Two themes animate the work of Thandiwe Msebenzi: silence and the performance of gender in South Africa. Msebenzi’s two major bodies of work explore these themes through different subjects — the clothing worn by Xhosa men following initiation ceremonies and the ways women encounter and are normalized to patriarchy at home. Much of her work,

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