2. “what is the greatest lesson a
woman should learn
that since day one
she’s already had everything she
needs within herself
it’s the world that convinced her
she did not”
― Rupi Kaur, the sun and her flowers
3. Introduction
• Rupi Kaur (born 1992) is an Indian-born Canadian
poet, illustrator, photographer, and author. Kaur rose
to fame on Instagram and Tumblr through sharing
her short visual poetry.
• A millennial poet who emigrated to Toronto,
Canada when she was a child. She holds a Bachelor
of Arts from the University of Waterloo.
• a 21-year-old university student ,wrote, illustrated
and self-published her first poetry collection, milk
and honey. Next came its artistic sibling, the sun and
her flowers.
• These collections have sold over 8 million copies
and have been translated into over 42 languages. Her
most recent book, home body, debuted #1 on
bestsellers lists across the world. Rupi’s work touches
on love, loss, trauma, healing, femininity, and
migration.
4. unconventionally
honest of a poet
• While attending college, Instagram censored a self-
portrait she had posted for a photography school
project where she was lying in bed with menstrual
bloodstains on her sweatpants and sheets.
• She took the opportunity to criticize the platform´s
hypocrisy for regularly posting highly sexual pictures
of women and yet blacklisting a typical female
experience.
• Rupi Kaur´s authenticity has been contested and
some have even bashed her writing as a being
misrepresentation of the South Asian female
experience.
• Providing a biased opinion, it seems fair to say that
although there are many talented authors with
similar stories, Kaur makes an honest effort to
verbalize the hardships of being an immigrant
woman of color in a predominantly western and
patriarchal environment.
5. Accomplishments
• The leading Ínsta Poet has earned many
recognitions including the 2017 BBC 100 Women
Award and in 2019.
• She was commissioned by the prominent printing
house Penguin Classics to write an introduction for a
new edition of Khalil Gibran´s The Prophet.
• She also hosted her own Ted Talk “I´m taking back
my body”.
