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- Orange is the New Black makes its feminist points in a slyly subversive way: its radical themes combine with compelling storytelling as we are plunged, cellmate-like, into intimacy with the characters.
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Jun 11, 2015 · Ultimately, Orange is the New Black is great feminist television because it brings these culturally invisible women to unignorable, vivid life.
- Debra Ferreday
Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison, by Piper Kerman. Orange Is the New Black. started picking up media attention shortly after its release. Orange Is the New Black. takes place in a fictional women’s prison, Litchfield Penitentiary, located in upstate New York.
- Michael Robert Chavez
- 2015
Jul 26, 2014 · Orange Is the New Black is a Netflix Original Series that has captured the imagination of millions of viewers and a Golden Globe nomination for best actress. It has also sparked a firestorm of controversy about privilege, gender, race, crime, and the criminal justice system.
Aug 5, 2013 · The culture blog Autostraddle has been doing Orange recaps and highlighting the show’s queer and feminist themes. There is a trans character, Sophia, played by a real trans activist, Laverne...
- It gave us a plethora of varied female bodies. Orange is the New Black depicts a fabulously wide range of women – black, Latina, white, Asian, transgender, cisgender, old, young, skinny, fat, tattooed, pierced and scarred.
- It presents so many queer characters in a matter of fact way. Queerness is depicted as a normal part of life at Litchfield prison. Queer characters include Piper Chapman (Taylor Schilling), Boo (Lea DeLaria), Alex (Laura Prepon), Nicky (Natasha Lyonne), Poussey (Samira Wiley), Suzanne (Uzo Aduba) and Brook (Kimiko Glenn) amongst many others.
- It privileges marginalised voices. Orange is the New Black consistently privileges the voices of often-marginalised women over that of its protagonist Piper Chapman (Taylor Schilling), a blonde middle-class woman who once lived “in a good-sized house” with a housekeper, now sentenced to 15 months in jail on drug charges.
- It gives us in-depth stories of women of colour. Orange is the New Black is not creating a new world, but it is reflecting the diverse world in which it was created.
Jul 26, 2018 · But even as it speaks to other texts, through purposeful allusion and inference, Orange is the New Black subverts anticipated paradigms, taking the Women in Prison genre into new narrative territory, constructing a different and a more inclusive kind of female representation on screen.
Jul 26, 2019 · Orange is the New Black paved the way in allowing women on the small screen to be lovably messy, and also demonstrated how the most compelling stories are often the ones where we see female...
