It doesn’t hurt that Kaur herself is visually striking: her long face, sharp jawline, and wide, dramatic eyes star in the copious selfies that also fill her Instagram account. In recent years, she has settled into a pattern of alternating between poem-images and self-portraits, most fully posed (rather than the standard casual snapshots), costumed in elaborate high-fashion outfits and makeup. She poses her physical presentation as equal to her art, a conflation that not every creator is capable of or desires to make. (We are all unequal in the very human evaluation of beauty, which is a
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