Leading Topics of The Hub
Through the BTA Black History Hub, we will share artist + community insights, thought, and suggestions regarding:
- Underrepresentation of racial and ethnic diversity within the tattoo culture
- Industry-based inequalities for tattoo professionals within an intersectional approach
- How media representation reinforces patterns of racial/ethnic and gender inequality among tattoo artists
- The shifting presentation of gender issues imbedded in tattoo culture
- The social construction of deviance and its historically varied connection to tattoo culture
- The process of legitimization and redefinition among tattoo artists
- A social history tracking broader social forces and their impact on tattoo microsystems
- Tattoo culture as reflective of popular culture dynamics; the process of co-optation
- The unintended impacts of mainstreaming on the tattoo industry.