The Gaze

4. A safe, accepting, and supportive space that grants women autonomy over their bodies while belly dancing.
6. A performance art that originated around the Middle East, historically used in comunity celebrations, religious ceremonies, and many other aspects of daily life (two-words)
7. Laura Mulvey's influential theory which evaluates the depiction of women as objects of male desire throughout popular culture (two-words).
9. A black female representation and stereotype in media, taken from this character in Amos 'n' Andy
10. Which presenter has a long weenis (elbow)?
12. Western stereotypes of the Middle East and Asia that reinforce colonialism.
13. The daughter in Imitation of Life that passed as a white woman.

1. A critical and resistant way of looking developed by Black women as a response to the absence, negation, and misrepresentation of Black womanhood in mainstream media (two-words).
2. Combating the gaze through confrontationally challenging it.
3. This type of gaze caters to the desires of straight men and is commonly referred to as the male gaze.
4. A source of ambivalence, taking control over the gaze by approaching performances differently than stereotypes depict.
5. This presenter has a pet gecko.
8. Women and marginalized groups are often made invisible or are misrepresented in mainstream cinema (two-words).
11. Which presenter is married to a Canadian?