The ring of fire anthology / by ET Russian.

  • Russian, E.T.
Date:
2014
  • Books

About this work

Description

The Ring of Fire Anthology is a collection of the zine from the late 1990s by ET Russian (aka Hellery Homosex), and features new material never before published. Ring of Fire is honest, engaging, and ahead of its time. Through black and white ink drawings, comics, linoleum block print portraits, essays, interviews and erotica, this collection explores the intersections of art, bodies, healthcare, ability, gender, race, community, class, healing and the politics of work. Alternately emotional and erotic, funny and political, Ring of Fire tells the author's personal story, and captures the work and words of various artists and leaders from disability culture and history. A young activist steeped in the cultures of queer and punk, Russian embraced a cultural identity of disability while writing Ring of Fire. Years later, Russian examines what it means to work in healthcare in the United States.

Publication/Creation

Seattle, WA : Left Bank Books, 2014.

Physical description

237 pages : black and white illustrations ; 26 cm

Edition

First Left Bank Books edition.

Notes

"Originally published as Ring of Fire #2-3"--title page verso.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (page 233).

Exhibitions note

Handling and digital copies: Exhibited in "Zines Forever! DIY Publications and Disability Justice" at Wellcome Collection, 14 March - 14 September 2025.
Exhibition caption for Zines Forever! DIY Publications and Disability Justice at Wellcome Collection: "US-based artist E.T. Russian created Ring of Fire between 1996 and 1999 after acquiring a disability in an accident as a young adult. Through writing, images, poetry and erotica, the zine explores a range of topics from E.T.’s life during this period across disability, politics, gender and sexuality. In 2014, E.T. published an anthology version of Ring of Fire, adding their reflections on the original zines, along with essays and interviews with other Disability Justice activists and artists. Looking back, E.T. writes: "When I first wrote Ring of Fire I was working out so much about my disability, my sexuality and gender … Really, I think that I was trying to explain it to myself and it just happened to be helpful to other people who were also new to disability as a concept."

Type/Technique

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Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    NV.RQV
    Open shelves

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Identifiers

ISBN

  • 093930600X
  • 9780939306008