“I was industrious /Obedient/I said ‘the bush’/The way you did”

“Collage, like poetry, is a way to collapse time and space. Collage can be a portal, an altar, a way to visualize and make possible the impossible. A way to create new realities.”

“In those early and mostly uneventful trips to the OBGYN, listening to my baby’s heartbeat was a wilderness.”

“BLUE: Nostalgia as neither past nor present tense but the second person.”

haibun / time / nonlinear / love

“The following piece records and explores the experiences of black women I interviewed in 2022, my own experiences as a black woman, and the thoughts and research that arose throughout the project. The women quoted here have never met.”

“We mirror each other like pages of a book.”

The Hive welcomes the amazing Tiffany Babb back!

The legendary Vi Khi Nao’s “Patriarchy” leads us into our 4th issue. What does feminism in the year 2040 mean?

No one does a caesura quite like Monica Rico.

there are different ways to say my name: scar tissue starling, custard apple blemished in summer heat.

We proudly present a gorgeous set of haiku comics.

I didn’t know anyone else could see me / The waters so cloudy and my sinking so deep.

One comic by Caoimhe Harlock.

Two hybrid pieces by Sara Elkamel.

I dust my hands and shoes with ash for comfort and protection

A comic by Tiffany Babb.

I hate the sound of Judy Jetson singing melodically in an elevator. I once cursed on the elevator in a parking structure on the Fourth of July, said they were scary as fuck, and my mother banished me from her sight long enough to find femininity in a neon garden.

A comic by Caroline Dinh.