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All press coverage around Daysha’s poetry.
"What If I Knew I Was Beautiful" Featured in Bustle!
We've all heard those love songs: Guy thinks girl is hot. Girl doesn't think girl is hot. This makes guy think girl is even hotter. So what is this teaching girls? That being insecure is attractive. Thankfully,Daysha Edewi answers the question "What if you do know you're beautiful?" with her latest spoken word poem. Throughout the video, Edewi highlights song lyrics that ostensibly "reassure" women of their beauty while also transmitting the message that not recognizing your own beauty makes you more attractive. And she's right — it's messed up...
"What If I Knew I Was Beautiful" Featured in Refinery 29!
In "What If I Knew I Was Beautiful," Buzzfeed’s Daysha Edewi tackled pop songs sung by men that incessantly praise women's beauty, while addressing how their own confidence is regularly mistaken as cockiness — thus deeming them unattractive. It’s hard to pinpoint when the trend started, but over the last several years, songs attempting to reassure women that they're attractive have run rampant, even in country music...
"What If I Knew I Was Beautiful" Featured in Women You Should Know!
"What If I Knew I Was Beautiful" Featured in The Huffington Post!
“You say I don’t know I’m beautiful, but what if I did?”
That’s how Daysha Edewi begins her riveting takedown of pop culture that repeatedly tells women we don’t — and shouldn’t — know that we’re beautiful. The BuzzFeed writer and director calls out musicians including One Direction and Maroon 5 in her new spoken word poem “What If I Knew I Was Beautiful.”
Edewi uses her poem as a reminder that women don’t need men to assure women of their beauty. “I am not a parking ticket looking for your validation,” she says. “Your songs filled with sweet nothings are no longer allowed to park for free. They’re no longer allowed to cheapen my self-esteem...”
"What If I Knew I Was Beautiful" Featured In Medium!
“You say I don’t know I’m beautiful, but what if I did?”
^This quote is from Daysha Edewi who works for Buzzfeed as one of the motion pictures staff.^ She made this two minute and thirty second video with Buzzfeed to express her thoughts into a poem about how male musicians such as One Direction and Bruno Mars have to remind us women that we are beautiful because we do not know it already. Edewi then goes to say that if we were to accept the compliment and say “I know,” then we would be considered a “bitch,” being “stuck-up,” or even better "vain"...
"What I Wish Someone Told Me About Having Sex" Featured In Live Civil!
Daysha Edewi’s BuzzFeed video is currently giving both men and women something to think about in her latest spoken word video titled “What I Wish Someone Told Me About Having Sex.”
In her spoken word video, Edewi recounts the experience she had with a guy while having sex, and although, Edewi and the man used protection, she mentions she didn’t protect her emotions...
"What I Wish Someone Told Me About Having Sex" Featured On Clutch Magazine!
BuzzFeed Video’s Daysha Edewi is giving both women and men something to think about in her new spoken word video “What I Wish Someone Told Me About Having Sex.” Edewi recounts an experience with a guy, and although they used protection, she didn’t protect her emotions.
“I thought I knew everything there was to know about having safe sex. Always carry a condom and never ever get pregnant,” Edewi states in the poem...
"What I Wish Someone Told Me About Having Sex" Featured On The Huffington Post!
“I thought I knew everything there was to know about having safe sex. Always carry a condom and never ever get pregnant.”
That’s how writer and director Daysha Edewi starts out her spoken-word poem. It turns out she had more to learn about safe sex beyond physical precautions.In the poem titled “What I Wish Someone Told Me About Having Sex” posted by BuzzFeed Yellow, Edewi gives a powerful performance about the effects of having unsafe sex in a different sense, without the emotional protection one might need...
"What If I Knew I Was Beautiful" Featured On A Plus!
There's something so attractive about a woman who has no idea she's attractive.
Or at least that's the overpowering message society shouts through music, literature, and even women's magazines. It's a given that women need to be beautiful, but that beauty is somehow tainted if it's self-aware, if it's not demure.
When we say a woman doesn't know she's beautiful, it's implied that she has low confidence. Why is that charming? Does it mean we fear confident women?
In a video produced by Buzzfeed, Daysha Edewi challenges the idea that ignorance of one's beauty enhances it. She declares she doesn't need anyone to validate her self-love, and we're all for it.
"What If I Knew I Was Beautiful" Featured On SheKnows!
Daysha Edewi telling you how she doesn't need your validation because she knows exactly how bad she is is the best thing. Seriously, it's the best...