#tattooing

#tattooing

Tattoos and fermentation rarely appear in the same conversation, yet across the world, they share a quiet kinship. Both are practices of transformation, crafts that reshape raw material over time through care and relationships to the land, the spiritual, and the community. Tattooing inscribes identity and ancestry onto skin, while fermentation preserves, nourishes, and binds communities through shared taste and ritual. Both create change, brewing something more than themselves through embodied knowledge passed between generations.

"We just had a thing of, OK, I'll learn how to do it and hopefully one day we can tattoo each other', just as a sign of our friendship."

Tattooing may provide a unique avenue to enhance body positivity and autonomy among transgender and gender-expansive individuals recovering from eating disorders.

As the beauty trend takes off, it raises questions about societal beauty norms and the lengths individuals go to in order to meet them.