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Watch The Cast Of 'Hamilton' Perform 'Let It Be' At Chicago Women's March (Chicagoist):

[. . .] “I march to stop giving power to the media controlling our perception of what a woman should look like and how she must behave,” Ari Afsar, who described the scrutiny her appearance, demeanor and more were under when she was Miss California, told the crowd. “Somehow every decade thanks to commercials, magazines, fashion and cartoons we are made to believe that there is an ideal woman...that is all a lie. There is no one woman,” she said.

Afsar was joined onstage prior to the group’s performance by fellow cast members Karen Olivo and Samantha Marie Ware, who also told the crowd why they planned to march that day.

“I march for the scared and humiliated, the survivors and the fighters, the sisters and the daughters, for the parents who refuse to live in a world where sexual assault is normalized or tolerated,” said Olivo.