A picture was removed from Rupi Kaur’s Instagram. Okay, no story in that. But the picture was not “NFSW”. That is, it didn’t have any nudity. It had a fully clothed woman sleeping on her bed alone. Only, she had a stain on her pyjamas– a menstrual misgiving.
Instagram deemed it wasn’t adhering to its “Community Guidelines”.
Rupi confronted Instagram by questioning the grounds on which her picture was removed. Rupi, who’s based out of Toronto, said, “Instagram provided me with the exact response my work was created to critique.”
I will not apologize for not feeding the ego and pride of misogynist society that will have my body in an underwear but not be okay with a small leak. When your (Instagram) pages are filled with countless photos/accounts where women (so many who are underage) are objectified, pornified, and treated less than human.
Rupi Kaur, artist and poet
Instagram brought back the picture in less than two days, saying someone from their team had “accidentally removed” the picture.