1. Between Gay and Queer, the Dyke Megan Obourn Associate Professor of English The College at Brockport, SUNY mobourn@brockport.edu

2. Qs Was the dyke already queer in that she could not be fully represented as a subject? Has queer simply continued to reinforce the invisibility of lesbians? Is queer more acceptable as a radical subject position than lesbianism and if so why? In our current moment where is the popular cultural fetish for lesbianism that attends gay masculinity? Is woman already a queer position that undoes the possibility for a more limited but privileged because identifiable subject position like gay? What kinds of possibility for gender identity are foreclosed by the term lesbian and/or the representation of the dyke? And is this foreclosure the reason for more female identifiable and gender normative lesbian characters on television? 3. Orange is the New Black 2013, Jenji Kohan 4. OITNB Representational Possibilities 5. Narrative Frames 6. From Aura Bogados White is the New White, The Nation. 16 August 2013 With very little exception, I saw wildly racist tropes: black women who, aside from fanaticizing about fried chicken, are called monkeys and Crazy Eyes; a Boricua mother who connives with her daughter for the sexual attentions of a white prison guard; an Asian woman who never speaks; and a crazy Latina woman who tucks away in a bathroom stall to photograph her vagina. I will acknowledge that Orange Is the New Black has created a credible role for a trans black woman, played by Laverne Cox, an actual trans black woman. And I cant deny that the series has created a payroll for many actors of color. But again, just like the practice 150 years ago during the height of the slave narrative era, those experiences are first authenticated by a white personin this case, a white woman whose prison stint can never be a substitute for the violence institutionally carried out against women of color in the criminal justice system. 7. Baths and Showers Before 8. And after 9. Taystee Poussey 10. Big Boo Black 11. Big(g) Boos Sex scene 12. Lea DeLaria Huffington Post Interview 13. Lesbians are very dangerous 14. Suzanne Crazy Eyes Warren 15. Pipers lens focalizing Sue 16. Urination Scenes 17. Sophia, played by Laverne Cox and her brother M. Lamar 18. Utopia is the education of desire Jos Esteban Muoz 19. Claire Potter on Jodie Fosters comingout-not-coming-out speech How to think about this little exercise in narcissism, one that so trivializes the struggles of most GLBTQ people in comparison to Fosters depiction of herself as a fragile girl? People of color, queer or not, rich or poor, cant walk down the street, or into a store, or into their own apartment buildings, or drive down the street in their own cars, without knowing that they can be stopped, frisked and arrested at any moment on suspicion of being a threat to public safety. 20. Bibliography Orange is the New Black Potter, Claire Munoz, Jose Witting De Lauretis