P.ink Ink: Mastectomy Tattooing and Self-Care as Digital Feminist Body Politics

Dr. Reisa Klein is a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies at the University of Alberta. Dr. Klein’s current project examines the emergent digital cultures of breast cancer survivors who use mastectomy tattoos in response to post-operative surgery and implications for the mobilization of a transnational and intersectional feminist politics and gendered and race-based health activism. In addition, she is co-editing a special issue of Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies on "Reimaging Breasts" slated for publication in Fall 2019.  

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