Sukirtharani
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Sukirtharani is an Indian feminist[1][2][3] poet who is widely acclaimed for her contribution to contemporary Dalit and Tamil literature.[4]
Sukirtharani is also a Tamil teacher at the Government Girls High School in Ranipet District, and has a master's degree in economics and Tamil literature.[1] Her works include six published collection of poems.[4] The works themselves have been described as celebratory towards the female body and a chastisement of the oppressive caste system which encapsulate a dual experience of being born both a female and a dalit.[3] Her works have also been noted to have an eco-feminist approach to them.[5] She has featured alongside the poets Kutti Revathi, Malathi Maithri and Salma in Lakshmi Holmström's translated compilation Wild Girls Wicked Words.[6] Holmström in her anthology describes Sukirtharani as one who seeks "an infant language with all the rough and physical reality of new birth, sticky with blood".[7]
