I am a scholar of queer and trans art, media, and culture. My current motivating concern is trans feminine visual enclosure; what I describe as an isolating regime of visuality that narrows trans femininity into fixed racialized figurations of abjected excess – dispossessed sex worker, mutilated monster, malicious trickster, fragile dysphoric, plasticized medical marvel. My dissertation “Trans Femme Aesthetics: Gestural Practices of Images and their Excess” argues that trans women use gesture in contemporary photography, film, painting, and sculpture to develop novel significations of trans femininity and differently embed themselves in relations of power.