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Posted on October 26, 2018 October 29, 2018

Tattoos, Pain, And Incurable Illness

Ace Ratcliff
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Ace Ratcliff
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Brain+Body
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bodies, chronic pain, chronic-illness, disability, tattoo
a skull set in front of a wall of tattoo flash

I wasn’t so focused on the painful bite of the needle anymore, or wondering when the session would end. I started to look forward to the distraction of the hurt. It was a hurt I could opt-into, one I could select. Read more

Posted on May 20, 2016 October 19, 2018

For Anyone Charged With Being ‘Overly-Emotional’, ‘The ‘Iliad’ Is Your Poem

The Establishment
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brain-body, greek, Growing Up, other, tattoo

The Iliad is angry in a way I can relate to, in a way that many young women can relate to. Achilles cries, Patrokles cries, Thetis cries. All of them furious, all of them game-changers, and their tears don’t make them weak. Read more

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