This digital poster will describe the concept of masculinity from the perspective of a Colombian Canadian heterosexual Latinx emerging scholar in Language and Literacies Education. The author uses tattoos on their body as identity texts to understand their role in society and the academic world throughout their life. They draw on the New Literacy Studies (NLS) framework to understand how individuals can challenge and confront masculinity through the production, distribution, exchange, refinement, negotiation and contestation of meanings. The author collected photos of tattoos from different parts of their body and analyzed them through critical discourse and text analysis. They argue that tattooing their body for over 30 years has been a performative act to be visible within a Macho culture in Latin America. This digital poster presents the relationship and tensions between tattoos, identities, and spaces as New Literacyscapes (SkinScapes) to redefine meaning. The poster depicts preliminary findings indicating how tattoos as semiotic symbols can serve as a multi/literacy practice, a form of resistance, and a way to question heteropatriarchal normativity. This includes collective imaginings of roles, modes of dress, style, language, and beliefs. The body vis-a-vis the tattoos on the skin are a stage for masculine performance that could hinder or empower the true potential of individuals. The research presented in this digital poster posits with cautious optimism how personal stories can be made constructive to conceptions of body and skin as canvas for semiotic identity text that asserts, amplifies, legitimizes and/or problematizes masculinity in society and in the academic world – knowledge necessary to advance curriculum based on equity, inclusion, and diversity.