/StaDemonia Tattoo Stockholm 2025.03.14/
Finally you can buy your copy of Sara Swanson’s book Queer Tatueringshistoria / Historier. Find it at StaDemonia Tattoo Stockholm or stademoniatattoo.bigcartel. (Also at larger online stores but there it is more expensive). It is a beautiful interview book, 170 pages in Swedish, and with fotos of Del LaGrace Volcano!

Queer Tatueringshistoria / Historier is an interview book, and a work of memory about LGBTQ+ people’s experiences from getting and being tattooed. Sara Swanson has collected memories  through interviews with eleven LGBTQ+ people, as well as a couple of heteros, who got tattooed during the 1970s and 80s. Most live or have lived in Stockholm, Sweden, and form fragments that together visualizes parts of Swedish tattoo history. Is tattooing really as heteronormative a story as Swedish tattoo books and historiography make it appear?
Del LaGrace Volcano, legendary photographer, has depicted queer community and life internationally for the past 50 years. In this book, Del has portrayed the LGBTQ+ people who shared their memories. Yolanda Aurora Bohm Ramirez, who among many other skills, is a poet, translator and sound technician, has taken audio and assisted during interviews. The book also contains a chapter on Swedish tattoo history by Helena Meyer, author of Tattooing – Myths, facts, history and future. Graphic designer and zine maker Rasmus Eo Clarke has made the beautiful design.

Contact: sara@stademonia.com