This girl puts modern dating to shame

There was no holding back for the first ever Poetry Slam event collaboration between Ryerson student groups The Urban Hip-Hop Union and The Poetic Exchange. From spoken word tell all’s to unwritten letters to the TTC, the event was a therapy session for amateur poets and hip-hop fans alike.
Cassandra Myers is a third-year Ryerson student who’s definitely not new to poetry. As a regular performer at The Poetic Exchange’s Poetry Slams, a finalist at the National Poetry Slam, and a member of BAM! Toronto’s Youth Poetry Slam, Myers is a confident and riveting poet.
Myers recited her new poem “Never Have I Ever” at Poetry Slam on Oct. 27.
“The poem is a year’s worth of really bad experiences just from dating,” says Myers. “I wanted to call out the sex-positive movement because I think it can be kind of exclusive in certain feminist spaces…there’s still this dominating narrative about what it should be. In turn, it starts to lose the safety measures around dating and positive sexuality.”
“That poem was just me vomiting up everything that had happened to me,” she continues, “but that’s usually what poets do!”
Watch Cassandra Myers perform “Never Have I Ever.”
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Girl YESS! Just what I needed to hear tonight.

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No, she puts her father to shame.

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So good!

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you go girl!!

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Always remember: You wanted this.

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Y E S, great Cassandra!!!

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I cringed so hard