In 2013, the Mothertongue Project, a women’s theater collective based in Cape Town, South Africa, developed a performance called Walk: South Africa (Walk: SA) as a critique of rape culture. Walk: SA was prompted by the rape and murder of Anene Booysen, a Black South African teenager, in February 2013 and directly inspired by Maya Krishna Rao’s Walk, created in response to the similar rape and murder of Jyoti Singh Pandey in Delhi, India, in December 2012. This essay analyzes how a 2014 performance of Walk: SA contributes to theorization on the interconnectedness of racial, gender, and sexual exploitation. I focus on three vignettes within the performance that connect histories of racialized violence against Black South African women to Booysen’s case and that of other women in the contemporary period. Using walking as a mnemonic device, and with commentaries on actual women’s experiences, the performers make a claim for women’s right to traverse the public space, and they exhort their audience to action. With its public engagement and no-holds-barred approach to the issue of sexual violence, Walk: SA participates in feminist discourses that include race and gender in ongoing conversations around democracy in South Africa. More broadly, it exists within the new iterations of women-led public activisms against sexual violence that have taken root throughout the world in the twenty-first century.

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母语项目步行中的种族、公共领域和性暴力：南非

2013 年，总部位于南非开普敦的女性戏剧团体 Mothertongue Project 开发了一场名为 Walk: South Africa (Walk: SA) 的表演，作为对强奸文化的批判。Walk：SA 是由 2013 年 2 月南非黑人少年 Anene Booysen 被强奸和谋杀引发的，并直接受到 Maya Krishna Rao 的 Walk 的启发，该步行是为了回应印度德里 Jyoti Singh Pandey 类似的强奸和谋杀案而创建的， 2012 年 12 月。本文分析了 2014 年 Walk: SA 的表演如何促进关于种族、性别和性剥削的相互联系的理论化。我专注于表演中的三个小插曲，这些小插曲将针对南非黑人妇女的种族化暴力历史与布伊森的案件以及当代其他妇女的案件联系起来。使用步行作为助记工具，通过对女性实际经历的评论，表演者主张女性有权穿越公共空间，并劝告观众采取行动。Walk: SA 凭借公众参与和对性暴力问题的无拘无束的态度，参与了包括种族和性别在内的女权主义话语，这些话语包括在南非围绕民主的持续对话中。更广泛地说，它存在于由女性领导的反对性暴力的公共活动的新迭代中，这些活动在 21 世纪在世界各地扎根。SA 在围绕南非民主的持续对话中参与了包括种族和性别在内的女权主义话语。更广泛地说，它存在于由女性领导的反对性暴力的公共活动的新迭代中，这些活动在 21 世纪在世界各地扎根。SA 在围绕南非民主的持续对话中参与了包括种族和性别在内的女权主义话语。更广泛地说，它存在于由女性领导的反对性暴力的公共活动的新迭代中，这些活动在 21 世纪在世界各地扎根。