Mozzie's Top Surgery Fund

Dear community, my dear friend Mozzie is trying to access top surgery! I have created this fundraiser so Mozzie’s loved ones, friends and the broader community can contribute to the cost.

I know Mozzie as an endlessly generous member of the queer and activist community in Muloobinba. I first met Mozzie at Food not Bombs where we cooked and shared free meals with our local community and worked together on multiple mutual aid projects. I would see them engrossed in conversation, across the benches of Pachamama courtyard, cutting carrots, laughing and intrigued by every new face that would come into the space. Mozzie quickly came to make regular appearances in my life. I would watch them sharing a cigarette amongst five friends at a queer night ,plotting the design of a banner with other eager hands or twisting wire into swirling webs in the corner as a huge pot of vegetable stew boiled. I write this now, sitting on Mozzie’s back deck as I have done each day for the last few weeks- I have no house and my car has broken down. However, like many of my friends, I have been able to find safety in the space Mozzie holds and their deep devotion to community as our survival and joy.

On this continent, we live under a government that will not recognise gender affirming surgeries as the vital and necessary care much of our community knows them to be. Because of this

gender affirming surgeries, including top (chest) surgery, are costly and inaccessible procedures. I have watched many friends jump through the bureaucratic hoops to access the gender-affirming care they need. Time and time again, I have seen friends battle with financial barriers to adequate gender-affirming care. Often, the means to access these surgeries is not provided by the state, medicare or the medical system. It is the deep desire of our queer community for collective liberation and our investment in one another as inherently valuable and deserving that

has provided the means to access surgeries such as this. Our community holds so much strength in how we use mutual aid to facilitate not only our survival but also our joy in the face of a hostile system. I urge all who can to please chip in what they can spare to support our friend and queer joy.

With love and solidarity,

Elena