First of all, let me take this opportunity to greet every woman out here for International Women’s Day 🙂
As some of you may already have gathered from reading some of my previous posts, I’m a fan of spoken word poetry and have dabbled in a bit of spoken word myself. So, to celebrate International Women’s Day 2014, I share here a curated list of eight powerful spoken word performances that I believe every empowered woman must watch in order to remind her of her true worth in this world.
(Be warned: some of them are pretty intense stuff; I’ve cried watching them!)
If you love what you see here, please feel free to pass it on 🙂
1. Sarah Kay: If I should have a daughter (I’m obviously a Sarah Kay fan!)
2. Lily Myers: Shrinking Women (a great counterpoint performance to #1)
3. Sonya Renee: The Body is Not an Apology
4. Katie Makkai: Pretty
5. Alicia Keys: P.O.W. (from her book, Tears for Water)
6. Becca Khalil and Nayo Jones: Ambiguous (for anyone who’s had to deal with rude questions on race)
7. Thea Monyee: Woman to Woman (for anyone who’s ever had to deal with ‘that girl’)
8. Najia Muhammad-Jaaber: Live Before You Die and Beat the Drum (An awesome spoken word performance by a female Muslim spoken word artist–what a revelation!)
Believe me, there is sooo much more good stuff where those came from, so I’ll be sure to post more spoken word performances in this blog. (To all Pinoys looking for more Filipino spoken word performances, stay tuned for material from Speak Philippines in Niña’s Notebook!)
