Lily Myers, Shrinking Women

A student at Wesleyan University in Connecticut, Lily Myers has accumulated a following on social media due to her spoken poetry. In “Shrinking Women,” a video of her recital at the 2013 College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational, Myers narrates the pressures she faces from her mother to be thin and vents her frustration with the particular pressures women face.

Source: YouTube.com

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