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DOI 10.60531/INSIGHTOUT.2024.2.6| FRAUWALLNER: IN//OUT OF FRAME_ INSIGHTOUT 2(2024) 36 rary academic lens through which we look at them. Even today, there is a lack of primary sources on/by indigenous women and paradigm shifts have only re­cently occurred that facilitate precedents and space for gendered approaches to historiography, especi­ally historiographies of the Global South. In the colo­nial setting discussed here, Herero women were very much visible to themselves and their communities, even if they were invisible or instrumentalised in the­se Western albums. This paper highlights the intersecting oppressions of race and gender that shaped the realities of Herero women, illustrating the particular vulnerabilities they faced as colonial subjects. By drawing attention to the gendered implications of colonialism in the con­text of the German-Namibian War, it contributes to a deeper understanding of the legacy of colonialism and colonial infrastructure projects in Namibian his­toriography.