The Pink Hydra 1.2 - August 2024

Our second-ever issue contains twice as much poetry and wonder, with contributions that have so much to say about the strength and fragility of the human condition. Meet with angels and gods and strange intergalactic beasts, discover star-crossed lovers and revolutionaries, and experience dazzling worlds as visualized through so many different eyes and minds and hearts.

Upcoming Kazakh author Egor Breus, veteran poets Gerri Leen and Clif Mason, and female sci-fi flash-fic savants Hannah Greer, Pauline Barmby, and Jamie Lackey are just a few of the names we are proud to feature in this August issue.

South Africa does not celebrate Women’s Day on March 8 with the rest of the world. Instead, we commemorate the historic Women’s March of 1956 against the racist apartheid regime every year on the 9th of August, making this Women’s Month by extension. This year, The Pink Hydra wishes to send a message of solidarity to our sisters and siblings of the other marginalized genders around the world. In these pages, you will find transformative stories from writers living in places such as America, Canada, Australia, Mexico, and India – all countries subject to the ongoing effects of colonization, oppression, and blatant disregard of the most powerful woman of all – Mother Earth.

wathint’ abafazi, wathint’ imbokodo, uzo kufa! When you strike the women, you strike a rock, you will be crushed, you will die! —Lyrics of a song that leaders around the world would do well to heed, even (especially?) today.