Editing Dancehall (section)

== Women's message of power and control ==
Dancehalls are used to communicate messages of women's power and control in a protest against their gendered experience embedded in Jamaican culture. Danger, a dancehall queen and the winner of the International Dancehall Queen Competition in 2014, expresses her power through dancehalls as she explains: "We are queens, we are not afraid to go out there to do what we want to, demand what we want, and to live how we want, and represent women all over the world and to let them know it is okay to be yourself and that it is ok to not hold back" <ref>Refinery 29, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhNtELN4xw0 "How Jamaican Dancehall Queens Twerk For A Living | Style Out There | Refinery29"]. Youtube, hosted by Connie Wang, April 6, 2019, {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190525205918/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhNtELN4xw0 |date=2019-05-25 }}</ref> Raquel, also known as Dancing Princess, describes her ability to communicate through the dancehall: "What you've lived, what you feel, put it in the dance. That's what dance is, expressing with your body what you feel and who you are. (...) dancehall is the way of the woman to say no, I am a woman respect me."<ref>Will, Jay, and Janet Ginsburg. Bruk out! A Dancehall Queen Documentary. Video Disco, 2017.</ref> As evidenced by these women, dancehall is a space that allows for women to be empowered and to communicate their liberation from the boundaries imposed on them. Rather by negotiating their own boundaries in the dancehall, by taking control of their bodies, and by communicating their power, they are demanding respect when confronted by those who do not believe they deserve it.