🎧The Underground Tattoo Podcast: ceasgenko — Pirate Queen of the Underground Renaissance

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From pirate queen with a boat, to horseback medals, to turning trauma into teaching—Genko’s story is pure underground tattoo legend.

Why she’s called the “Pirate Queen” (and yes, she really owns a boat)

Horses, competitions, and toughness beyond tattooing

Tools of the trade: her favorite needles, machines, and inks

Choosing classical art over Pinterest tattoos

Boarding school = “super bougie jail” and finding art as a lifeline

Dropping out of art school and betting everything on tattooing

Sexism, gatekeeping, and building her own lane in the UK tattoo scene

Teaching beginners for free (and letting them tattoo her first)

Addiction, recovery, and connecting through sobriety

Why the underground tattoo movement is only just beginning

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Love,
-Hotscratcher & Clover


Timestamps:

00:00 – Welcome to The Underground Tattoo Podcast
00:01 – Pirate Queen: boats, fishing, and chosen names
02:00 – Horses, medals, and surviving 40+ falls
04:15 – Tools of the trade: needles, machine, ink
07:00 – From Pinterest tattoos to the Underground Renaissance
09:40 – Customs she takes vs. declines (grasshopper story)
10:40 – Boarding school = “super bougie jail”
13:00 – Dropping out of art school and choosing tattooing
16:00 – Seizing the Instagram bubble before it closed
18:20 – Why the underground movement is still early
19:45 – Too many tattoo artists? Genko says no
22:00 – Building culture that outlives you
24:00 – Getting into tattooing in the UK scene
26:20 – Teaching beginners for free & taking their first tattoos
30:00 – Facing sexism and creating safe spaces
34:00 – Choosing kindness vs. spite in the industry
36:30 – Trauma, self-awareness, and protecting clients
39:00 – Tattoos as sacred practice inside capitalism
40:30 – Sobriety, being outed, and connecting with hundreds
42:00 – The responsibility and influence of tattoo artists
43:20 – Closing: building a better underground future