Following the 2016 election, I captured portraits of those who felt silenced and obliterated. Through pose, gesture, gaze, and props, they turned themselves ‘inside out’ to visually assert their identities. I gave material expression to the damage rendered by our fear of the ‘other’ and resistance to diversity by ripping the photographs to create wounds. Inspired by the Japanese practice of Kintsugi, which repairs broken pottery while highlighting its scars, I restored the torn portraits using rice paper and golden thread.