I’ve been hearing a lot about ‘Karens” in the news. One recent, infamous manifestation is Amy Cooper, the Central Park dog walker who called the police on a Black bird-watcher (who turned out to actually be the head of the local Audobon society) for asking her to put her illegally off-leash dog on-leash. The ways in which women gain and maintain power has been top of mind for me, so I couldn’t help but notice how power dynamics of white women and white male institutions manifest in HBO’s remix of Perry Mason.

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