Gatekeeping With A Soft Heart with Jessica Coffey

About this episode

Dion Kaszas interviews Jessica Coffey about the complexities of wearing ancestral tattoos and the cultural significance of Indigenous tattooing.

062 A lot of people want ancestral tattoos but feel stuck on one brutal question: “Am I enough to wear them?” I sit down with Inuit hand poke tattoo artist Jessica Coffey to talk about the real, complicated middle ground between pride and doubt, revival and responsibility, beauty and protocol. What unfolds is a candid look at Indigenous tattooing as living community work, not a perfect script you memorize before you’re allowed to belong. Jessica shares how she found hand poke tattooing when ...

People in this episode

Host: Dion Kaszas

Guest: Jessica Coffey

Topics covered

• ancestral tattoos
• Indigenous tattooing
• cultural pride
• community work
• identity

Keywords

• ancestral tattoos
• Indigenous culture
• hand poke tattooing
• cultural identity
• tattoo protocol

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Inuit

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