tuck, twist, twink (2024–2025) explores how queer and non-binary identities are read, misread, and regulated within hypermasculine frameworks. Through self-portraiture, I revisit spaces of discipline and misrecognition, using hair, gesture, and costume as unstable signifiers of gender. Some images embody vulnerability and reclamation, while others lean into the uncanny or humorous, disrupting the viewer’s expectations and highlighting the instability of gendered assumptions. Across the series, the body becomes a shifting terrain of memory and transformation, negotiating the tension between concealment and visibility, burden and liberation. These works reflect an ongoing attempt to understand how I am perceived, how I navigate gendered space, and how misrecognition shapes the ways queer bodies move through the world.