DESIGN PEGGY’S 49th BIRTHDAY TATTOO AND WIN A
6-WEEK UNLIMITED YOGA GIFT CERTIFICATE
Submissions due by October 25, 2012.
Is it time for me to get a tattoo? I have held off all these
years because I could not think of anything I would want for posterity. But
knowing that posterity may mean 20 or 30 years only, I think I can risk it. I
have an idea that needs to be “fleshed out” by my visual artist friends.
“Brown Girl Dangerous” is my alter ego/inner
superhero/spiritual warrior. I would like to have her tattooed on my left
shoulder and upper arm. She need not be figurative but may be an abstract
design.
Brown Girl Dangerous’s superpower is that she tells and
lives the truth at all times, while being impervious to persecution and
torture. She is perimenopausal, in a state of flux and transition, and her
powers are getting stronger as she ages. She has not yet reached the peak of
her powers. She is fearless because she knows she can never be hurt, and
because she knows that truth, although it has the ability to both heal and
destroy, in and of itself, is neutral.
BGD is dangerous because there are parties that depend on
the denial and obfuscation of truth for their survival. She maintains a sharp
edge because she has to defy these parties to do her job of living and telling
the truth. BGD’s brownness puts her at odds with white supremacy. She
identifies with the oppressed, marginalized, and persecuted, and lives out the
truth as a revolutionary act to dismantle these structures. She knows that an
individual’s act of resistance can disrupt a whole system and inspire an entire
movement.
BGD is complex because the truth is multi-layered,
problematic, shifting, and contextual. She has to encompass and embrace all of
the messiness of truth. BGD’s vulnerability/weakness is that she has a poor
sense of timing! She struggles with the best times to reveal the truth.
Sometimes there is no good time.
BGD is maiden, mother, and crone. She is a girl warrior with
irrepressible, daring energy. She is a mother, nurturer, and source of
compassion. She is a crone, with nothing on earth to lose, and one foot in the
spiritual world.
Are you getting some images, ideas, and inspiration? I hope
so! Please, no anime characters. We like subtle, and abstract may be better than representational. Show me what you got and drop off your design at 8LHC, 2474 N
Booth, Milwaukee, WI 53212, or email to peggyhong@sbcglobal.net by October 25, 2012. I will get the tattoo done by my birthday on the 31st.
The artist of the selected design will be rewarded a 6-week
unlimited pass into all of my yoga classes, from 1 November-15 December 2012.
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