Memphis Mori is a thirty-two-year-old queer femme, mother of two, former tattooer, and full-time business bimbo.

 

She’s an immigrant, originally from Port Elizabeth, South Africa, and has been making noise in the Canadian tattoo industry since she was 15 - queering it up long before it was marketable.

 

She owns GRIM Studios, a queer- and femme-run tattoo shop in Hamilton, Ontario, and founded Reth-Ink, a tattoo removal studio offering free removal of hate, gang, and trafficking tattoos.

She’s also the founder of BodyALTAR, a premium piercing jewelry boutique for people who want to look hot without selling out.

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She’s the creator of COVERED, the viral content brand reclaiming queer and femme tattoo history—tattoo history’s revenge arc—and the founder of INKONOCLASM, a merch collective exclusively for queer tattoo artists. Both projects center erased artists, radical politics, and Y2K goth bimbo aesthetics. She’s not here to play nice—she’s here to document, disrupt, and redistribute.

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Memphis has been featured in Vice, and in multiple tattoo magazines. In 2019, she co-produced the COVERED x Villain Arts Toronto Tattoo Convention, the first of its kind in Canada. She also helped launch Sullen Canada, and is currently the marketing director for Electrum Tattoo Supply.

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She’s retired from tattooing (thanks to a hand injury), but still brings the same energy to content creation, education, and advocacy. She’s political, proudly queer, and knows that tattoos are never just tattoos—they’re resistance, reclamation, and a middle finger to conformity.