Gentle explores the slow, subtle doom of everyday trans-femme ennui in traditional domestic space. It engages with confinement at “home,” constricting body shapers, and absent intimacy through a dance of desire and antagonism with the phantom gaze of the viewer. “Ordinary” spaces and rituals reveal an inherent queerness. ©2020 Young Joon Kwak. To view supplemental materials related to this article, please view http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/suppl/10.1162/DRAM_a_00937.

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