Saginaw Valley State is getting headlines this week because of an English class centered around Netflix' Orange is the New Black".

Netflix's "Orange Is The New Black" Panel Discussion
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The stories of Piper Chapman and her fellow inmates at Litchfield Prison are the subject of a series of English classes falling under the umbrella of Writing About Oppression within Topics in Critical Writing.

Associate Professor Kim Lacey tells MLive she loves the show and want to keep talking about it. Specifically she'll delve into race, gender, class and more.

Obviously Lacey is on to something as the  class enrollment is full.

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