In this chapter I explore the diminishing and even loss of expressivity as a facet of experience. I claim that loss of political expressivity a phenomenon that is qualitatively different, if not separate from a lack of the communicative capabilities required for effective political participation. I give examples from sociological literature on social exclusion, and then diagnose them as a form of aphonia. A picture emerges of a loss of expressivity as the diminishing of the expressive modality of the lived body. This fracturing of the expressive modality of the lived body has perceptual implications, as perception itself is an expressive process. In this way the fracturing of the expressive modalities of the body can lead to the inability to perceive oneself as a capable public speaker and the public realm as a welcoming field of possibilities for political engagement. The kind of language required for public participation is itself an unequally distributed good. I propose that political theory should pay attention to the ways that the negative social experiences can diminish, or in extreme cases, even completely take away the capability to authentically express one’s own social experiences on one’s own terms.