![]() ![]() But instead of hating on annoying Larry from your gym who only a few of your gym buddies would know of, the internet has opened up the possibility of sharing your hate for a bigger entity with way more people. ![]() It’s what helps us stick in groups, which is what has helped humans to survive and ultimately dominate. This hate, in a way, is wired into our system itself. Also, because they're constantly under the spotlight, we tend to be aware of their flaws.” “We might see them as being overrated we might suspect that much of their success is just due to luck. Newman, an associate professor of psychology at Syracuse University. “For all the acclaim that celebrities get, we often have ambivalent feelings toward them,” says Leonard S. This might simply have to do with her having made a cult-like following. “It was almost incel-like, you could see their misogyny clearly,” she says.” I don’t like her poetry myself, but I don’t use that to be misogynistic against her.”īut here’s the thing: This might not even be about Kaur being a good poet or a bad poet. Twitter user who goes by “no name” online noticed men leaving creepy remarks on her viral tweet on Kaur. But it’s not uncommon to see memes and parodies on Rupi Kaur with misogynistic undertones-with some saying she would not have faced this if she were a white man. Kaur’s style has been made fun of, or at the very least, parodied, for so long that it’s hard to see any actual critique come through. Since then, the page is also being used as a platform to advocate for mental health, social and racial justice, and feminist issues. I was messing around with Instagram poetry one night and thought it would be fun to share with the world.” In a week, her page had 20,000 fans. In the meantime, Kaur’s book received the sort of free publicity any self-published author would kill for.“I started the page on a whim one stoned night,” the anonymous woman running the page tells VICE from Montreal, Canada. Her protest gained massive public support, and Instagram eventually backed down. Kaur made a name for herself by standing up for art: She publicly denounced Instagram for its double-standards regarding its policies and its patriarchal attitudes. Instagram decided that one of the images in this “visual poem” violated their terms of service and it took the picture down. In 2015, Kaur had a dustup with Instagram when she posted a school project: A series of photos focused on menstruation. She put together Milk and Honey as a self-published book and got it to Amazon in November of 2014, where it sold nearly 20,000 copies. Kaur had been pouring her art directly into the Internet, and it hadn’t occurred to her that there might be demand for something as old-school as a printed book. Kaur’s fans began asking her where they could buy a book of her poetry in 2014. Of 05 She Originally Self-Published Milk and Honey ![]() Even those normally plugged into the world of modern poetry are a bit surprised Kaur is just 24 years old, and no one could have predicted that someone so young would just drop a book that sells a million copies. Milk and Honey has quickly gone from relative obscurity to a secure place in the entrance table of every bookstore, on every list, and in everybody’s newsfeed. Think unvarnished, and brutally honest, and immediate-reading Kaur’s work, one gets the impression she is pouring her soul directly onto the screen or page without a filter, with nothing more than her keen sense of beauty and rhythm to guide the words into poem-shape. If you hear the word “poetry” and think of dour old rhyme schemes and lofty, flowery language, think more modern. Kaur’s poetry spits fire on subjects ranging from feminism, domestic abuse, and violence. ![]() That alone makes Rupi Kaur’s Milk and Honey a remarkable book, but the words within deserve more than just a few perfunctory statistics about book sales (a million copies as of January 2017) and weeks on The New York Times’ bestseller lists (41 and counting). It’s fairly uncommon for a book of poetry to not only hit the bestseller lists but to stay there week after week. ![]()
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