It's day two of the Decolonial Pedagogies conference at Sussex, and 15 people sit on the floor of a large, light-filled room, waiting for the start of a body-mapping workshop. The conference handbook describes body mapping as ‘a flexible and creative tool to explore our inner worlds [that] can be used as a visual dialogue with ourselves to unpack facets of our experiences and as a way to communicate these to others’. The workshop facilitator begins by briefly tracing the origins of body mapping in social activism and shows some of the powerful body maps that have been created by artist-activists in a variety of contexts. Explaining that today's session will focus on participants’ relationships with power, she asks them to reflect on questions such as: Who has power over us? What do we have power for? Who do we have power with? Rather than discussing these different dimensions on a theoretical level, participants explore how they connect with different parts of their bodies. They begin by tracing the outlines of their bodies on large sheets of paper and then set about filling these with colours, patterns, slogans and images. Their creative practice is guided by the facilitator's prompts: How are your feet grounding and situating you? What and who do you hold dear and treasure close to your hearts? With whom do your fingers connect you for support? The smell of paint, glue and other crafty materials suffuses the room, against a backdrop of music and the hum of low conversations as the facilitator moves around to talk to each participant. An atmosphere of concentrated yet animated making soon takes over as everybody works on creating their unique body maps.