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Continuing this long caption trend bc wine not I realized I should post my first tattoo before getting my second one this week
The struggle to find a tattoo artist in Alberta that I can
1) trust/has the skills to do a tattoo on dark skin and
2) is willing to do so has taken me years to find. BIG SHOUTOUT to @inkbyshae for being so educated on dark skin tattoos and for coming through for me, it turned out perfect and this pic doesn’t even do it justice (she’s also an awesome person so that’s an added bonus) there’s no excuse for a tattoo artist not to know how to tattoo on dark skin it’s just willful ignorance at this point. If this is you, please educate yourself on this topic.
S/o to badass women like @sharanguru @heleenatattoos @humblebeetattoo for continuously promoting and educating people on dark skin tattoos. They were major inspo for me ❤️
If you want to know what it means: The main part of my tattoo is the feminist symbol but feminism on its own is NOT what represents me. So, the tattoo incorporates the title of Langston Hughes’ poem “I, too” which speaks on having the right to belong to something regardless of race (also, the first poem that truly spoke to me in my undergrad). This, to me, in a nutshell is intersectional feminism and hopefully encourages any person to feel as though they belong to the feminist movement regardless of race or other intersections of their identity.
The flowers are part of the aesthetic LOL I’m sure, someday, they’ll have a profound meaning to me but that’s all for now folks.
Melanated Goddess Piece Tattoo ✊✊
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