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Goodbye Prison Blues

hen Netflix dropped Orange Is the New Black season 1 in the summer of 2013, it changed TV forever. It was one of the first truly bingeable shows to air on streaming—literally altering the way viewers consumed content. But more than its power to render enthralled fans helpless to turn away for hours when a new season was released, it excavated the intersections of issues facing women of color, lesbians, bisexuals, and trans women. And it did

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