In PAPI, a gesture transforms the hand into a sexual organ claiming masculinity.

Surrounding this gesture, the word pájara — a queerphobic insult in the Dominican Republic — is written obsessively across the surface. Through repetition, the insult begins to fracture, to lose its violence, to mutate into affirmation. The field of words becomes a chorus where stigma turns into power, insult into emancipation.

Together, gesture and text expose the mechanics of how language and anatomy are policed, while proposing other possibilities. PAPI reclaims masculinity and queerness at once, reimagining both body and word as spaces of transformation.