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Topic: Tattoos

Tattoo artist designing motifs (Getty Images/Westend61)

The tattoo stigma exists, study finds

Nicole Karlis
Doctors and nurses taking care of patients in ICU at hospital during COVID-19 (Getty Images)

Etching the pain of COVID onto survivors

Heidi De Marco - KFF Health News
Illustration of two Picts, supposedly covered in body paint or tattoos, circa 300 BC (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

The history of tattoos and colonialism

Allison Hawn - The Conversation
A still from "Grace" (Rachel Pikelny, director)

"Grace": A survivor's mastectomy tattoo

Tom Roston
St. Petersburg tattoo artist Evil Don at work (Tyler Gillespie)

An artist, not a babysitter

Tyler Gillespie - Salon Young Americans
(Getty/Justin Sullivan)

"Nevertheless, she persisted"

Rachel Leah

Ink for the ages

Alli Joseph
(Getty/jeffbergen)

Matthew Rozsa
Bill O'Reilly (Credit: Fox News)

Katie Levingston
(<a href='https://secure.istockphoto.com/profile/peopleimages'>PeopleImages</a> via <a href='http://www.istockphoto.com/'>iStock</a>)

This is why women get inked

Beverly Yuen Thompson
(<a href='http://www.istockphoto.com/portfolio/webphotographeer#36659cb'>webphotographeer</a> via <a href='http://www.istockphoto.com/'>iStock</a>)

Sponsor this skin

Scott Timberg
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-516343p1.html'>ZouZou</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Jenny Kutner
(AP/Ron Edmonds)

Jenny Kutner
Amanda Palmer (Kambriel)

Amanda Palmer, Outrage Poet

Erin Keane
Sad dog (<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-540553p1.html'>Funny Solution Studio</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Pet tattooing banned in NY

Joanna Rothkopf

Aliza Worthington - The Broad Side
(AP)

Associated Press
Photos by Per Liljas

Matthew Wolfe - Narratively
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