Dear Family, Friends, Community, Collaborators and Joyous Mother Lovers

GoFundMe update

I am so overwhelmed with gratitude!!! We have reached this GoFundMe goal and I feel held, lifted, and carried by community. I love you all so much.

Thank you doesn’t feel big enough for what you have given. Your generosity, your messages, your sharing all of it has wrapped around me in ways that words can’t fully capture. This support is more than financial, it is care, it is love, it is solidarity in action. It has given me space to breathe, to focus on what matters and to feel held through this time.

To every single person who contributed, shared, checked in, or simply held me in your thoughts - I see you, I feel you, and I carry that with me.

From the deepest place in my heart, thank you.

With love and immense gratitude

BustyxxxKim 'Busty Beatz' Bowers – Memorial Fundraiser

As I write this request, on stolen land, I send my love and respect to the Custodians of the land, sea and skies. I write knowing that I will pass over on these lands as a queer black woman, visitor, sister, mother and artist.

Dear Family, Friends, Community, Collaborators and Joyous Mother Lovers

As many of you now know, the cancer has come back with a vengeance, and I am in the final stages of my life. I deeply appreciate the support, the love, the care, the rage, the laughs and the connections we have shared across the world throughout my lifetime. Thank you for the love sent - I feel it in every part of my being. So many memories have flowed through me in vibrant technicolour, and I look forward to visiting your dreams wearing a leopard-print catsuit and giant titties forever (cue evil laugh #SusuSmash #TooSoon.)

In an act of self-love and powerful body autonomy, I have decided to forgo any more treatment and live in the sunshine, with a belly full of real food rather than windowless hospital wards, nasty medications and liquid dinners.

As many of you have reached out, I am writing now to raise funds for the logistics that need to happen when death comes - to take the burden off my carers who would have scrambled to pull a campaign together at the last minute while grieving. I have outlined the costs (death is pretty pricey - who knew!) to include bodycare, a small memorial service in Brisbane and a gathering in Sydney, some support for close family who live interstate, with any extra funds for the care of my beautiful child.

As a last moment, I'm going to do what I have always done - make way for the matriarchy, stick it to the man, rock the boat and tear shit up. In life as in death, I am my ancestors' wildest dreams.

Thank you for your support, now and always.

Bustyxx

Brisbane Gathering: The Essentials Package - Bodycare/Memorial/Cremation

Sydney Gathering: Family Home

Interstate Family Travel/ Accommodation

Any extra funds will go towards the care of my child, including logistical care such as utilities, rent and grief support services.