Stonewall Was a Riot. Let Your Bodily Autonomy and Personal Art Be One Too.

Happy Pride Month! Let’s talk Pride, identity, and taking back your body. It was never theirs. And will always be yours.

Stonewall wasn't a celebration. It was trans women and drag queens throwing bottles at cops who had been raiding, brutalizing, and arresting them for existing. Pride was born in rage. Don't let anyone sand that down into a float and a corporate logo.

Queer joy is protest. Show up loudly, love openly, and take up space in a world that is actively trying to shrink you, that is resistance.

I'm a tattoo artist in Colorado. I'm also a person who is watching my government systematically strip the right to bodily autonomy from people I love, people I tattoo, and people I've never met but whose humanity is not up for debate. Executive orders targeting trans healthcare. Legislation designed to make trans kids disappear quietly. Book bans. Bathroom bans. "Parental rights" used as a weapon against children whose parents are the threat.

This is not a both-sides situation. This is one side trying to erase people, and the other side existing anyway.

Your body has always been political. They made it that way. The question is what you do with that.

Getting tattooed is not a revolution. But it is a declaration.

When you sit in my chair and put something permanent on your skin, something you chose, something that is yours, you are doing something they are actively trying to prevent. They are legislating bodies. They are criminalizing care. They are making it harder and harder for trans and queer people to exist in public, access healthcare, and make decisions about themselves.

Tattooing isn't a substitute for fighting that. But it is a refusal to disappear while we do.

For a lot of queer and trans clients, that's not a metaphor. That's the whole point. Cover the scars. Mark the transition. Claim the body that was supposed to belong to everyone else's comfort. Put something beautiful and defiant on skin that has survived things it shouldn't have had to.

I will never ask you to justify it. I will never make you explain your identity, your history, or your politics. You show up. I show up. We make something that's yours forever.don't let anyone tell you that queer joy isn't also protest. Showing up loudly, loving openly, and taking up space in a world that is actively trying to shrink you, that is resistance.

🌸 Blooming Transformations is permanent flash

It started as a limited pride series. It's not limited anymore. Butterfly and botanical flash in pride flag colorways. $175 flat rate. $88 per tattoo goes directly to Trans Lifeline, every time, all year.

Because trans people don't stop existing in July and neither does my commitment to putting money behind that.

Don't perform your survival for anyone.

You don't owe anyone a palatable version of your anger or your identity. You don't have to be the kind of queer that makes straight people comfortable. You don't have to shrink.

Stonewall happened because people stopped shrinking.

This is a tattoo studio. It's also a space that will never ask you to be smaller than you are.

Come as you are. Leave with something that says so permanently.