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So on May 9th of this past year, there was a Dallas Observer article entitled,

Nishaweseo alum creates tattoo artist internship for high schoolers.

And this article caused a massive uproar in the tattoo community, as things do.

As, yeah.

At times?

Yes.

Are you familiar with that?

I think I'm a little familiar with that

so that other voice that you hear is tim hendricks who's joined me to go on a journey through

the world of this article and what unfolded from it so i'm going to read through a couple

points of interest in it and then we can go from there.

Hey, hi. Before we start this segment with Tim Hendricks, hello, I'm Andrew Storitz.

So this article I mentioned, the uproar, it's all real, if you remember or if you don't.

It's based around tattooer, many lanai in Fetz from Dallas, Texas. A little background about her.

She went to an arts high school, was very inspired to become a real artist.

She went off to art college and then realized that maybe that wasn't for her after all.

So she returned home, ended up finding a tattoo apprenticeship. And as that progressed,

that also turned out to be a dead end in her life. It wasn't the type of environment she wanted to be in,

so she had to go it alone. She forged her own path, and she became a tattooer. And for the last

decade plus, she's been slinging ink in Dallas.

So fast forward to now, she came up with an idea to inspire the youth at an arts high school in Dallas.

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