The Freire Project

Maps make messes.  Maps can also be used to mop messes up.  Consider the apparent cleanliness of colonial mapping: missionaries and mapmakers often willfully exclude indigenous populations from cartographic depictions of 'unknown' north america, leaving pristine, clean white where the 'mess' we'd rather not see resides (Brealey, 1995; Harris, 2002; Law, 2004).
Counter-mapping is a method of upsetting such carefully constructed blank slates.  Even where local resources are included on maps, those who depend directly on those resources may not be made apparent.  When those local folks make known their presence on the land, through the use of maps, they are engaged in counter-mapping (Peluso, 1995).

I just read another news story about a young boy who was harassed at school because he had long hair. Unfortunately, in this case it is allegedly his teachers who were responsible for the harassment. According to the news story at Cincinnati.com the teachers would attempt to humiliate him by putting his hair in ponytails, parading him in front of other classes with this hairstyle, and calling him by "feminized versions of his name."