ep. 81: How to Break Tattoo Taboos with Margaret Cho
How do gender, race and class color our tattoo perceptions? Comedy icon Margaret Cho breaks down the body politics of being a heavily inked Korean-American woman. Plus! Cristen and Caroline discover the original "tramp stamp," a stick-n-poke renaissance and the origins of the ladylike tattoo taboo.
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