247 Ink Magazine (December/January) 2016 Issue#12 | Page 133

on my page other than not tattoos M: (laughs) yea, well you didn’t understand from my perspective. The first 5 years of my career I had to only put my work up so that when I actually made it somewhere people took me seriously so the male artists that I worked with only knew me for my work and not my selfies. (laughs) I was gonna say that it’s fine, but he just irritated the fuck out of me (smiling) and I’d say it’s the same thing as it is in any part of society because men are.. C: Awesome M: Annoying (laughs) Can I just say one thing here? If there’s a lack of respect, women have to just be responsible for it for ourselves. If you’re doing good work, you’re doing good work, if you’re dressing cute and doing shitty work of course you’re not gonna be respected. By being responsible for what you’re putting out is the best way to improve any respect issues. S: Steve mentioned on 131