Tattoo Monologues: Indelible Marks on the Body and Soul

Body art can tell personal stories, restore well-being, and be a tool for processing traumatic life experiences. Tattoo Monologues features women from diverse cultures, ethnicities, and professional contexts who share their tattoo narratives and photos.

Format: Hardback
Length: 112 pages
Publication date: 19 October 2021
Publisher: She Writes Press

Body art has the power to convey personal narratives and can even contribute to the restoration of one's well-being, particularly when associated with challenging or traumatic life experiences. Donna Torrisi, a director of a community health center for twenty-seven years and a nurse practitioner for over forty years, became fascinated with the stories behind her patients' tattoos. When she began to ask her female patients about their markings, themes of trauma, pain, and loss emerged, highlighting the role that tattoos played in their healing and redemption. Tattoo Monologues showcases the vulnerability and courage of these women as they share their personal tattoo narratives and photographs of the images on their bodies. These women represent diverse cultures, ethnicities, and professional contexts, but they are united by their use of tattoos as a tool for processing traumatic life experiences. The images, stories, emotions, and journeys in this book collectively tell a compelling story, one that explores the intersection of skin and ink, trauma and adversity, and courage and resilience.

Weight: 1016g
Dimension: 288 x 339 x 13 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781647423117