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Orange Is The New Black (TV series)

2013 TV series Available on Netflix, AppleTV, Prime Drama, comedy

Plot points:

Netflix original series

Prison system

Drug dealing and smuggling

The criminal justice system

The cost of redemption

Crime

Intersection of class, race, privilege, sexuality in concerns of life in prison

Found family

Institutional corruption

Multiple queer characters

Multiple black sapphic characters

Main black, transgender character (Laverne Cox's Sophia)

Queer (transgender) in real life actress (Laverne Cox)

Queer (lesbian) in real life actress (Samira Wiley)

Based on a memoir

Created by a female writer

TW//: Graphic sexual content, murder, bullying, drug smuggling and dealing, overdosing death, violent, bloody scenes

Black sapphic characters:

Poussey (Samira Wiley) Suzanne "Crazy Eyes" (Uzo Aduba) Sophia** (Laverne Cox)

Connections:

Poussey x Soso (interracial sapphic: black x asian) x Franziska (interracial sapphic: black x white) Suzanne "Crazy Eyes" x Maureen (interracial sapphic) Sophia x Crystal (black sapphic)

Sex & Nudity - Severe

Frequent full female nudity (breasts, butts)

Full frontal male nudity (penis seen)

Graphic sapphic sex (oral, fingering) with moaning

Brief segments of commercial porn

Simulated sex scenes (heterosexual)

Discussion of lesbian sex

Characters are naked together

Implied masturbation

Sexual assault

Violence & Gore - Moderate

Prison violence (non-gory, not bloody)

Character's throat is slit

Character is stabbed in the back with a screwdriver

A body is cut up and buried; lots of blood visible

A young girl is murdered by two older women

A goat is shot and sliced open, and a fetus falls out; lots of blood visible

Character held down by a gang and branded (with a swastika) using a hot metal spike

Character is raped (by a guard)

Sexual blackmail and harassment

Character dies on-screen due to suffocation

Prison riot in response to a character's death

Profanity - Severe

Use of fuck, bitch, ass, shit, cunt, whore, asshole, damn, etc

Multiple instances of racist slurs and stereotypes (Black, Latino, Asian, queer)

Ableist language used

Racial slurs used (n-word)

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking - Moderate

Drug dealing and the criminal justice system

Character struggles with drug addiction

Meth addicted characters

Character overdoses and dies

Characters speak longingly of drugs

Smuggling cigarettes

Characters smoke cigarettes frequently

Frightening & Intense Scenes - Moderate

Character falsely accuses another of rape

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tw: sa assault mention!

one thing thats super underrated with caputo and figueroa is how they both baby the inmates in their own way b/c they’re human and they know the inmates deserve better care. caputo’s obviously way more obvious with the way he fought for taystee, fought to get the girls a decent education program, and leaked sophia’s condition so her wife could properly fight the MCC to get her out of seg. figueroa was much more subtle about it. in the second season when she snaps at taystee for expecting a job out of job fair seemingly regrets taking her anger out on her (at the time she was stressed out about a reporter looking into the funds of the prison) and tries to satiate her by promising money in her commissary. and, of course, when she comes to the MCC’s detention center she gives up her own chances at having a baby by giving one of the girls a pill necessary to induce a miscarriage bc she couldn’t stand the thought of her having to carry her attacker’s baby to term. these two were really meant for each other.

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Day 3: (some of my) Favorite Friendship(s)

→ Dany & Missandei (Game of Thrones)

→ Rosa Diaz & Amy Santiago (Brooklyn 99)

→ Poussey Washington and Tasha 'Taystee' Jefferson (OITNB)

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