Many women use tattoos to indicate ownership of their bodies. Tattoos became a symbol of rebellion for women in the 1970s, amidst the fight for abortion and contraceptive rights. While tattoos apparently had a brief popularity amongst Victorian women, they have predominantly been a male arena since their introduction in Western culture into the 1700s….
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I’ve often heard that it is beneficial to be fat and get tattoos – more canvas space, you know. I know, when I got my first tattoo at the age of eighteen, I was both comforted and nervous about this fact. It is on my hip, one of my fleshiest body parts. I didn’t want…
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