Welcome To Our Hell

Co-authored zine by: Aster K. Foley (xe/they) and Lex Rivers (she/her)

In this choose your own cancer adventure zine, Lex and Aster open up about their experiences facing incurable cancer diagnoses during the COVID-19 pandemic.  2022

Transpire: Transgender Cancer Patient Anthology

Co-edited by Charlie Manzano (he/him) and Roman Ruddick (they/them), illustrated by Van Binfa (they/them)

A compilation of art and writing by trans cancer patients, including those with brain cancer, breast cancer, colorectal cancer, ewing sarcoma, hodgkins lymphoma, ovarian cancer, testicular cancer, and uterine cancer. 2019

Find more on Instagram @deadpennypress and @easternfolly

Aster passed away on November 24th, 2022. They were an artist based out of Sacramento California, and worked a lot in printmaking in particular as well as making zines. You can read their zines here and/or buy them under the "shop" tab. 

Before It Gets Better

"Before It Gets Better" is a zine about going through cancer treatment during the COVID-19 pandemic. It was designed, written, illustrated, and lived by Aster K. Foley. The zine also contains artwork by Rae Billeci, Ziv Lieberman, Julia Edith Rigby, and Noah Oak Schuster. 2021

Fair Weather

Watching the people you know disappear over the course of your illness is a hell of a thing.

“Fair Weather: A Zine About Losing & Being Lost” is a 22-page digital zine. 

Imagery appropriated from the following board games:

Scrabble, Mysterium, Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective, Betrayal at House on the Hill, Tokaido, Forbidden Island, Cards Against Humanity 2022

Find more on Instagram @t4t_c4c and radicallydisfigured.com 

Melahomos 

A comic about a new friendship with a fellow disfigured trans facial melanoma patient. 2021

How to Talk to Me

A guide for talking to the cancer patient in your life.  2018

The Real

A poetry/collage piece on having a cancer related facial disfigurement.  2019

It Was Never About Climbing Mountains

A poem about cancer patient expectations.  2019

Whose GYN is it anyway? 

Why we should degender our healthcare system. 2022

What is cancer Culture?

what cancer culture means and how it affects us!  2022

Fill In The Blank

A mini zine about the micro-aggressions one faces as a cancer patient and as a trans person, and as both.  2018

Cancer Has No Gender

A mini zine about being trans and going with my partner to get a breast exam.  2018

Find more on Instagram @_salty.lex, on Deviant Art @Salty-Lex, and at radicallydisfigured.com 

Lex passed away on October 13th, 2022. Lex was a very passionate oncology nurse, ex-moonie activist, poet, and zinester from Oakland California. You can find her zines here in the library, buy her zines in the "Shop" tab, and read her article posted in the LA Times here.

cancerous me 

"Cancerous me" shares commentary and poetry related to Lex's experiences as a young adult cancer patient. 2022

ugly

"Ugly" is another zine in Lex's cancer poetry series. 2022

Find more on Instagram @times_knew_roman

Now What

A story and collage about being a young ovarian cancer patient. 2018