Skinny Girls Bleed Flowers - A Slam Poem

closed captions are available on this vid! turn them on if you’d like to follow along. ~ r e a d m e ~ hello! this is a poem i wrote called ’skinny girls bleed flowers.’ i’ve written slams in the past but i think this is by far the most personal and revealing. when i was 16 i was diagnosed with anorexia purging-type which is essentially a weird horrible anorexia/bulimia hybrid, but i’ve been struggling with disordered eating and body image issues for about five years. this poem is about the romanticizatio