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catalyst-38872	Lawrence, Heather	Memes on Trial: From Permit Patty to Karen	2024	19	.pdf	application/pdf	8292	400	52	In her analysis of Karen’s circulation and reception, Lewis argues that White women and Black men are both victims and accomplices of racism and sexism, and presents White men as their shared oppressor, but doesn’t attempt to incorporate Black women into this framework.2 Lewis’s failure to adequately consider Black women’s perspectives in her analysis of Karen is disappointing considering the centrality of Black women to the work of complaint and because Black women often captured the videos that make up the alliterative hashtag name meme, including Permit Patty. 2 Lewis does mention the critique of Black feminists and women of color in her article, but her discussion of these perspectives is limited to a paragraph where she argues that the origins of the Karen meme lie just as much in White sexist online cultures as much as they do in the anti-racist work of Black women, and in a brief aside where she mentions that the Yale Collective on Women of Color and the Law issued a critique of an essay by Catherine McKinnon without elaborating on the details of the critique.	cache/catalyst-38872.pdf	txt/catalyst-38872.txt