Tina Rushing
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Tattooed, Tested, and Touring: When It Goes Public
Tattooed, Tested, and Touring: When It Goes Public
There’s a weird kind of heartbreak that comes with living even a semi-public life.Not the obvious kind. Not the strangers on the internet who have opinions about you without ever meeting you. That part? You almost sign up for it. You learn to build some kind of callus. You expect it. I say this as someone who still constantly gets hurt by comments even from strangers but I am able to recover easier. But this time? This is different.This is someone who knew me....choosing to talk about me somewhe
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Tattooed, Tested, and Touring: I'm just a teenage dirtbag
Tattooed, Tested, and Touring: I'm just a teenage dirtbag
Wheatus, Keep Flying, and Why We Keep SwabbingOnce again I’m out on the road for a week of shows with the incredible humans in Wheatus and Keep Flying. And I have to admit, it feels really damn good to be around people who care about Punk Rock Saves Lives. From the moment I showed up I was welcomed with open arms and immediately hit with my favorite question: “What dogs do you have with you this time?” (obviously I have Lilly and Kit)That’s the kind of energy I like to start a week with. The kin
Tattooed, Tested, and Touring: On Loving My Mother and Naming the Monster That Took Her
Tattooed, Tested, and Touring: On Loving My Mother and Naming the Monster That Took Her
Today would have been my mom’s 60th birthday. Her name was Christine Larch, but she went by Tina. I was named after her, which feels poetic and complicated all at once, like most things in my life. Life truly can be many things at the same time. I am a mental health advocate because I grew up as the child of someone with debilitating OCD. Not the kind people joke about. Not the kind TV makes palatable. Not “quirky” or “organized” or “I just like things clean.”This was OCD that controlled her lif
Tattooed, Tested, and Touring: The Beginning of the Year
Tattooed, Tested, and Touring: The Beginning of the Year
January is a weird month. 2026 seems to be a weird year. I’m home. Actually home. Sleeping in the same place more than three nights in a row. Cooking meals that don’t come from a truck stop. Hugging people and hanging out with friends without a countdown clock in my head. And I’m grateful for that...deeply grateful. But I’m also restless as hell.This is the part no one warns you about. When motion is your normal state, stillness doesn’t feel like rest... it feels LOUD and exhausting. My body is
Tattooed, Tested, and Needing to share a little PSA?
Tattooed, Tested, and Needing to share a little PSA?
Working in the nonprofit sector isn’t a calling... it’s a kind of combustion. It’s setting yourself on fire to keep everyone else warm. And before you come at me with, “but it’s so rewarding,” or “you get to travel and see so much music,” let me stop you right there. Yes, this work can be beautiful. But this is not a cute Instagram story. This is not a movie montage. This is real, messy, exhausting, soul-shaking work—and it doesn’t look how I imagined it would.People love to romanticize nonprofi
Tattooed, Tested, and Took an actual vacation.
Tattooed, Tested, and Took an actual vacation.
Sometimes self-care looks like rest. Other times, it looks like a riot.This week, it was both. For the first time in what feels like a lifetime, I gave myself permission to actually unplug. Not a “catching up on work while in a line” break. Not a “sure, I’ll just answer this one message real quick” kind of fake rest. I mean a real, full-stop, unapologetic boundary. A hard line drawn in permanent marker. The kind of break where I silenced the guilt (the best I could), shut down the people-pleasin
Tattooed, Tested, and Working from home?
Tattooed, Tested, and Working from home?
I’ve got a rare, mythical thing happening right now — a whole month at home before I hit the road again for another three-month stretch. The last time I was in one place this long was... what, December? I think it was December… maybe? Then again, I toured with The Toadies and Vandoliers in December, so that timeline might already be a lie. Honestly, time gets weird when you live out of a suitcase and measure your life in venue parking lots and green rooms. Days blur, months overlap, and suddenly
Tattooed, Tested, and Touring: The Ripples Are Real
Tattooed, Tested, and Touring: The Ripples Are Real
It’s been a long couple of years. And by long, I mean the kind of stretch where burnout doesn’t just visit — it moves in, redecorates, and makes itself at home. Where exhaustion seeps into your bones, and joy starts to feel like something reserved for other people. The things that used to fill your soul — live music, community, purpose — slowly started to feel more like items on a never-ending checklist. You keep moving, keep doing, but the spark? That part of you that used to light up? It start
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