Pink flash-style design of a heart with a banner reading FEMINIST and two roses with leaves, drawn in bold outlines with no body placement shown.

Feminist banner, heart and roses flash

Traditional · Colour · Flash

A flat drawing of a solid pink heart crossed by a white banner with the word FEMINIST in pink capitals. Two pink roses with leaves sit at the upper left and lower right, and a ribbon tail extends from behind the banner. The linework is clean and uniform, with no shading, on a plain white background.

Traditional Heart Banner Rose Ribbon Lettering Leaves

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The wedding was set for the Saturday after Lammas, in the church at Brackle Mill, and by the Friday the whole valley knew the weaver's daughter had sewn something she meant to carry in. Ada Thornicroft sat up past midnight with her mother's wedding sheet across her knees, cutting it into a long white band. She stitched the letters in red thread, one by one, so that by morning the cloth read FEMINIST from one end to the other, and she folded it into her basket beside the bread.

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Tom, the baker's son, saw it first when she unfolded it on the church path. He asked her what the word meant, and she told him plainly: that a woman was a person before she was anybody's wife, and that she would be a person after the ring was on, too. He laughed, the way young men do, then looked at her face and stopped. The girls of the village took the two ends of the banner and held it up between them, and the wind off the moor pulled at it like a sail.

The reeve came hurrying down from the vestry to say it could not be hung in a house of God. Ada pointed up at the lintel, where a painted heart and two roses had been carved by men who were long dead, and asked whether the roses had ever troubled the reeve. He had no answer for that. She tied the banner to the bell rope, and Tom took the other end of it, and they rang the bell together.

By evening the cloth hung from the mill wheel, and the water turned it slowly round and round, so that the word came up out of the spray again and again and could be read from the far bank.