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Next article FreeCoverFull TextPDF Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreCover: The Mothertongue Project, Walk: South Africa (2014–19). Performance Project.Photographed by Catherine Trollope. The title is inspired by Indian theater artist Maya Krishna Rao’s Walk. Rao crafted Walk after the rape and murder of Jyoti Singh Pandey, a twenty-three-year-old student who was tortured, raped, and killed by six men on a Delhi bus in December 2012. A few months later, we decided, with Rao’s permission, to create our own version of Walk as a response to the gang rape and murder of Anene Booysen, a South African teenager, in 2013. The unimaginably horrific assault and deaths of these two womxn was a catalyst to create Walk: South Africa as a way to honor their memories and to talk honestly about rape culture. Our vision for Walk: South Africa is centered around a sparse aesthetic that foregrounds the figure of the womxn. Its focus is very much on the performers and considers the unavoidable physical fact of their bodies—a fact that we understand rape culture to seek to obfuscate or erase.© 2013 by the Mothertongue Project. Permission to reprint may be obtained only from the Mothertongue Project. Next article DetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Signs Volume 46, Number 3Spring 2021 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/712072 Views: 396 © 2021 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved. Crossref reports no articles citing this article.