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Gap Analysis

 * What is the title of the article in which you identified a gap. If no article exists at all, what should the title be?

Zanele Muholi


 * Document the gap you found, describe how you identified it, and analyze its impact on knowledge.
 * Document the gap you found, describe how you identified it, and analyze its impact on knowledge.

I identified a Wikipedia gap within one of the course related artists, Zanele Muholi. I found this gap by searching up some of the materials discussed in class that I was interested in, such as Zanele Muholi, and then I found a gap that limited information where the page seemed to be sparse and limited. I recognized the information on the page does not include enough brief history or links in the article to different movements and forms of art Zanele Muholi contributed to, and the article fails to mention her significance, relevance, or concepts within feminism and art. These gaps limit knowledge or structure within feminism and art because it does not document different, specific movements and forms of art Muholi contributed towards feminism and art. Along the axes of power such as gender, sexuality, race, class, and nationality, the page inadequately recognized Muholi’s role during the time frame she produced her art work. During the end of Apartheid of South African history, it was an end of formal racial segregation with a new constitution that protects the equal rights of citizens based on race and gender. Through the post-Apartheid period of transition, Muholi produced photography as a disciplinary regime such as realist, evidentiary performance that demonstrated expressive possibilities that challenged its’ disciplinary history. Muholi formed an art, feminist movement that acclaimed a kind of political identity that expressed sex-body, sexual relationship behavior, orientation, gender assignment, expression, and affectional orientation. This feminism movement not only captured self-identity in trans-gendered individuals but captured individuality and humanity through collectivity of pictures. The axes of power in her trans-art work presented survival and resilience within this community, thinking through the history that is continuing, and the power dynamics of interracial relationships.


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· An addition to a pre-existing article - addition should be included in her career or history

Zanele Muholi first created an activism movement against homophobic violence during a socio-political history in South Africa. During this time there were violent acts directed towards black lesbians and people of the LGBTI community. For instance, in contemporary South Africa, lesbian masculinities evoked violence and Butchness that escalated levels of rape and murder. Lesbians are often perceived as a societal threat and thus were raped and violated in order to conform to the binary standards and to be “corrective.” The ideas about sexuality and gender variance were obscure with South Africa’s history of slavery, colonialism, and established racism of apartheid. The intersected nature of sexuality, gender, and race of lesbians and the LGBTI community were challenged and constricted. As a visual activist, Zanele Muholi works to honor those that challenged gender expressions and those that struggled for freedom and equality. Muholi makes a correlation to photograph the LGBTI community to convey a politically meaningful vision and a national consciousness. One of Muholi’s famous series “Faces and Phases” originated from homophobic hatred and violence in South Africa. Embodying a new vision of African sexuality, Muholi assembles a vision of queer lives through powerful public visibility through intimate, collective, and autobiographical visual portraits. She formed an art feminist movement that embodied different kinds of political identities. Muholi significantly captures self-identity through sex-body, sexual relationship, behavior, orientation, gender reassignment, and expression. Zanele Muholi contributes to represent the existence and resistance of black queers in South Africa and not only captures self-identity but also individuality and humanity.


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 * Banderoon, Gabeba (2011). "Gender within Gender": Zanele Muholi's Images of Trans Being and Becoming. Feminist Studies 37, no. 2
 * Banderoon, Gabeba (2011). "Gender within Gender": Zanele Muholi's Images of Trans Being and Becoming. Feminist Studies 37, no. 2


 * Mamata, Bidisha (2015). "Pride and Prejudice: How Zanele Muholi Documents South Africa's LGBTI Community". BBC Arts.
 * Stevenson, Michael (2010). "Zanele Muholi: Faces and Phases". The Stevenson Exhibit.
 * Swarr, Lock Amanda (2012). "Paradoxes of Butchness: Lesbian Masculinities and Sexual Violence in Contemporary South Africa". Journal of Women in Culture and Society 2012, vol. 37, no. 4
 * Wortham, Jenna (2015). "Zanele Muholi's Transformations". The New York Times Magazine.