Real Life Red
As for Red, Piper Kerman actually dedicated her memoir to this character, but refers to her as Pop in the book. In one section of her book, she remembers Pop telling her, “Listen, honey, I know you just got here, so I know that you don’t understand what’s what. I’m gonna tell you this once. There’s something here called ‘inciting a riot,’ and that kind of shit you’re talking about…you can get in big trouble for that…so take a tip from me, and watch what you say.”
Real Life Red
Mother Figures
Besides the romantic relationships, there’s something else that Orange is the New Black carefully constructs between the women. As Kerman said in 2010, “A lot of folks sort of ask salacious questions about the romantic relationships between women but I think the dominant paradigm of women’s relationships in prison is the mother-daughter relationship.”
Mother Figures