Whether voice of a generation or queen of cringe, Rupi Kaur was a gateway to the world of poetry

t’s 2016, and you’re on the wean off Tumblr. That’s OK; Instagram’s made some algorithmic changes to your explore page and now exercise videos are sandwiched between Kermit the Frog memes and RIP Harambe tribute posts. You continue to scroll through Vampire Diaries gifs and share the Harambe in Heaven pic because you care about animal rights. You scoff to yourself.

My friends and I formed a sort of sisterhood of the travelling Milk and Honey, passing it along for a maximum possession period of one day – that’s how long it took to read it. We would reconvene and discuss it at length. Exploring themes like love, femininity, abuse, identity and migration, the poems were like the Spice Girls of trauma, offering something for each of us. We would read our selected poem, knowingly nodding at the choirs of “babe, so you”, or the occasional aspirated “whoa”.

An entire genre of memes was born from these polemics. Slapping “– Rupi Kaur” at the end of any vapid statement practically guaranteed you hundreds of retweets, with many quoting existing icons only to misquote it as Rupi Kaur.

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