Two fat white trans people in glasses & center-fold N95s. Birch (left) has a short curly brown undercut & brown eyes & is wearing a white shirt. Stevie (right) has a teal mullet, blue eyes, & tattoos on his arms & hands & is wearing a black shirt.

Sick Sad Trans Fags

is a zinemaking collaboration between Birch Rosen (they/them) and Stevie Springs (he/him). We're disabled fat autistic transsexual boyfriends who write, make art, and self-publish zines in so-called Seattle, WA.

All of our zines are listed here (below) and they can all be purchased on our ko-fi shop!

Half-size zines

A digital illustration of a phone showing a Grindr-like app, featuring mostly sexy pictures of kinky people. The search bar says, “Find trans people nearby.” The visible display names like “rawdogging covid,” “unmasked4masc" and “superspreader."

Covid Stole My Slut Era

16-page perzine about trying (and mostly failing) to have casual covid-safe(r) sex

A black and white image of a swirly abstract painting with text

Autistic Shorthand for Crips

8-page guide for easier communication between autists with limited energy

The cover features a selfie taken outdoors. Birch is fat and white with short, curly dark hair in an undercut. They’re wearing sunglasses, an N95, and a jacket, and standing in front of a body of water.

Screams of Grief #1

28-page crip diaries from the ongoing covid pandemic, March 2024 edition

Topless mirror selfie of a fat, white person with a curly dark undercut & top surgery scars inside a changing room wearing glasses, an N95, & a chain collar with a lock. Mirror instructions say wipe surfaces down after use & return clothing to racks.

Screams of Grief #2

24-page crip diaries from the ongoing covid pandemic, April 2024 edition

40 Years of Grief

44-page deeply personal collection of collage, poetry, and other writings on my lifelong relationship with grief

The cover is a collage of a body ascending towards the surface of a body of water, with a rocky formation below that and a collection of sea creatures with a hand filled with pills and a couple skulls.

Disabled Artist Affirmations

36-page collection of anti-capitalist affirmations and media recommendations for disabled artists

The cover is a collage with a background of dried flowers, then a pink heart, then a dark-skinned hand holding a spoon, as if writing, in a notebook.

Top Surgery Guidebook

40-page guide for every aspect of the top surgery process, including augmentations, mastectomies, & reductions

Purple font on white background with a black and white image of fresh top surgery scars and nipples on a flat, white chest.

Man-Hating Bisexual

56-page coming-of-age story told through romantic and sexual encounters with (mostly) guys

The cover is the bi pride colors, pink, purple, and blue, dripping as if melting. The title, Man-Hating Bisexual, with an asterisk on man-hating, is in a drippy font, as is Birch’s name. A subtitle in a plainer font says, “coming of age stories.”

The Joy of the Bible

12-page collection of perverted blasphemous collages & poetry using an illustrated children’s bible & the joy of sex

Colorful collage of a child in bed holding hands with Jesus, with onlookers & a black & white drawing of a person performing oral sex on a person with breasts. Text reads: “Good girls, big boys, & many pretty colors. Read the story. Go home happy.”

Boobless

32-page perzine about preparing for & recovering from top surgery

The cover is an illustration of an upside-down calculator, displaying the number 55378008, which looks like “boobless” in the calculator characters. A subtitle says, “a top surgery zine”

Transitioning & Attractiveness

28-page perzine about the fear of losing attractiveness during the early days of medical transition

The cover design is simple typography: a large T, & sign, and A, stacked vertically on the left edge.

Quarter-size zines

Simple cover with black and white text

HIV and COVID

8 page high-level summary of the parallels between HIV and COVID

The cover is black and white text with a line drawing of dripping goo at the bottom

Our Favorite Goos

16 page guide to our favorite topical ointments, creams, gels, & salves

Sick Sad Boy

24 pages of poetry about disability, grief, trauma, & love

White paper with a drawing of a black TV showing a green spiral with “sick, sad boy” in dripping red font and a blue eyeball in the center of the spiral.

Minizines

Simple black and white cover with a drawing of a light switch in the "on" position

Bottom surgery

8-page summary of basic info about phalloplasty and metoidioplasty and the options for each

Write Your Own Crip Credo

8-page guide to creating a list of personal reminders that you deserve more/better/ everything

Black and white image of a wheelchair and pills and black text

Trans Restroom Rants #2

32-page collection of illustrated reviews of restrooms from the angle of how easy, safe, and comfortable they feel to me as a nonbinary transsexual

Trans pride flag with vertical stripes and handwritten text. The words “trans” and “rants” are spaced so that one letter falls on each stripe. The issue number and date range for the reviews are written on the bottom right.

Trans Restroom Rants #3

32-page collection of illustrated reviews of restrooms from the angle of how easy, safe, and comfortable they feel to me as a nonbinary transsexual

Trans pride flag with vertical stripes and handwritten text. The words “trans” and “rants” are spaced so that one letter falls on each stripe. The issue number and date range for the reviews are written on the bottom right.