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One Woman’s Reaction To Every ‘White Man’s Sentence’

That’s how Melissa Lozada-Oliva begins her powerful spoken word poem “Like Totally Whatever” that she performed at the 2015 National Poetry Slam earlier this month. Lozada-Oliva details the subtle sexism engrained in the critiques of how women speak

Watch the full poem here.

In a generation or two, everyone will be speaking like young women anyway

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