Oct 8, 2015

Six Incredible Female Performance Poets Spit Rhymes of Reason

8th March is International Women's Day, to celebrate here are six incredible poems written and performed by women.
By Andrew Butler / filmsforaction.org
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Six Incredible Female Performance Poets Spit Rhymes of Reason

4 min · Dominique Christina performs "Karma".
3 min · Andrea Gibson performing "Birthday" at Keuka College NY on September 30 2009.
4 min · Rafeef Ziadah, a Canadian-Palestinian spoken word artist and activist, performs a poem in response to a journalists who asks "don't you think it would all be better if you just stop teaching your children to hate".
5 min · Vanessa Kisuule calls on all women, whatever their age, creed or class, to stop shrinking themselves, and instead, take up space!
3 min · Poem by Agnes Török on the news of a new Conservative budget. Based on experiences of living in Britain under austerity as a young, queer, unemployed, female immigrant student - and not taking it any more. More info...
5 min · 19-year-old spoken-word poet Sarah O'Neal recites her poem “An Overreaction,” where she speaks about Dr. King and her frustration at having to defend protests.

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