clover blossoms. 'Why I Was Really Crying' by Jack Cariad Leon’
September 22, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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We’re nominating for awards this year, including the Genrepunk Awards! (For creative work we published between August 2024 – July 2025.) @genrepunkmag.bsky.social

Shout out to our amazing creatives and wishing you all the best!
Social media tile featuring the logo for Genrepunk, on a pink background. Black bold text reads, ‘Genrepunk Awards. #EnbyLife Journal nominations 2025’ followed by names on a torn out piece of paper background. This text reads, ‘Genrepunk Editors’ Choice Award: E, Kaia Ball, Lilly Lu. Genrepunk Award for Disabled Creatives: Ori Diskett. Social media tile featuring the logo for Genrepunk, on a pink background. Black bold text reads, ‘Genrepunk Awards. #EnbyLife Journal nominations 2025’ followed by names on a torn out piece of paper background. This text reads, ‘Genrepunk Wildcard Award: Ori Diskett. Genrepunk Haunting Award: Zoe Korte, Lily Lalios, Matthan Slith.
September 17, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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We’re nominating for awards this year, including Best of the Net! (For creative works we published between July 1, 2024 and June 30, 2025). @sundresspub.bsky.social

Shout out to our amazing creatives and wishing you all the best! 🎉🌈
Social media tile featuring the logo for Best of the Net, on a light yellow-orange background. Black bold text reads, ‘Best of the Net. #EnbyLife Journal nominations 2025’, followed by names on a torn out piece of paper background. The names listed are: Oladosu Michael Emerald, Finnley Greet, Jules Kennedy, Lily Lalios, Anna Riley-Shepard, Elinor Serumgard, Matthan Slith, Lane Michael Stanley, Finn Stirling, Julia Sullivan, Sean West.
September 16, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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David Cox is a neurodivergent poet, photographer, and educator living on Whadjuk Noongar Country. They are a spoken word poet who has performed on stages in Australia and the USA, and has been a WA finalist in the Australian Poetry Slam three times.
Photo of a blue and orange tent sitting on grass among lots of tall trees, with a lens flare creating yellow spots on a diagonal. Black text on a transparent brown background reads, “David Cox is a neurodivergent poet, photographer, and educator living on Whadjuk Noongar Country. They are a spoken word poet who has performed on stages in Australia and the USA, and has been a WA finalist in the Australian Poetry Slam three times. His passion is teaching people how the Australian political system works and hopes to one day finish the dozens of novel ideas in his head.”
September 9, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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This week’s new #EnbyLife post is David Cox’s limitless, gender-messy poem ‘My Gender is a Campsite on an Infinite Plane’.

Read more at enbylife.net
Photo of a blue and orange tent sitting on grass among lots of tall trees, with a lens flare creating yellow spots on a diagonal. Black text on a transparent brown background reads, “’My Gender is a Campsite on an Infinite Plane’ by David Cox.” Photo of a blue, pink and orange sky with horizontal clouds. Black text on a transparent white background reads, “My gender is every colour of the sky / In that there is blue involved / But also so much more / My gender is like art / In the same way that you can’t define art / 'My Gender is a Campsite on an Infinite Plane’ by David Cox.”
September 9, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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Today’s fresh offering of poetry is Taylor Kovach’s brilliant piece ‘Exposure’.

Read more at enbylife.net or head to the link in our bio.
Social media tile, featuring the image of a glitchy television screen with colourful haphazard lines in pink, purple, and green. Black text on a light green transparent background reads, :”DVR phantom limb matinee viewing in HD / Channel-chased with downcast glasses of reality. 'Exposure' by Taylor Kovach.”
September 2, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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Today we’re excited to share a new poem with you — 'A Week After I Tell You I’m Questioning My Gender' by Abby Bland. READ MORE: enbylife.net/2025/08/26/a...
Social media post featuring a photo of green and pink fireworks in the dark night sky. Black text on a light green transparent background reads, “For a long time / the thing I wanted most / was to be beautiful / but now I wish / to become myself. 'A Week After I Tell You I’m Questioning My Gender' by Abby Bland.”
August 26, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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This week’s poem is ‘The Body of the Patient’ by Rose Power: enbylife.net/2025/08/05/t...

This poem responds to to torrin a. greathouse’s ‘The Body of a Girl Lies on the Asphalt Like the Body of a Girl’, and addresses the relinquishment of one’s bodily autonomy when placed under anaesthetic.
Image of a hospital bed and IV sitting atop a grassy green mountain with a cloudy grey sky. Black text on a light grey background reads: “The body of the patient lies on the table like the body of a man: without / modesty or decorum. No bra need be discarded before / the MRI machine whirs and whirs and whirs. The whir / is not novel – it is always there. The hum / of the hearse engine, the flatlining of a heart rate monitor. 'The Body of the Patient' by Rose Power.”
August 5, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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This week we’ve published Kaia Ball’s brilliant poem ‘Encounter with the Feminine Products Bin in the Work Bathroom’.

Read more: enbylife.net/2025/07/28/e...

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Photo of a public bathroom with beige and white colours and dim lighting, including several mirrors, sinks and handwash dispensers. Black text on a light brown transparent background reads, “Deposit your relics of Venus in this receptacle / Explains the simple diagram / And I realize that I arrived / Not for the first time / At the wrong altar. 'Encounter with the Feminine Products Bin in the Work Bathroom' by Kaia Ball.”
July 28, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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💛🤍💜🖤 Happy International Non-Binary Day! 💛🤍💜🖤

Today we’re excited to publish a brand new poem — ‘Halloween’ by E Saint Paul @thewritere.bsky.social.

Read more at enbylife.net/2025/07/14/h...
A close-up Photo of a pile of colourful Dum Dums lollipops, each wrapped in bright, patterned wrappers. The lollipops are packed closely together, with white sticks protruding in different directions. Black text on a transparent purple background reads, ‘I’m drunk / on a stained / couch--sucking / a Dum-Dum / when you ask / who I am. 'Halloween' by E Saint Paul.’
July 14, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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This week we’re proud to publish the 'Weathering Life' series by Sholanke Boluwatife Emmanuel.

Check out the artworks at: enbylife.net/2025/07/07/w...
A social media collage of four watercolour portraits by artist Sholanke Boluwatife Emmanuel, titled 'Weathering Life'. Each portrait features a different Black subject painted in watercolour hues of purple, pink, green and blue. A transparent brown banner across the centre of the image reads: 'Weathering Life' by Sholanke Boluwatife Emmanuel.
July 7, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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We have new poetry on #EnbyLife Journal! Read Lilly Lu’s vivid piece ‘O to be gaysian!’

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💖 READ MORE: enbylife.net/2025/07/04/o...
Social media tile with an abstract artwork featuring vibrant, textured brushstrokes in neon pinks, oranges, blues, yellows, and purples. Overlaid on the left side is a pale pink text box with the following poem excerpt: ‘arms wound / around the / wondrous sounds / of tata tatata / 他她X也.’ Below the poem, in bold black text: 'O to be gaysian!' by Lilly Lu.
July 4, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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Jules Kennedy’s bold, dazzling artwork ‘Bon Holiday’ is now up on #EnbyLife Journal!

Check it out at: enbylife.net/2025/06/30/b...

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Social media tile with a purple background, and black text on a light green background that reads: ‘Bon Holiday’ by Jules Kennedy. The featured artwork in the post is a vibrant, psychedelic digital artwork featuring a figure with brown skin and red wings. They have star-studded shoulder-length hair, and are wearing a leopard print crop top and pants, with star-patterned pink tights. Behind them is a large, stylised face outlined in neon lines. To their left is a large, roaring tiger with colourful stripes and a glowing blue heart in their mouth. The tiger holds an upside-down framed image of two heads - one with blue hair and the other with short purple hair. The background is filled with rainbow stripes, sparkles, and hearts.
June 30, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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This week at #EnbyLife Journal we’re excited to publish Zoe Korte’s poem 'Of the chameleon’s dish’. @mostlymosspoetry.bsky.social

Read more at: enbylife.net/2025/06/10/o...
Close up photo of a giraffe’s brown and white coat. Black text on a light brown background reads, ‘When he shyly asked me to read his short / story about a giraffe giving birth, / I wanted to be his giraffe. Does that / answer your question of kiss, marry, kill? 'Of the chameleon’s dish' by Zoe Korte.’
June 10, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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This week’s poem is 'Too Much Is Just Enough' by Oladosu Michael Emerald!

‘I’m the & between every identity
they try to split apart.
I’m the Venn diagram that refuses to collapse.’

Read more at enbylife.net/2025/06/02/t...
Photo of vibrant swirls of blue, red, and orange ink mixing in water against a dark background, creating an abstract and dynamic visual effect with flowing, cloud-like patterns. Black text on a light blue background reads, ‘I’m the & between every identity / they try to split apart. / I’m the Venn diagram that refuses to collapse. 'Too Much Is Just Enough' by Oladosu Michael Emerald.’
June 2, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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This week we’re excited to publish Finnley Greet’s vibrant artwork ‘Connection.’

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An art piece of a vibrant, abstract digital illustration of a beetle on a dark background. The beetle has bold, iridescent colours like magenta, teal, orange, and purple. Surrounding the beetle is a geometric pattern of interconnected lines forming a star-like shape. At each point of the star is a transparent insect wings, drawn with neon outlines. Black text on a light purple background reads ‘'Connection' by Finnley Greet’.
May 26, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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Today’s new piece is '(a horny poem) in which Bananarama defend me in court' by Welton B. Marsland! @wbmarsland.bsky.social

Read more: enbylife.net/2025/05/20/a...
A vintage red and cream-coloured transistor radio sits on a windowsill in front of a white lace curtain with a floral and bow pattern. Black text on a light brown background reads ‘Came into the day hard, / filling myself up with someone else's bones / with panic on the radio / and a shy boy pressing down on my thoughts / from the inside. '(a horny poem) in which Bananarama defend me in court' by Welton B. Marsland.’
May 20, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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Today we’re thrilled to publish the piece ‘Cicada’ by Lily Lalios: enbylife.net/2025/05/06/c...

‘I feel it coming on for days beforehand, waking in the sluggish rot. Sap-suckled and reeling with inevitability, I moan and roll forth from my apathetic decade.’
Photo of a cicada shell attached to the leaf of a tree. Black text on a transparent yellow background reads ‘I feel it coming on for days beforehand, waking in the sluggish rot. Sap-suckled and reeling with inevitability, I moan and roll forth from my apathetic decade. Cicada by Lily Lalios.’
May 6, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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Today’s new poem is ‘backscattering' by Elinor Serumgard!

Read more of this beautiful piece at: enbylife.net/2025/04/14/b...
Social media tile featuring a close up photo of blue hydrangea flowers. Black text on a light blue background reads, ‘I look myself in the mirror and fall in love / (again) / and then (other times) / I look myself in the mirror / and I don’t know how we’re the same / person. 'backscattering' by Elinor Serumgard.’
April 13, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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Today’s new poem is ‘backscattering' by Elinor Serumgard!

Read more of this beautiful piece at: enbylife.net/2025/04/14/b...
Social media tile featuring a close up photo of blue hydrangea flowers. Black text on a light blue background reads, ‘I look myself in the mirror and fall in love / (again) / and then (other times) / I look myself in the mirror / and I don’t know how we’re the same / person. 'backscattering' by Elinor Serumgard.’
April 13, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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Today we’re thrilled to publish the poem 'Guttercandy' by Ori Diskett!

Read more: enbylife.net/2025/04/07/g...

'Guttercandy' is an ekphrastic poem, responding to the song 'What am I gonna do with you' from Rebecca Black's 2023 album Let Her Burn.
Social media tile of a beige brick building at night at a low view angle, with a vertical cluster of green ferns growing along a white PVC pipe attached to the wall. The building has a large window with a reflective surface, and various pipes run along the exterior. Black text on a light grey background reads, ‘Good God, / What are They going to do with me? / Landed in Their lap / like a kitten in a storm. 'Guttercandy' by Ori Diskett.’
April 7, 2025 at 12:56 AM