Our bodies, much like the land, were mapped like territory—disciplined, measured, and separated. This has always been the foundation of coloniality: to control and dominate by creating hierarchies, drawing borders, enforcing binaries, and severing relationships. The same logic that carved up bodies of land and water transformed our bodies into battlegrounds, mapping danger, deviance, and disposability onto those who were marked as “other.” This is the reality of living under cartographies of control.
