3 posts tagged “tattooing”
Join me at Woodland Pattern Books in Riverwest on Dec. 9th at 7pm.
I'll be giving a short presentation about tattooed ladies as part of their New Prose Series (check out their website for more info: http://www.woodlandpattern.org/)
The event is free and open to the public, and Woodland Pattern will have copies of the book to sell!
Woodland Pattern books is located at 720 E. Locust St. in Milwaukee.
Thanks again to the Waukegan, IL AAUW Chapter (that's the American Association of University Women for those of you not in the know) for inviting me to talk to their members on Saturday (Feb. 9th) about tattooed ladies!
Great audience, great questions, I had a wonderful time, as I always do, talking about tattooed ladies, but I think everyone in the audience enjoyed it as well.
A very nice woman came up to me afterwards and shared a great (and illuminating!) story with me- she was a retired registered nurse who had done her nursing training in the 1940s. She was assigned to give a women a sponge bath- the lady had just had gallbladder surgery. She was shocked to see that the woman was covered in tattoos, including two names on each of her butt cheeks with a question mark at the base of her spine! The tattoos were all older (the patient was in her 40s) and she had her husband Steve's name and her daughter Rosie's name tattooed on one of her arms, and all the woman's tattoos were coverable- private tattoos. Anyway, the woman I was talking to told her nursing supervisor about the patient's tattoos, and the supervisor immediately put the patient in isolation. because of the tattoos. She was evidently afraid of infection and disease, even though their was no threat. Just a reminder how little people knew about tattooing and disease.
Which also reminds me of this article a coworker passed on to me:
Tattoos, Body Piercing, and Nursing: A Photo Essay, by Jason P. Smith
AJN, American Journal of Nursing
April 2007- Vol. 107, no. 4, pg. 54-55.
A great article about health and safety in tattooing and body piercing, and two nurses who started their own tattoo and piercing studio.
I moved my site content over from my old website (http://homepage.mac.com/tattooedladyhistory), which is why there are posts previous to this welcome post, and they might look familiar.
I'm trying this method out to make updating easier, and to make posting photos easier, so enjoy!
