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Poet and best-selling social media star Rupi Kaur has criticized the decision by some UK universities to scrap English literature courses, calling it “appalling” and “sad”.

The Queen of Instagram Poets hopes activists and organizations in the UK manage to “resist” and ensure students have access to literature.

It comes as a handful of universities decide to close their English literature courses, while others are expected to cut undergraduate degrees in the near future.

Speaking to Sky News, she said: “It’s horrible that they can do that. I went to university and studied English and it shaped what I’m doing today, so I’m sad when another, who fell in love with that learning curve, won’t have access to that.”

Among the universities hit for the degree glitches are Sheffield Hallam University, which is reportedly canceling its English literature course, and Roehampton and Wolverhampton, which have also announced plans to cut arts programs and their humanity.

It comes in the middle of a row Rishi Sunak’s vow to eliminate college degrees does not improve students’ “money-making potential”.

Punjab-born Kaur, who rose to fame through social media, is now one of the most famous poets in the world with 4.5 million followers on Instagram.

In 2014, she self-published her first book, Milk And Honey, which spent 77 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and sold more than eight million copies worldwide.

On the eve of her UK world tour, she spoke to Sky News about her successful books, what it’s like to be at the show and how it feels when her poems are She is banned in Texas.

She said: “The energy in the UK is always welcoming and for me when I arrive in the UK I feel right at home.”

When does she perform in the UK?

Kaur, who is on a six-month world tour, will perform eight shows across the UK.

She says her talk show is “still really new to most people”.

“This feels very intimate because I’m sharing personal stories and anecdotes between the poems,” she added. “In a sense, it’s a lot like a party. Don’t expect the show to be quiet and polite – we’re loud, we’re cheering, we’re shouting.

“I was totally engaged and chatted throughout the show, and that’s what made the performance so magical.

“It’s like feeling like a giant slumber with all your close friends!”

Kaur’s early poems were marked by themes that would appear in all her subsequent works, such as abuse and healing, becoming an immigrant, love and loss, women’s empowerment and self-esteem, as well as the violence that many South Asian women endure.

Poems Prohibited in Texas

And it was because of the topics, especially about sexual assault, that Texas libraries and schools banned her first book earlier this year.

She said: “It left me speechless and my heart broken. It breaks my heart to know that there are 15 or 16 year old girls in a certain high school who can find solace in a books like Milk And Honey and won’t have access to it now because certain groups of people fear it inspires something terrible in people, which it isn’t.

“And that’s where I hurt. I really feel sorry for the communities that don’t have access to the material they want to have access to.”

Kaur added Recent U.S. Supreme Court landmark ruling on abortion rights is another example of where progress has been pushed back.

“I think some parts of the world have this fear, which is the fear of what an empowered person will look like,” she said.

“My books are just one of hundreds: there are books on abortion or books that delve into the subject of sex, or the subject of the LGBTQ+ community – all of which are often discussed about banned and that just shows we’re on the wrong track again.”

It was the power of social media, especially Instagram, that helped bring Kaur’s career to where it is today. She believes the platform is “an incredible tool to help democratize the publishing industry”.

“When I published my first book in 2014, there was very little space for someone like me, a Punjabi Sikh immigrant woman,” she added.

“Social media has allowed people who aren’t janitors to space now to take up space. And so I feel like over the last 10 years social media has really helped the yard a lot. play, but there’s still a lot of work to do.”