How An Indigenous Bodysuit Becomes A Healing Practice with Ecko Aleck

About this episode

Ecko Aleck discusses the transformative experience of living with a full bodysuit and its impact on her identity as Two-Spirit.

063 A year after the last needle pass, what’s left is not just ink, it’s a new way of living inside your own skin. I’m back with Ecko Aleck, who returns to reflect on what it’s actually been like to live with a full bodysuit long after the swelling fades, including the moment the markings helped make it impossible to keep hiding and led her to come out publicly as Two-Spirit. We talk about the hard, honest mechanics of transformation during ancestral skin marking and cultural tattooing: hitt...

People in this episode

Host: Dion Kaszas

Guest: Ecko Aleck

Topics covered

• Indigenous culture
• bodysuit
• healing practices
• transformation
• cultural tattooing
• Two-Spirit identity

Keywords

• Indigenous bodysuit
• healing
• cultural tattooing
• transformation
• Two-Spirit

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Two-Spirit

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