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In September 2016, Joey Soloway gave a master class on the female gaze at the Toronto International Film Festival. The term male gaze was first coined by Laura Mulvey in her 1975 essay Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema and, just like Mulvey, Soloway gives their own definition of the Female Gaze in three parts. Part one: “reclaiming the body, using it with intention to communicate Feeling Seeing”. An example of this female gaze is in the television show I Love Dick, Soloway said in an interview at the Sundance Film Festival that, “I Love Dick...is a series that confronts us with the power of that feminist anger, the female gaze...” Then, part two: the gazed gaze which Soloway describes as taking the camera and using it to show how it feels to be the object of the gaze. For example, in the film Fish Tank, Soloway says it does exactly that, “...while I was watching it, I was like this is the female gaze. She is showing us how it feels to be this girl. She is not looking at this girl” they explained. And finally, part three: a “Socio-Political justice-demanding way of art making” and returning the gaze.. The female gaze is about people reclaiming ownership over their body, deciding how it can be portrayed and, as Soloway points out, is a “conscious effort to create empathy as a political tool” thus seeking out empathy rather than objectification.