Aryana Goodarzi Wrote About Their Experience Getting A Tattoo From A Queer Arab Tattooer

For Everything is Political, Aryana Goodarzi wrote about queer Middle Eastern/North African tattoo artists and tattoo culture. 

Goodarzi told Study Hall, “I can attest that almost every queer person I know has at least one tattoo. It is still rare to find Middle Eastern/North African (MENA) tattoo artists in the states, and for a huge cultural moment to be generated by queer MENA people makes me proud – and its implications go far beyond tattoos. Born in the West and raised in the diaspora, these artists found themselves able to hold the at-onceness of their identities through ink.” 

Goodarzi’s writing has appeared in Everything is Political and Journal of Political Inquiry. Subscribe to their Substack.