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Tattoos Are Virtuous

Kristina Tabor Saccone on memory and body art.

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Aug 16, 2025
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Today we share some late-summer reflections on tattoos as souvenirs and body art — a practice that, as author Kristina Tabor Saccone notes, has unexpectedly become a political act. (Kristina, by the way, is also a fiction writer, and you can keep up to date with her work here.) Enjoy!

— Santiago Ramos, executive editor

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