The Malignant Ginger

I'm Jojogingerhead, a 31 year old artist & musician based in Brighton (UK) satirically documenting the highs and lows of my secondary triple negative breast cancer diagnosis. Trying to see the light in a dark and scary situation without using the words fight, battle, journey or survivor.

Brain freeze

  Thank you so much to my lovely amazing mummy who sent me a parcel to cheer me up. Yes, those are brain ice cube moulds, and no, they’re not for the bloody ice bucket […]

Aug, 28

Deformed ginger nausea nudibranch

I’ve been making drinks of grated ginger in hot water with honey and lemon and noticed a specimen of ginger today that looked like a nudibranch or sea slug. After posting the photo on Facebook, […]

Aug, 27

First attempt at making energy balls

I really like these Spirulina and Ginseng Bounce energy balls that you can buy from health food shops but they are mega expensive. Today I used all my energy making my own version of the […]

Aug, 27

Guess the food mush!

Can anyone guess what the above food mush is? The winner will win a Tupperware of a food mush of their choice. My mouth is so incredibly sore from the chemo that I have taken […]

Aug, 26

Fuck cancer shelf

I must have been bored today as I spent a few hours organising my fuck cancer shelf. I can’t believe how much paperwork and medication I have accumulated after only three months of tests and […]

Aug, 26

The ice cream (bucket) challenge

I am so sick of seeing the ‘jump on the band wagon’ phenomenon of the ice bucket challenge smeared all over my Facebook news feed. A lot of the posts I am seeing don’t even […]

Aug, 24

A step too far… pyjamas in public

This is actually happening. I’m one of those people that goes out in public wearing pyjamas.

Aug, 22

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