Hannah is an undergraduate at Montana State University. She studies English education and women, gender, and sexuality studies. Drawing from several semesters of studying art, Hannah uses gesture drawings to investigate the embodiment of participation in writing centers. Hannah’s research explores Godbee, Ozias, & Kar Tang’s (2013) argument that “systematic power and privilege...are mapped onto, read through, and enacted in the body” (p. 63). Hannah uses gesture drawings to analyze tutoring sessions through the lens of home and hospitality as theorized by Grustch McKinney (2013), Miley & McNamee (2017), and Eodice (2019). Gesture drawings—a studio arts research tool where bodies become lines, shadows, and highlights (Nicholaides 1990)—capture the tensions and power dynamics within a tutoring session by displaying tensions within a body. Through these tensions, gesture drawings inherently ‘speak’ ideologies of participation even when the subject is not aware their body is speaking. Using her own gesture drawings from the Writing Center at Montana State University, Hannah will illustrate how tutors and writers enact various forms of participation in tutoring sessions and what that reveals about ideologies of participation.