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Permanent Gestures

Primitive Whiteness in the (Queer) Tattoo Shop

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 September 2023

Meredith Lee
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Abstract

Primitive whiteness refers to the atavistic and colonial violence of the appropriation of tattooing in the United States. The radical deviance of the tattooist and their canvas, read through queer forms of pathologized identities, illuminates what happens when this primitive whiteness is indeed queer.

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TDR Brown Consortium Section
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TDR , Volume 67 , Issue 3 , September 2023 , pp. 32 - 46
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© The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press for Tisch School of the Arts/NYU

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