{"id":10,"date":"2019-07-11T13:37:52","date_gmt":"2019-07-11T17:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grad.journalism.torontomu.ca\/influencerindustrycanada\/?page_id=10"},"modified":"2019-07-23T09:31:25","modified_gmt":"2019-07-23T13:31:25","slug":"sharan-guruparan","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/grad.journalism.torontomu.ca\/influencerindustrycanada\/sharan-guruparan\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharan Guruparan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #3598f0;\"><a style=\"color: #3598f0;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/sharanguru\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@sharanguru<\/a><\/span>: Representing race and body positivity<\/h2>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B0EoerJJNaq\/\" data-instgrm-version=\"12\" style=\" background:#FFF; 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font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:550; line-height:18px;\"> View this post on Instagram<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 12.5% 0;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: row; margin-bottom: 14px; align-items: center;\">\n<div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(0px) translateY(7px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #F4F4F4; height: 12.5px; transform: rotate(-45deg) translateX(3px) translateY(1px); width: 12.5px; flex-grow: 0; margin-right: 14px; margin-left: 2px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(9px) translateY(-18px);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 8px;\">\n<div style=\" background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 20px; width: 20px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\" width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 2px solid transparent; border-left: 6px solid #f4f4f4; border-bottom: 2px solid transparent; transform: translateX(16px) translateY(-4px) rotate(30deg)\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: auto;\">\n<div style=\" width: 0px; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-right: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(16px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\" background-color: #F4F4F4; flex-grow: 0; height: 12px; width: 16px; transform: translateY(-4px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\" width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-left: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(-4px) translateX(8px);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/a> <\/p>\n<p style=\" margin:8px 0 0 0; padding:0 4px;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B0EoerJJNaq\/\" style=\" color:#000; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none; word-wrap:break-word;\" target=\"_blank\">This green got me feelin pretty<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;\">A post shared by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/sharanguru\/\" style=\" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px;\" target=\"_blank\"> S H A R A N G U R U?<\/a> (@sharanguru) on <time style=\" font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px;\" datetime=\"2019-07-18T20:59:25+00:00\">Jul 18, 2019 at 1:59pm PDT<\/time><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Interspersed among the candids are posts celebrating her Tamil culture. Images of Guruparan dressed for weddings in sparkly saris and gold jewelry. \u201cIt\u2019s basically everything that girls want to see and people of colour, in general, don&#8217;t get to see their own people represented all in one,\u201d she says.\u00a0 A quick glance at her feed shows just what the 20,000 women (and men) who follow her love about Guruparan. Under a post celebrating her dark skin, for example, a follower commented: \u201cYou\u2019re such an inspiration. Coming [from] a dark brown girl who has experienced the same thing. Thank you for sharing your story.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The social work student has also started making a more conscious foray into fashion and beauty, even tying her work in with the legalization of cannabis. But she\u2019s also slowly emerging into a new stream of content creator: a socially conscious influencer. Since starting her social work degree four years ago, Guruparan says her content has become informed by her work with marginalized women and communities as a result of internships at Ryerson\u2019s Sexual Assault Resource Centre and a local women\u2019s shelter. Alongside the images of Guruparan, posing in bralettes or smoking mariujuana, are captions about rape culture and sexual assault.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A January 2018 post of Guruparan posing in a sponsored dress from Xav the Label says: \u201cWe know not all men rape. We know not all men cat call. We know not ALL men are ignorant or uneducated but can the \u201cnot all men\u201d men just take one fucking second to hear these survivor\u2019s stories out for once instead of getting defensive for shit they didn\u2019t do?? We know it\u2019s not a man or woman problem. It\u2019s a cultural problem. It\u2019s the rape normalized culture we live in.\u2026 Stop getting defensive and just listen,\u201d alongside a prompt for followers to check out her Instagram story for more information on sexual assault.\u00a0 \u201cPeople are already coming to my page,\u201d Guruparan says, \u201cso I might as well inform them on some serious issues.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text]<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For most influencers, the paycheque is the goal, and Sharan Guruparan is still hustling to find her name on one. The 25-year-old Ryerson University student fell into influencing in much the same way a lot of millennials do, by creating a personal Instagram account in 2014. To connect with friends, share memes, show off her outfits. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t until two years ago I really started to see a difference in my engagement,\u201d she says. \u201cI\u2019d just write captions that I thought were funny, and a bunch of girls reacted positively because they could relate.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Guruparan, who declares herself proudly Tamil, frequently celebrates her \u201cmelanin\u201d skin and curves \u2013 often while rocking a bikini or twerking in the pool \u2013 as a means to connect with a group she says are often overlooked: young South-Asian women. A June 2019 post shows Guruparan posing on the beach in Punta Cana in a yellow swimsuit, looking directly at the camera, hip jutted to the side with her arm tattoos of Hindu gods and goddesses, on full display. \u201cEvery colour looks good on rich melanin,\u201d the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Bysj9_jJGZa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">caption<\/a> says. \u201cDon\u2019t let anyone ever tell you otherwise.\u201d\u00a0<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Bysj9_jJGZa\/\" data-instgrm-version=\"12\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:658px; min-width:326px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\">\n<div style=\"padding:16px;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Bysj9_jJGZa\/\" style=\" background:#FFFFFF; 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