QUEER TATT00 HISTORY

it's always absurd to me they could sell us any world where tattoo and body modification isn't inherently queer. "sailors and sex workers"... sideshow freaks, the sacred among ancients, marking passage, outsiders driven into the fringe and living well in forgotten secret spaces. a transcendance and transness of the body transformed. perverse fascinations, energetic tokens, desperate proud sentimentalism in the face of a cold world. of course we're there and now we're here, haunted by the amnesia of stolen generations still we will find our way back to ourselves. the nice thing about that is we don't have to invent so much as we think we do