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What You Won’t See on Orange Is the New Black

Beatrice Codianni

When I heard that Piper Kerman wrote the book Orange is the New Black about her experience at the Danbury, Connecticut federal prison camp, I was excited. I served part […]

  • Arts & Entertainment

Orange Is the New Black Is Back!

Kat Kucera

Happy Friday, Ms. readers—and happy Orange Is the New Black season three release day! Or so we thought. In a wonderful plot twist, Netflix actually released the latest season of one of our […]

  • Arts & Entertainment

Shonda Rhimes and Jenji Kohan Honored at 2015 Global Women’s Rights Awards

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The Feminist Majority Foundation’s 10th annual Global Women’s Rights Awards on May 18 were a star-studded affair. Actors from Grey’s Anatomy, Orange Is the New Black, Scandal, How To Get Away […]

  • Arts & Entertainment

The Women Who Run the Show

Dani Klein Modisett

This article appears in the Spring 2015 issue of Ms. To read our exclusive interviews with Shonda Rhimes and Jill Soloway, subscribe today! Back in 1973, when Linda Bloodworth-Thomason was hired as […]

  • Arts & Entertainment

6 Feminist TV Shows You Can Watch Right Now

Emily Mae Czachor

Sick of male protagonists saturating your television screen? It wouldn’t surprise us. Studies show that female characters in television shows only make up less than 40 percent of speaking roles—and when […]

  • Herstory

Diversity Wins Big at SAG Awards

Anita Little

In the wake of #OscarsSoWhite and Ava DuVernay’s Academy Awards snub, there was a bit of good news for women of color in Hollywood Sunday night. At the annual Screen […]

  • Arts & Entertainment

Around the Ms. Office: Our Favorite Women on Television

Brianna Kovan

If your post-election mental state needs a boost (ours does), we’ve collected a list of our favorite women on television, present and past, for your viewing pleasure: Women leads who […]

  • Justice & Law

Back to the Big House

Simone Lieban Levine

As avid fans know, the second season of Netflix’s hit show, Orange is the New Black, has been released. The series is a fictionalized version of the real-life story of […]

  • Arts & Entertainment

Laverne Cox Epitomizes Growing Transgender Rights Movement

Emily Shugerman

When transgender actor Laverne Cox graced the cover of Time magazine this month, the magazine was showered with accolades for featuring her story. But the article also ignited a predictable […]

  • Arts & Entertainment

“Orange Is The New Black”: Taking Privilege to Task

Claudia Liss-Schultz

Netflix’s brilliant new original series, Orange is the New Black, stars Taylor Schilling as TV’s most unlikely convicted felon. Piper Chapman is a white, upper-middle class, Smith-educated fish-out-of-water in the suffocating […]

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