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Bodies Without Limits: Tattooing With Tamara Santibañez

Latino USA

My Cultura, Futuro and iHeartPodcasts

News, Society & Culture, Politics, Documentary

4.83.8K Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2022

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Tattooing is a tool for creativity and self-expression, but it can also go way deeper than that. Tattoo artist, writer, and oral historian Tamara Santibañez believes it’s a way to reclaim your body and your history — on your own terms.

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The body is, I would argue, like a contested political territory and people experience

1:09.0

that differently.

1:10.0

Whether it's because of their gender, their race, their disability.

1:14.0

And so getting a tattoo for somebody who's experiencing discrimination because of their

1:19.3

body throughout their daily life is going to mean something really different to them than

1:23.5

for somebody who's not experiencing that daily discrimination or that daily oppression.

1:28.5

And I think that there's a really incredible power to interrupt those experiences.

1:33.8

You know, I think the touching can be a real intervention in that sense.

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From FuturoMedia, it's Latino USA.

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