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Following the traumatic experience of sexual violence, survivors often feel a deep and frustrating loss of agency over their own bodies. Of course, everyone’s healing process is different, but it’s very common for survivors to seek tattoos and other body modifications as a method of taking back control. To discuss this phenomenon, I reached out to Zoë Bean, a tattoo artist working in Brooklyn at The New Moon Studio. Zoë’s work is stunning, of course (seriously, check out her instagram, it’s amazing)–but more than that, she’s tremendously compassionate and easy to talk to. Even just over the phone, she exudes warmth. Here’s how our conversation went…