The accent is an embodied marker of difference and otherness and a significant sensory register for racialization and othering. Through a first-person account of the desire to erase an accent and “pass” as a competent citizen of White Anglophone America, the author describes one way that she became problematically racialized in relation to the English language and its specific accent. The process intersects with gender and sexuality and touches upon a topic of colonial mimicry. The descriptive narrative has broader implications regarding how the ambivalent relationship with the English language shapes the racialization processes and the sense of belonging of Asians in America uniquely, with or without an accent. The author captures micro-moments of being Asian in America: how one “becomes” Asian and American, and how one “performs” Americanness in relation to the English language and accent, similar to the way that one “does” gender.