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Adventures in the Land of Greasecars & Fireflies Zine 16 pages, 1/2 size, copied (1 oz) $1.00

Sascha Scatter's zine about his personal experience shopping for, converting, and thoughts surrounding switching to a greasecar (a car with a converted diesel engine that runs on used vegetable oil). The text mostly involves his stream of consciousness thoughts and what led him to the decision.

 
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El Otro Lado Zine 92 pages, 1/2 size, copied (5 oz) $3.50

Sascha Scatter provides us with an account of his trainhopping trip to Mexico and what he encounters there. This isn't just another tale of glamorizing train hopping as much as it's an account of Sascha learning about how things are different on "el otro lado" (the other side). Mexican citizens intending to cross the border refer to the US as "el otro lado" instead of simply as the US. He meets people, has some adventures, and learns about important cultural differences.

 
This is a pretty interesting zine, but the description should be clearer. The bulk of the material is not by Sasha Scatter, but by a friend of his. ... Barney Rubble
This is the first 'Zine I ever read and it's set the standard for me. Sascha is an amazing soul. He helped set up an online community for us crazy ... NG
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Mutant Powers & Lithium Pills zine 108 pages, 1/2 size, copied (6 oz) $4.00

A continuation in Sascha Scatter's tradition of telling stories about his experiences through mental health adventures. Sascha is the founder and heavily involved with the radical mental health organization, The Icarus Project, which has grown to be much larger than himself and his friends. These are his own tales of escapism into TV and the X-Men as a metaphor for people with powerful gifts, believing in ghosts, the comfort of hearing crazy stories, lucid dreaming, the varoius Icarus visioning meetings and processes, remembering his lowest times of feeling rejected by society for his lifestyle and pursuits, counseling and mentors, workaholism, medications, and much more exploring the dark recesses of the mind.

 
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Navigating the Space Between Brilliance & Madness #1 76 pages, full size, offset (9 oz) $9.00

A reader and road map of bipolar worlds. This is a product built from the many stories of the amazing members of The Icarus Project. Assembled beautifully with jagged pieces of a collective experience, the lessons and scars create an atlas of alternative maps to the particular breed of madness that gets called bipolar, and the ways people are making it through. Traveling through subconscious and waking worlds, from hospital waiting rooms to collective house kitchens, from the desert to the supermarket, these pages chart some of the underground tunnels beneath the mainstream medical model of treatment and the pathologizing language that alienates so many people. Some of these maps will help you to navigate through the existing architecture of the mental health establishment; some of them might help you figure out for yourself where you stand in relation to the larger ecosystem of the earth and the people who inhabit it. A new and exciting model to study mental health with.

 
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Walking the Edge of Insanity Zine 12 pages, 1/2 size, copied (1 oz) $1.00

A detailed account of Sascha Scatter growing up, realizing and understanding his mental illness and how to deal with it. He started out at home in a liberal household, went to college, got involved in serious quantities of activism, and then started to lose hold of his facilities culminating in a one night breakdown of roaming the streets and eventually learning how to harness himself and embracing his creative side.

 
Even if you're not bipolar, you can relate to the feeling that the world has gone mad around you. This zine inspires the bravery to value and trust ... Caro
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