Vanity Fair

FROM MEGAN THREE STALLION TO BREONNA TAYLOR, BLACK WOMEN’S TRAUMA DESERVES BETTER THAN MEMES. For weeks now memes about Breonna Taylor, the EMT who was fatally shot by Louisville police on March 13, have proliferated on the Internet. Classic meme formats have been repurposed, like…a text-based recipe with a twist calling for justice for Breonna. Some tweets used sex to sell their call to action… “Now that I have your attention, arrest the cops who killed Breonna Taylor.”

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