Eda will discuss what it means to practice border rhetorics research as a cultural rhetorics performance in studying maps as sites where issues of identity, alterity, and violence emerge in tension through the critical lens of border thinking as a decolonial methodology. Eda will conceptualize her understanding of cartography’s colonial logic, which uses ‘border’ as a device of orientation that systematically reduces non-Western, non-white, and indigenous bodies into a totalized category of otherness in local and globalized geo-cultural settings. Using Orientalism as a departure point, Eda will share different examples of cartographic orientations of otherness that inflict epistemic border-violence of identification. She will also talk about cartographic successes and/or failures of maps and mapping practices that intend to challenge, resist, and move beyond the coloniality of border-violence, and how these successes and/or failures uncover spaces in-between where unique rhetorical performances of diverse border cultures emerge with decolonial possibilities and visions.