Trans artists have long struggled to balance the desire for self representation with the rampant and increasing politicization and commodification of trans bodies. Within this context, trans artists have been forced to consider how their work might be taken up in ways that reproduce harm and how their visibility might be weaponized against them. Within this context, this presentation offers two modes of working that resist the politicization and commodification of trans bodies; abstraction and obfuscation. Abstraction, and in particular figurative abstraction, as it is deployed by trans artists can offer as Jack Halberstam stated “a means of representing, complicating, dispersing and concealing trans embodiment”. Obfuscation can be understood as a means of obtaining what Édouard Glissant called the “right to opacity” or in other words the right for aspects of ourselves to remain unknowable or ungraspable. Both abstraction and obfuscation are also particularly useful in the field of new media art with its current focus on synthetic/constructed media and subjects, and the field of trans art which often addresses the fluid nature of bodies and identities. Drawing further on the work of Halberstam and Glissant as well as Susan Stryker and David Getsy, this presentation will explore how trans-identified new media artists use abstraction and obfuscation to subvert and opt out of mainstream media's toxic visibility paradigm. Additionally, this presentation will consider how these tactics offer trans artists and their communities ways to imagine more livable futures.