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 which narrows an expanse of trans femininities into fixed racialized figurations of abjected excess – dispossessed sex worker, mutilated monster, malicious trickster, fragile dysphoric, plasticized medical marvel. My dissertation “Trans Femme Aesthetics: Visual Enclosures and Gestural Abundance” responds to what has been named as trans studies' "photography problem" through an intermedia approach across contemporary photography, film, painting, and sculpture. I trace how gestural and sensational aesthetic practices revise the violent stability, presumed truth, and enigmatic failures of the photographic image into a site for the desires, politics, and proliferative sensibilities of trans femininities.