Tattooing is offered as a parallel practice. A ritual of marking, witnessing, release and re-connection. Through both handpoke and machine methods, the skin becomes a site of choice and transformation. Each mark is an offering and a prayer. In both bodywork and markings we practice presence, and honour the sacredness of being witnessed.

We envision to be a welcoming place to land, and a firm ground to rise from. We center trans, queer, and care-working diasporic communities from the Global Majority — those who carry so much and are held the least. We remind ourselves that tenderness is power, presence is ceremony, creation is medicine and forms of care a collective inheritance.

This practice is rooted in the understanding of the skin as a site of memory and expression. Handpoke tattooing is a way of marking the body with intention, carrying symbols that connect us to lineage or our inner self.

We offer this as an act of remembrance and a gesture of becoming. This practice is part of our own ongoing study — informed by ancestral tattoo traditions of the archipelago, while recognizing that much knowledge was violently erased by colonialism. We hold this work with humility, offering it as a portal between the past, present and future: to honor what remains and to allow ourselves to imagine what can still be.