With joy, excitement, and a healthy amount of anxiety, my little queer family has been bracing hard for Spring and Summer of 2025 - or as we’ve been calling it for the past year… “Surgery Season”.

Over the next few months, I personally have two major gender affirming surgeries coming up - a hysterectomy in April, and then top surgery in June. My best friend/housemate Bev, is also having top surgery in May! Our 3rd housemate, Tucker (my partner and Bev’s long time BFF), will be caretaking for the both of us between April and July. The surgeries will be costing me around $8,000. Needless to say this is extremely financially stressful for our family as we will also each be out of work for a lot of the next few months, healing, recovering, and caretaking for each other.

I have organized many fundraisers and mutual aid responses over my years as a tattooer. This is the first time I have organized one for myself. I’m generally not great at blatantly asking for help, so I have tried to make the “prizes and gifts” extra enticing and cool for y’all. Tucker and I have put an enormous amount of effort into this launch — We’ve set up a raffle for a Full Day Tarot Tattoo as well as lots of unique gifts for a variety of donation levels! If you can’t support us financially, sharing the fundraiser with your friends would be so appreciated!

Your support will help us make it through the next few months a little more comfortably! All profits will go toward helping our household pay the house’s mortgage, the tattoo shop’s rent, utilities, and food.

Thanks so much for reading, and thanks for any support you can give!

Lots of Love,
El-J

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