Ink Medicine

Ali is the creator of the Instagram community @jews.withtattoosAfter starting the page she quickly gained a following, and as people started requesting guidance on finding Jewish tattoo artists, she created a spreadsheet to help artists and clients connect. You can find that spreadsheet linked to the above mentioned Instagram page, Jews With Tattoos (https://www.instagram.com/jews.

One of the perks of being a tattoo artist is the freedom of movement one can take advantage of. There are shops everywhere these days. Conceivably, that means that as a tattooist you can go anywhere and temporarily live and work there. I've known of people who didn't live in any one place but just continuously went from guest spot to guest spot for years. Besides the pleasure of tr

How do I go and tattoo when I feel meh? Because I, and many of us, maybe all of us feel "meh" a lot in the face of responsibility. You can love your job very much, have it be the perfect fit for you and still feel like doing nothing when you wake up. So how do I get over the malaise and do it anyway? How do I output creatively when I feel empty? I will tell you. You can connect wit

I met Skeeter Barker at her queer community yoga classes in the Mission circa 2007 or 8, and fell in love with her immediately. A strong, heavily tattooed, older butch in loose fitting cargo shorts and tank, with sparkling eyes, glasses, a British accent, and a gentle yet firm style of teaching, she was unlike any other yoga teacher I'd met before. And being in her classes made me

Sit with me while I admit a deep dark little tattoo artist secret. I have feelings about it when my long term clients go to someone else. I don't know if this term has been used before, but I say Polytattery refers to clients getting work done by several tattoo artists in the same time period. It can be awkward for us both if you don't say anything ahead of time. Or if you come bac

White ink has been around as long as I have been tattooing, but I am getting way more questions about it in the last few years than ever before. In this episode I will answer all of the most frequently asked questions I get about white ink tattoos: how white ink works, why people may want to get them, other applications of white ink in tattoo art, including white outline tattoos, w

Ayden Love is a total Love.I met Ayden in my tattooing studio when a good friend of mine brought her to get tattooed by me. I put a matching set of tattoos on the two of them. One for "Daddy" and one for "babygirl". And if you know me, you know how happy that made me. I love ritual. I love relationships. I love overt power exchange. I love tattoos. I asked Ayden to come on the podc

This episode is equally meant for those who want to know the nitty gritty of tattoo healing and care and those who just like to hear me drone on in the background. Here I describe both, first, what I call the old school traditional way of caring for a fresh tattoo and second, the wet method. I get into the products I like to have my clients use, including a deep dive into what Aqua

This episode is the result of my recent excitement about a few tattoos I've put my whole soul into. I've been looking for my personal tattoo style for so long, and considering that maybe I never need to find a niche, that doing it all was my thing (not unlike Beyoncé), that I was a little astounded when I realized that doing "weird" detailed color work felt like the work was comin

I started this podcast to show off the absolute gems of humans I get to tattoo and interact with on a regular basis. I am a very very very lucky person. Karin is one of those people. I have been tattooing big gorgeous detailed artful realistic flowers on her for about two years. Our conversations range from the personal/political to the intimately personal, to food, to clothes, but