HIVES is excited to announce that the third volume of the Buzz-Zine is now live and in circulation!. Volume III: “Trip To The Future: a zine on fiction, disability, and speculation” features the work of community activists, students, professors, and graduate students as they consider the spacetime of disability in speculative futures.
You can read the html version of the zine here via this link: Buzz-Zine Vol. III. On this page are links to other iterations of the zine, including a large print Google Document version, an alt-text labeled .pdf, and the request form for paper and braille versions.
This zine is the aftermath of HIVES’ year of programming focused on disability and speculation. As Scott Norman Rosenthal writes in the poem “Electroshock, Sovereignty,” “We are more than the ledgers/ of our naming./ Louder than the silence of our living.” We welcome you, dear reader, into a series of images, collages, and poems that open up space and time for bodymind variance. We invite you to make more, to make noise, to transform, and to engage in your own politics of mutation after you read. How will you keep the aperture to the beyond open a little longer?
This zine was made possible through an interdependent network of support, including but certainly not limited to friends, animal companions, hermit crabs, Michigan State University’s English Department, a Michigan State University Creating Inclusive Excellence Grant, and support from the Creativity in the Time of Covid 19 Grant.
The release of “Trip to the Future” aligns with the Creativity in the Time of COVID-19: Art as Medicine gallery exhibitions taking place in East Lansing, MI at (SCENE)Metrospace, 110 Charles St, East Lansing and LookOut Gallery in Snyder-Phillips Hall on the Second Floor, 362 Bogue Street East Lansing. For those of you who follow HIVES and are in the area, we encourage you to visit these galleries to appreciate some pandemic creative expressions between now and October 10 & 11. On the 10th and 11th of October HIVES will be participating in a reception at Snyder Phillips hall featuring artist talks, student and scholarly discussion, and activities such as mask embroidery and seated yoga.
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