Queer. Lesbian. Immigrant. South African. Canadian. Mother. Retired tattoo artist. Studio owner. Podcaster. Content creator. Professional loud mouth. Unprofessional everything else.
I own House of GRIM, a tattoo and piercing studio in Hamilton, Ontario. I have a podcast called The Bimbo and the Brat. I have over 100K followers on Instagram and the only thing I've ever shut up about is my children because they didn't ask for any of this and their privacy isn't content.
I used to run a brand called Inkonoclasm that was supposed to be a merch collective for queer tattoo artists. Beautiful idea. Logistical nightmare. Turns out I work better alone and I work best angry.
So here's Cuntry Club.
Every design is mine. Every word on this site is mine. Every decision about where the money goes is mine. Not because I'm a control freak — ok, partially because I'm a control freak — but because when you strip out the committees and the collaborators and the consensus-building, you get something honest. And honest is the only thing I know how to be.
I don't believe in hustle culture. I don't believe in boss babe energy. I don't believe capitalism is your friend — it's a machine, and I'm using it to move money from people who want a hoodie to organizations that need funding. That's it. That's the whole business plan.
I'm anti-capitalist in ideology and pragmatist in practice. I live in the system. I can't opt out. But I can make it bleed in the right direction.
I believe in anger as a valid response to injustice. I believe in saying the thing everyone's thinking but nobody wants to say out loud. I believe in being too much, because "too much" is just code for "more than they're comfortable with," and their comfort was never my responsibility.
If you're angry, you're welcome here.
If you're tired, you're welcome here.
If you're both — yeah. Same. Welcome to the club.