b'PHOTOGRAPHYPhoto credit: Cora Kavyaktok. Kavyaktoks duties included documenting intimate moments of women receiving their traditional markings. My fingers are all done, my chin, my arm. And Ive got my chest done as well, she shares. Mine are a mixture of modern-day tattoos and traditional ones as well.Traditional Inuit tattoos, historically significant for storytelling and cultural identity, faced near-extinction due to colonization. Kavyaktok laments, Its one of those things that has been taken from our culture for so long due to coloniza-tion that a lot of the meanings were lost throughout the years, because they werent something that was being passed down anymore.Despite the historical erasure, Kavyaktok is determined to reshape perceptions of Inuit women. As time went on, I wanted to not have so much focus on just our lines, she shares. I wanted it to also show the beauty that we are, too, because I felt like with our beauty it was likeheres the tattoos, but then our beauty came second.One of Kavyaktoks proudest moments occurred during a ceremonial tattooing event in Rankin Inlet. I noticed historical photos on the walls of the tattooing stationsold, archived photos of Inuit women with traditional tattoosand there was this one photo of an Elder and she was naked. She looked scared and timid; you could tell she wasnt comfortable, she recalls. Our own Elder that was with us on that tripshe let me take a photo of her wearing only a scarf while she displayed her lines, and shes giggling with her toothless smileshes just so happy.Campbell also focuses on Indigenous joy in her projects, in the interest of chal-lenging the narrative about Indigenous women. One such project, An Aunties Joy, celebrates Indigenous women in moments of laughter and connection. For Aunties TWO-SPIRITJoy, we had thin bodies, we had large bodies. We had Black Indigenous, we had SAFER SPACESwhite-passing Indigenous. We had tattoos, ONLINE TRAINING we had no tattoos, Campbell explains. I invited Indigenous women from community to get their portraits taken A new self-guided online course for service providers to buildwhile laughing and grinning.capacity in positively impacting the lives of Two-Spirit, Indigiqueer, and LGBTQ+ Indigenous people accessing aThe project aimed to document the essence of Indigenous joy and community range of programs and services. Launching this fall! spirit. We put it on a billboard in Saskatoon, Campbell describes. People For more information about the Two-Spirit Safer Spaces Training visitwould walk by, do a double take because us at saferspaces.ca, oahas.org, or email us at Leisha@oahas.org the beading was so bright, and the womens smiles were so big. And then they would smile as the observer, and thats exactly what I wanted.46Spring/Summer 2024'