April Kalogeropoulos Householder is a media scholar and adjunct faculty member in the Gender and Women's Studies Department at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. She is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and the author of several articles on intersectional feminist history and theory. Adrienne Trier-Bieniek is the chair of sociology and anthropology at Valencia College in Orlando, Florida. She is the editor of numerous books on popular culture.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction: Is Orange the New Black? (April Kalogeropoulos Householder and Adrienne ­Trier-Bieniek)

"Chocolate and vanilla swirl, ­swi-irl": Race and Lesbian Identity Politics (Sarah E. Fryett)

We Will Survive: Race and ­Gender-Based Trauma as Cultural ­Truth Telling (Kalima Y. Young)

Jenji Kohan's Trojan Horse: Subversive Uses of Whiteness (Katie Sullivan ­Barak)

"You don't look full ... Asia": The Invisible and Ambiguous Bodies of Chang and Soso (Minjeong Kim)

Cleaning Up Your Act: Surveillance, Queer Sex and the Imprisoned Body (Yvonne Swartz Hammond)

The Transgender Tipping Point: The Social Death of Sophia Burset (Hilary Malatino)

All in the (Prison) Family: Genre Mixing and Queer Representation (Kyra Hunting)

Pennsatucky's Teeth and the Persistence of Class (Susan ­Sered)

Pleasure and Power Behind Bars: Resisting Necropower with Sexuality (Zoey K. Jones)

Anatomy of a Binge: Abject Intimacy and the Televisual Form (Anne Moore)

"You don't feel like a freak anymore": Representing Disability, Madness and Trauma in Litchfield Penitentiary (Lydia Brown)

Piper Chapman's Flexible Accommodation of Difference (H. Rakes)

"Can't fix crazy": Confronting ­Able-Mindedness (Sarah Gibbons)

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