This 8-page booklet contains deconstructed images from the reality series “Bling Empire” and text from USA Today’s article titled, “Bling Empire gives Asian Americans time to shine”. Asian culture can be incredibly private and finding space to discuss taboo or “shameful” topics can be a challenge within certain Asian communities. Parallel to this, is the idea that those who identify as Asian-American may struggle to find space where their intersection of cultures is understood and respected. Stereotypes of what constitute “Asian” and “American” can act as barriers for accurately perceiving individuals who simultaneously embody both Eastern and Western influence. Further, these preconceived ideas can grow into expectations of who an individual should be, forcing the individual to conform to one culture or the other without acknowledging the delicate existence of duality. Through cut-out treatments of image and text that emphasize removal of eyes and mouths, this collage highlights the themes of censorship, finding your own voice, creating space for two racial identities to coexist within one individual, and asking others to accommodate the entirety of who you are.