[image: Flow logo] A new issue of *Flow* is live! The journal is proud to announce the publication of issue 26.01, a Special Issue entitled "New Faces, New Voices, New Bodies: Current Thoughts on Media Representations." We are excited to have contributions from authors Susan McFarlane-Alvarez, Shearon Roberts, Matthew H. Brittingham, Lisa Funnell, Danielle Seid, Andrew Gilmore, Mihaela Mihailova, and Christina M. Knopf. Please see below for more details about the authors' respective columns. As always, be sure to join the conversation at www.flowjournal.org <http://flowjournal.org/>! [image: NAME1 pic] Susan McFarlane-Alvarez, "'Go Back Where You Come From!': Aesthetic Identity, 'This Land' and 'Old Town Road'" Through a close analysis of Gary Clark Jr.’s “This Land” and Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road,” Susan McFarlane-Alvarez locates important negotiations of what constitutes belonging and country (western). Read <http://www.flowjournal.org/2019/09/go-back-where-you-came-from/> and Tweet using #FlowJournal26 <https://twitter.com/hashtag/FlowJournal26> [image: NAME2 pic] Shearon Roberts, "#NotMyAriel: Safe Race-Swapping and the Casting of a Black Woman as Fish" With the casting announcement of Halle Bailey as Ariel in Disney's live-action adaptation of *The Little Mermaid*, Shearon Roberts analyzes the recent history of race-swapping in Disney films. Read <http://www.flowjournal.org/2019/09/not-my-ariel/> and Tweet using #FlowJournal26 <https://twitter.com/hashtag/FlowJournal26> [image: NAME3 pic] Matthew H. Brittingham, "A Bachelorette F***ing in a Windmill" Looking at the battle between Hannah and Luke on *The Bachelorette*, Matthew H. Brittingham examines the complicated intersection of faith and sex in American reality television. Read <http://www.flowjournal.org/2019/09/a-bachelorette-effing-in-a-windmill/> and Tweet using #FlowJournal26 <https://twitter.com/hashtag/FlowJournal26> [image: NAME4 pic] Lisa Funnell, "Nomi/No Me?: Race, Gender, and Power in *No Time to Die*" Lisa Funnell asserts that the casting of a Black woman as 007 in the next James Bond installment reveals growing anxieties about minorities claiming more institutional and economic power. Read <http://www.flowjournal.org/2019/09/nomi-no-me/> and Tweet using #FlowJournal26 <https://twitter.com/hashtag/FlowJournal26> [image: NAME5 pic] Danielle Seid, "Television is Burning: Revolutionary Queer and Trans Representation on TV" Danielle Seid offers a close reading of FX’s *Pose* and the ways it brings revolutionary queer and trans representations to TV. Read <http://www.flowjournal.org/2019/09/television-is-burning/> and Tweet using #FlowJournal26 <https://twitter.com/hashtag/FlowJournal26> [image: NAME6 pic] Andrew Gilmore, "*Strangers*: Using the Small Screen to Expose Mainlandization" Andrew Gilmore takes up Amazon’s *Strangers* to reveal the ways the show addresses the mainlandization of Hong Kong and the rising tide of protests against the CPC’s influence. Read <http://www.flowjournal.org/2019/09/strangers-mainlandization/> and Tweet using #FlowJournal26 <https://twitter.com/hashtag/FlowJournal26> [image: NAME5 pic] Mihaela Mihailova, "In Toon with the Times: Diversity in American Commercial Animation" Mihaela Mihailova brings attention to the diversity problem in animation—both on screen and in the industry—and examines a crop of contemporary programs responding to the call. Read <http://www.flowjournal.org/2019/09/in-toon-with-the-times/> and Tweet using #FlowJournal26 <https://twitter.com/hashtag/FlowJournal26> [image: NAME5 pic] Christina M. Knopf, "Queer Female Superheroes: DC Comics Bombshells Tell Their Own Story" Christina M. Knopf examines the industrial trajectory of DC Comics Bombshells, an all-female comic series that uses wartime premises to assert shifting gender roles and sexualities and foreground women in civic life and public spaces. Read <http://www.flowjournal.org/2019/09/queer-female-superheroes/> and Tweet using #FlowJournal26 <https://twitter.com/hashtag/FlowJournal26> *Flow* is a critical forum on media and culture published by the Department of Radio, Television, and Film <http://rtf.utexas.edu> at the University of Texas at Austin <http://www.utexas.edu>. *Flow*'s mission is to provide a space where scholars and the public can discuss media histories, media studies, and the changing landscape of contemporary media. For more information: [image: Facebook] <https://www.facebook.com/FlowTV> [image: Twitter] <https://twitter.com/FlowTV?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor> Previous Issue <http://www.flowjournal.org/archives/25/25-08/> / Search *Flow* <http://flowjournal.org/?s=> / Email the editors <[log in to unmask] Flow Editors> ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.ScreenSite.org