In 2013, Amy Bleuel founded the faith-based nonprofit Project Semicolon, which chose a semicolon as a symbol because it’s “used when an author could’ve chosen to end their sentence but chose not to.

In recent months, little semicolon tattoos, often placed on the wrist, finger, behind the ear or elsewhere on the body, have been gaining a lot of attention. Project Semicolon, a movement born from ...

Have you ever glimpsed a small semicolon tattoo on someone’s wrist? While it may seem like an ordinary punctuation mark, the semicolon tattoo represents a symbolic movement far beyond basic grammar.