Sora Choi by Hyea W. Kang, W Korea July’20
(via 16 Questions about One Historical Photo: Tattooed Lady Betty Broadbent | Flickr Blog)
photos of Betty that appeared on the Australian pictorial magazine, PIX on April 23rd 1938
I once stood in a queue behind a rather alternatively-dressed and pierced young woman who had the hazard warning symbols for Highly Flammable, Explosive, Toxic and Irritant tattooed very beautifully on her upper arm. Caution took precedence over curiosity and I did not introduce myself regarding our shared love of chemistry.
a warning for the ages
wanna see something that drives me up the walls insane
the creation..............of adam.............................
[ID: a black and white picture of a trans man. He is holding his shirt up, exposing his chest and hiding his face. Where his top surgery scars would be visible, there is a tattoo of the hands in the creation of Adam, where they nearly touch but dont.]
In 2005, when Hovak Johnston heard that the last Inuk woman tattooed in the traditional way had died, she set out to tattoo herself and learn how to tattoo others.
What was at first a personal quest became a project to bring the art of traditional tattooing back to Inuit women across Nunavut, starting in the community of Kugluktuk.
With the rise of missionaries and residential schools in the North, the tradition of tattooing was almost lost. Now, there are HUNDREDS of Inuit women with traditional tattoos.
( photo taken from Inuit Tattoo Revitalization Project page)
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