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"Wait, possibly... this challenges what you thought you were. And... maybe I'grand gonna get my middle broken in a thousand dissimilar pieces. Just those are maybes. Yous can't live your life accordin' to maybes."
— Poussey, on worrying

Poussey Washington was a main character on Orange is the New Blackness until her death in Flavor Four. She was an inmate at Litchfield Penitentiary and was portrayed by Samira Wiley.

Contents

  • i Personality
  • 2 Concrete Advent
  • iii Biography
    • 3.1 Before Litchfield
    • iii.2 Season I
      • 3.2.1 Flavour 7 Flashback
      • iii.2.2 Season One (Continued)
    • 3.3 Flavour 2
    • three.4 Season 3
    • three.v Season Iv
    • iii.6 Season 5
    • iii.7 Season Six
  • 4 Relationships
    • 4.1 Romantic
    • iv.2 Family
    • 4.three Friends
    • four.4 Enemies
  • five Memorable Quotes
  • vi Trivia
  • 7 Gallery
    • 7.1 Flavour i
      • vii.i.1 Promotional Pictures
    • vii.2 Season two
      • 7.two.i Promotional Pictures
    • 7.3 Others
  • 8 Appearances
  • 9 Navigation

Personality [ ]

Poussey was an intelligent, outspoken, and caring woman who stood past her convictions. She liked to joke effectually with her fellow inmates and tended to avoid confrontation and violence. She experienced depression and this led her to alcoholism.

Concrete Appearance [ ]

Poussey was petite, weighing but 92 pounds and standing at 5 feet 3 inches alpine. She had a slender figure and short black hair.

Biography [ ]

Before Litchfield [ ]

For a list of episodes featuring Poussey'southward flashbacks, see here.

Poussey had a very shut relationship with her mother, who had a Master'south degree in Art History. When she was a child, they would read together before going to bed ("Mother's Twenty-four hours").

Poussey and her German girlfriend, Franzi

Poussey was a "armed services deviling," as her father, James P. Washington, was a General in the U.s. Army. He moved the family to Hohenfels, Bavaria, Germany where he was stationed. While in Hohenfels, Poussey had a relationship with a German language commander'due south daughter named Franziska, nickname Franzi. The relationship was revealed to Franzi's father when he walked in on her and Poussey having sex. He then used his influence to get Poussey's male parent reassigned to a postal service in the United states of america. Poussey tried to suppress her feelings to no avail. Eventually, she confronted the Oberstleutnant and attempted to pull out a gun. Her father stopped her and announced his acceptance of her sexuality ("You Also Take a Pizza").

She and two of her friends, Aliyah and Mikey are boarding a motorcoach to New York City. Poussey is dislocated past some other passenger's pet duck and her friend, Aliyah, says it's a good luck sign. Poussey and her other friend ask how she knows that and Aliyah responds by saying she knows all about good luck charms which is why she got a shamrock tattoo. Poussey notes it's a four leafage clover that represents proficient luck and the three friends joke around. ("Toast Can't Never Exist Breadstuff Again")

They attend a lodge where they assume legendary neo-soul band The Roots are playing just observe out it's really a white acoustic encompass band. Poussey takes a picture of her friends with her phone but someone snatches information technology and runs out of the club. Poussey takes chase simply loses the thief and gets separated from her friends. She asks people for help, briefly crossing paths with Baxter Bayley as she does so. Poussey approaches two drag queens smoking outside a gild. Miss Blood-red Tide assumes she'll steal the phone only takes compassion on her when she explains her state of affairs. They tell her she's cute and has a classic Whitney Houston vibe about her. They desire her to meet their other queen "Whitney Circa '92" in exchange for her using their phone. She agrees. ("Toast Can't Never Be Bread Again")

The nightclub is unique in that the patrons have to do whatever the large Television set screens instruct. The showtime pedagogy is "perform" and a series of performers have to the phase. There is many screens that tell her to 'osculation,' 'share,' etc. The concluding screen reads "Dance" and Poussey dances the dark away with her drag queen posse. Afterwards outside, Poussey uses her new friend's phone and figures out where she needs to become. She thanks Miss Scarlet Tide for helping her and heads towards her destination. She takes the subway and listens to a drummer and observes a significant woman, a child who robs his mother among others. When the drummer finishes playing, anybody applauds him, so exits the train. ("Toast Can't Never Exist Bread Again")

Poussey, now closer to her destination but still lost, asks for directions and a man tells her she is really five blocks away. She tries to get her bearings as a group of men dressed as monks pull up to the red low-cal on bikes. One can tell she'due south lost and offers to take her to her destination. She laughs and goes, enjoying the bicycle ride. The monks take her to a place nearby and she talks to the ane who offered her the lift. His troupe is not actually a group of monks only performance artists, from all walks of life, portraying other religions. He mentions there are troupes of operation nuns and rabbis too out and nearly. They fume a joint (from her stash, which she states she is going to sell off; likely the reason for her incarceration) and Poussey reveals she was supposed to go to West Point, but attempting to pull a gun on Franziska's male parent got her blackballed. The monk encourages her to stay in New York, instead of leaving for Amsterdam. Poussey is alone in this same location. Having had a wonderful evening, she gazes out at the bay and smiles beautifully. Poussey then breaks the quaternary wall by looking direct at the camera, and smiles once more before the orange closing card signifies the end of the episode. ("Toast Tin't Never Be Breadstuff Again")

Flavor One [ ]

Poussey has been in prison for two years at the start of the series with four years to go. Her female parent died during her second year in prison, equally revealed in "Fool Me Once".

Poussey is a expert-natured jokester and is often seen with her best friend, Taystee, working together in the library or joking around in the rec room or mess hall.

Poussey gives her friends a canteen of her toilet hooch to help them mourn the death of Tricia Miller, revealing her kind nature ("...").

Flavor Seven Flashback [ ]

Taystee receives a telephone call. It'due south Poussey calling to check upward on her. They joke that Taystee has a mansion with 27 rooms and that Poussey, Janae, Blackness Cindy and Suzanne tin stay in that location. Poussey states that fifty-fifty Claudette tin have a room. Taystee tells her things are going okay and she got a chore offering, but tells her that she'southward also tired of struggling. She tells Poussey that she wishes she was back in prison house because at least they'd be together. Poussey tries to comfort her by telling her she doesn't know the future and so tells her about how much information technology hurt when her mom passed. Just that the sharp pain didn't terminal forever, it was somewhen dull. Because of all the good things in her life, to which she says she's talking nearly Taystee.

Flavour One (Continued) [ ]

Poussey is upset with Taystee after she returns to prison. She and Taystee hug and they state they missed eachother.

Poussey forth with The Black Girls perform in the Christmas Play. Poussey begins an unexpected and unplanned solo and Taystee and Cindy sing redundancy for her.

Flavor Two [ ]

It is unsaid that Poussey is in love with Taystee, just the romantic feelings are not returned as Taystee is heterosexual.

Vee approaches Poussey about selling her toilet hooch, but Poussey rejects this idea because she prefers to share it with her friends. She punishes Poussey over this perceived lack of loyalty and loss of potential business concern past exploiting her unreciprocated romantic feelings for Taystee to isolate her from the tribe, causing a rift in Poussey and Taystee's relationship ("A Whole Other Pigsty").

Poussey is ane of the few blackness inmates immune to Vee's manipulation tactics and she begins a campaign to fight Vee'south influence and actions throughout the season. At i point, Suzanne threatens and physically assaults her on Vee's non-exact control, which causes deep emotional trauma. Somewhen, a drunk Poussey causes irreparable damage to Vee's tobacco business organisation past stomping on several tins of tobacco and pouring bleach on them. Realizing that Poussey cannot exist intimidated, Vee decides to mollify her past ejecting Taystee from the gang. Poussey and Taystee later make upwardly later a final confrontation in the library.

Season Three [ ]

On Mother's Twenty-four hours, Poussey is overcome by the memories of her deceased mother, later on which she begins to develop an interest in Gloria and Norma's spiritualism.

Poussey becomes depressed and turns to booze. She besides immerses herself in Suzanne's new sci-fi erotica Time Hump Chronicles. She realizes that she feels so deplorable because she is lonely without a girlfriend. Taystee reassures her that she will always be there for Poussey, merely Poussey states that would not be enough.

Poussey discovers Soso in the library later the latter overdoses on antihistamines. She nurses Soso back to health with Taystee and Suzanne's help. After this incident, Soso is accepted by the Black Girls as one of their ain. Later, Poussey and Soso are seen belongings hands and joking around on the embankment backside Litchfield, implying a budding relationship ("Trust No Bitch").

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Season 4 [ ]

Poussey is charmed when her favorite celebrity chef Judy King is sent to Litchfield. Judy was initially assigned to Poussey's bunk in the Ghetto, but Caputo quickly removes Judy to place her with a white roommate. Poussey is frequently tongue-tied around the friendly Judy, leaving her bemused. At the same time, a romantic relationship between Poussey and Soso developed throughout Season Four, though it was temporarily jeopardized when Soso told Judy Male monarch an offensive and stereotypical (and untrue) narrative of Poussey'southward background to explain Poussey's seemingly odd beliefs around Judy. Later, Poussey and Soso realized that this situation happened because the two did not know each other very well. They resolved to get to know each other'due south backgrounds.

Poussey was accidentally suffocated by CO Bayley at the cease of Season Four during an initially peaceful demonstration in the cafeteria. To protest Captain Piscatella'southward handling of the inmates, inmates stood on tables and demanded his resignation. Suzanne became upset later on additional guards were chosen as support, and Poussey attempted to de-escalate the situation. Piscatella ordered Bayley to restrain Suzanne and escort her to psych, and in the scuffle he improperly restrained Poussey face down while kneeling on her back. Suzanne continued to struggle with Bayley while he was putting all of his weight on Poussey, who was unable to breathe and died. ("The Animals").

After Bayley was pulled off Poussey, the inmates and staff realized that Poussey was not moving. Piscatella called for a medic, and Taystee pushed through the crowd to Poussey's torso on the floor. Taystee began to sob as she curled up next to Poussey on the floor, while others look on in shock. Piscatella ordered a lock downward in which all inmates were confined to their bunks, TV and telephone calls were blacked out, and guards coordinated their version of events. Angered by this morally questionable response to events, Caputo sent Piscatella home, debriefed Bayley, and contacted MCC. It becomes apparent to Caputo, staff, and inmates, that no response plan exists to address a decease in the full general population; Poussey'southward body is left on the deli floor for a twenty-four hour period until the coroner arrives. Poussey's expiry is even more heart-rending when information technology is revealed that she was in prison only every bit a non-fierce offender; she had been convicted of trespassing and possession with intent to sell less than a half ounce of unspecified drugs, probably marijuana, according to her backstory in this same episode. Until that time she had a promising hereafter. She had been accustomed equally a cadet at Due west Signal, which was derailed by the arrest.

Inmates and staff alike appeared shaken past Poussey's expiry. Norma comforted Soso by rocking and singing to her, and Soso later got drunk off the remainder of Poussey'south contraband hooch. Inmates created a makeshift memorial, donating food and giving their condolences. Caputo contacted Poussey's father, General Washington, and was visibly upset at having to do and then.

Season 5 [ ]

Poussey's death continues to be a central issue in this season. Justice, for her, is one of the main demands of the prison riot.

She is seen in a flashback episode, which shows Taystee's offset solar day at Litchfield and how they became friends.

Flavor Six [ ]

Information technology is later on revealed in Season 6 that the riot really made an bear on and some justice for Poussey. When Taystee is in her bunk at Max, she finds and read a paper and finds the section about the anarchism. In the article, it mentions Poussey, saying that the riot started later her death. She is later mentioned when Taystee tells Suzanne almost the newspaper while in the thousand with Black Cindy.

Relationships [ ]

Romantic [ ]

  • Franziska Mertensacker (prior to series start) - Poussey's girlfriend while her father was stationed with the United states of america Army in Germany. When Franziska'south father plant out, he was angry, believing that the two of them needed fixing, and despite Poussey'due south efforts, the relationship concluded.
  • Taystee (best friend; kissed) - Whilst spooning each other, Poussey kissed Taystee. Evidently, she had expressed feelings for Taystee in the past, considering Taystee told Poussey that "We've been through this before." Taystee didn't take the aforementioned romantic feelings and merely wanted to remain best friends.
  • Brook Soso (girlfriend) - Subsequently condign friends and bringing Brook into her circle, they autumn for each other. It's slightly rocky at first, and the ii are unsure how they would last exterior of prison, but determine to make their relationship work, and make plans for their futurity together. After Poussey'due south death, Brook doesn't know how to cope and drives everyone else abroad with her sadness and grief.

Family [ ]

  • James P. Washington (male parent)
  • Mrs. Washington (mother)

Friends [ ]

  • Taystee (best friends; kissed) - Taystee and Poussey are best friends with a shared love of literature. They oft joke around as Amanda and Mackenzie, their "rich white daughter" change egos. Poussey had obvious romantic feelings for Taystee, who is unsure if she feels the same way. In Flavor 2, Taystee joins Vee'south gang selling cigarettes and encourages Poussey to join also. When things sour betwixt Poussey and Vee, the friendship between Poussey and Taystee strains and eventually breaks later Taystee is booted from Vee's gang considering of Poussey'south sabotage. The girls finally settle their differences afterwards a physical confrontation in the library and resume their close friendship. After Poussey's expiry, Taystee tries to ensure she gets justice.
  • Janae Watson - Poussey and Janae share a bunk, and Poussey is known to defend her, especially when it comes to Janae spending inordinate amounts of time in the SHU. When Janae was sent to the SHU for possessing cigarettes in her bunk and returned afterwards a month, Poussey tried to smack some sense into her.
  • Black Cindy - While Taystee was out of prison house and Watson was spending time in the SHU, Cindy and Poussey were seen hanging out quite often. They are both part of the core group of blackness inmates, and are ofttimes seen laughing and joking together.
  • Nicky Nichols - In Season Ane, Poussey and the other black girls brought Nicky and her gang a canteen of toilet hooch with some assorted food items, to assist with the mourning of Tricia Miller. In the library, Nicky is seen asking Poussey for a cigarette. When the alarm goes off and they lie on the floor, Nicky passes the time by advising Poussey about her unrequited honey for Taystee. Later, Poussey witnesses Taystee forcing heroin on Nicky, a recovering addict, and becomes visibly upset by this.
  • Brook Soso (girlfriend) - During the third flavour, Poussey is the only 1 of Norma'south followers to offering Soso sympathy, and calls the others out on bullying her; though she stops defending her when Soso starts interim rude in retaliation to bullying. At the terminate of the season, Poussey, forth with Taystee and the others in their grouping, save Soso's life after her suicide attempt. In the final episode, Poussey reaches out to Soso and takes her paw while swimming in the lake and pulls her into her social circumvolve where the other black girls welcome her.
  • Alison Abdullah
  • Sophia Burset
  • Norma Romano (former)
  • Judy King - She was a fan of Judy King'south testify. She became Judy'southward assistant for her cooking plan and even was given a job by King when she got out. King is very sad she died and later helps ready upward The Poussey Washington Fund with Taystee.
  • Suzanne Warren - Suzanne and Poussey became friends again subsequently they talk and Suzanne apologises. During the peaceful protestation, Poussey helps a mazed Suzanne up. Poussey afterward tries to protect Suzanne from going to Psych, and is put in an awkward position past Bayley. Suzanne tries to salve her by attacking Bayley, but fails. Suzanne subsequently tries to suffocate herself with books to run into what it feels similar to be Poussey.

Enemies [ ]

  • Yvonne "Vee" Parker - Vee and Poussey never got along. When Vee apologized to Taystee with some block as a peace offering, Poussey was visibly hundred-to-one of Vee's sincerity. Poussey unsuccessfully tried to persuade the other girls that Vee shouldn't exist trusted. Poussey tried to befriend Vee in one case for Taystee's sake, only she gave up afterwards discovering Vee's heroin concern. In the stop, Poussey got her friends dorsum and they confronted Vee together.
  • Leanne Taylor - Poussey defects from Norma's cult when Leanne pushes Soso to suicide. The next day she confronts Norma and Leanne, threatening to attack the latter.
  • Jürgen Mertensacker - He was a High german commander on the base of operations where she and her family were stationed. He forcibly concluded Poussey and his daughter'south relationship. Poussey almost pulled a gun on him (unseen by him), afterward which she was stopped past her male parent. The commander also told her begetter that at that place is special therapy for "confused girls like Poussey," just her father retaliated past maxim his daughter is simply fine the way she is.
  • Suzanne Warren (former; after she attempted to attack Vee, Vee ordered Suzanne to beat her. They talk and she forgives Suzanne in Flavour Three)

Memorable Quotes [ ]

"My name is Poussey. Accent à droite, bitch."
— Poussey Washington
"Man, they fuckin' us this way 'cause they know our people's predisposition for hypertension."
— Poussey Washington
"I desire the kind of job where I could just chill, you know."
— Poussey Washington
"Don't ever telephone call a black baby-sit 'Sister'."
— Poussey Washington, to Blackness Cindy
"Y'all're like a pedophile without the sex."
— Poussey Washington, to Vee
"Ya'll there is a main coochie hole then there'south, like, another fiddling hole just for pee."
— Poussey Washington
"Nein, motherfucker, nein."
— Poussey Washington
"I'm gonna make them cry all correct. Make em' cry like they going through a haunted house!
A haunted house called life!"
— Poussey Washington
"Get easy with the bitch smacking."
— Poussey Washington
"We all in here because we took a wrong turn going to church!"
— Poussey Washington
"You look in her eyes and know she's seen some shit."
— Poussey Washington
"Yo, dump your shit! They doin' a sweep!"
— Poussey Washington
"I wasn't even in Bailiwick of jersey when that shit happened!"
— Poussey Washington
"It's abstract yo."
— Poussey Washington
"It's just chilling, y'all know? Kicking it with somebody, talking, making mad stupid jokes.
And, like, not even wanting to go to sleep, 'cause then you might be without 'em for a minute.
And you don't want that."
— Poussey Washington ("Yous Besides Have a Pizza")
"Did e'er occur to y'all that we don't wanna become in touch with our feelings?
That actually feeling our feelings might make it impossible to survive in here?"
— Poussey Washington ("Take a Interruption From Your Values")
"There's no such thing every bit beloved. Dear is but sex without the coin shot."
— Poussey Washington ("Fright, and Other Smells")
"Expect, maybe... this challenges what you lot thought you lot were. And... maybe I'm gonna become my centre broken in a thou different pieces. But those are maybes. You can't alive your life accordin' to maybes."
— Poussey Washington ("Piece of Shit")
"Oh fuck it hurts! Become the fuck off me, man! (mouthed) Help me..."
— Poussey's final words ("The Animals")

Trivia [ ]

  • She's an Aries, as mentioned in "Tall Men with Feelings".
  • She was named after the town of "Poussay" in North-eastern France, where her male parent was stationed when she was born, and oftentimes finds herself on the receiving end of mockery by the other inmates because of its alternative pronunciation.
  • Poussey speaks fluent German which she learned while living in Hohenfels, a U.S. army base in southern Deutschland.
  • She also speaks French.
  • According to the photo Ali posted to twitter, as seen in "Toast Can't Never Be Bread Once again", the picture was posted at 10:20pm in November 2008. As Poussey had been in prison for two years in 2013, this means the time between the flashback and her incarceration was between ii and 3 years. This may be due to court dates, may be a retcon, or may mean that her arrest occurred a while after the events of the flashbacks.
  • She was born in 1990.

Gallery [ ]

Flavour ane [ ]

Promotional Pictures [ ]

Flavour 2 [ ]

Promotional Pictures [ ]

Others [ ]

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Appearances [ ]

Navigation [ ]

Inmate Navigation
Maximum Security Galina Reznikov  •  Lorna Morello  •  Tasha Jefferson  •  Nicky Nichols  •  Frieda Berlin  •  Irene Cabrera  •  Marisol Gonzales  •  Dayanara Diaz  •  Rosalie Deitland  •  Antoinetta Kerson   •  Annalisa Damiva  •  Raquel Munoz  •  Tina Swope  •  Alana Dwight  •  Nicole Eckelcamp  •  Beth Hoefler  •  Maria Ruiz  •  Suzanne Warren  •  Adeola Chinede  •  Charlene Teng  •  Lolly Whitehill  •  Shruti Chambal  •  Elsie  •  Cathy  •  Marie Brock  •  Gail Abbot  •  Silka Webb  •  Aimee Sandoval  •  Amy Roth  •  Kelly Lee Glenna  •  Calloway  •  Claire St. John  •  Mandy Walsh Baker  •  Sally Jo  •  Juanita Vazquez  •  Crystal Tawney  •  Gladys Watkins  •  The Brown Twins  •  Alice Hutton  •  Claudette Pelage  •  Taslitz  •  Aleida Diaz  •  Tali Grapes
FDC Cleveland Alex Vause  •  Carrie Black  •  Carmen Aziza  •  Helen Van Maele  •  Erica Jones  •  Leanne Taylor  •  Angie Rice  •  Janae Watson  •  Alison Abdullah  •  Kasey Sankey  •  Beck Soso  •  Anita DeMarco  •  Gina Murphy
Metropolitan Detention Center Corrine Loma  •  Joyce  •  Felicia  •  Araceli  •  Darius McRae  •  Mazall
Unknown prison house Michelle Carreras  •  Brandy Epps  •  Jennifer Digori  •  Stephanie Hapakuka  •  Rhea Boyle  •  Shelly Ginsberg  •  Lea Guerrera  •  Randolita  •  Reema Pell  •  Jeanie Babson  •  Jayne Cooke  •  Emily Germann  •  Ramona Contreras  •  Madison Murphy
Last seen in Minimum Security Irma Lerman  •  A-Rod  •  Annie Valdez  •  White Cindy  •  Loretta Fisher  • Voth  •  Danita
Released inmates Piper Chapman  •  Stella Carlin  •  Mercy Valduto  •  Sara Rice  •  Linda Ferguson  •  Sophia Burset  •  Jane Ingalls  •  Jimmy Cavanaugh  •  Judy King  •  George Mendez  •  Cesar Velazquez  •  Cindy Hayes  •  Gloria Mendoza  •  Blanca Flores
Deceased inmates Poussey Washington  •  Yvonne Parker  •  Tricia Miller  •  Maureen Kukudio  •  Carol Denning  •  Barbara Denning  •  Rosa Cisneros  •  Dominga Duarte  •  Tiffany Doggett
Deported inmates Maritza Ramos  •  Karla Córdova  •  Shani Abboud  •  Swapna Majumdar  •  Dario Zuniga
ICE inmates Santos Chaj  •  Mei Chang  •  Efua Onagbeboma

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