Christine Sun Kim ILY Sticky Hand

$4.00 at Whitney Museum of American Art.

Designed by Christine Sun Kim, this ILY Sticky Hand represents the complicated feelings she has for the universally known ASL sign: "Many people who are not Deaf know the sign for "I Love You" in American Sign Language (ASL). There is even an emoji of it. It's kind of cheesy that the Deaf community is represented by the sign for "ILY"–would you feel comfortable saying "I love you" to strangers? Sometimes it strikes me as infantilizing to represent our community with this phrase. It seems like an…