*New Review of Film and Television Studies* Volume 21, Special Issue 2: Queer/Trans Media Now *Dear Colleagues, * *Ushering in Pride Month, it is our pleasure to announce the publication of our Summer 2023 Special Issue “Queer/Trans Media Now” (vol. 21.2), guest edited by NRFTS’s incoming Editor in Chief Matt Connolly and featuring articles by Clara Bradbury-Rance (Open Access), Lauren Herold, Paige Macintosh, Sergio Rigoletto, Zoë Shacklock, Sarah E.S. Sinwell, Gabriel Kitofi Tonelo, and Alex Zivkovic, along with 2022 SCMS Queer & Trans Caucus Chris Holmlund Graduate Student Writing Prize awardee Míša Stekl’s winning essay “Queer Times in Moonlight.” Please see the Table of Contents <https://nrftsjournal.us21.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ef14de7a9f41be1b0c21cad65&id=24038ee53e&e=43efb8bf57> for article abstracts as well as a list of book reviews by Angie Fazekas, Ash Kinney d’Harcourt, * *and Henry Powell. Our 2023 cycle of the Holmlund Prize is now underway, with submissions due October 1; see the award guidelines <https://nrftsjournal.us21.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ef14de7a9f41be1b0c21cad65&id=fed43913be&e=43efb8bf57> and please help us get the word out to current graduate students/QTC members working in queer/trans cinema/media studies.* *In other exciting news, we’re delighted to share that the 2023 SCMS Television Studies SIG Graduate Student Essay Contest <https://nrftsjournal.us21.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ef14de7a9f41be1b0c21cad65&id=503b73a664&e=43efb8bf57> has a winner: Betsy Walters, PhD Candidate in the American and New England Studies Program at Boston University, whose prize-winning article “‘Throwing Shows Against the Wall and Hoping for the Best': NBC, Quality, and the Emmy Race for Outstanding Drama Series in the 2010s” will be published in our Winter 2023 issue. * *Congratulations are also in order for this year’s two runners-up: Felicity Flesher (MA student, Library and Information Science, UCLA) for “The Female Frontier: The Lady Screenwriters Who Trailblazed the Television West,” and Amber Hardiman (PhD Candidate, Film, Television, & Media, University of Michigan) for “Witnessing, Testimony, and the Television Documentary Mode: Showtime's We Need to Talk About Cosby (2022) & the Undoing of Categorical Guilt with Black-Feminist Theory.” Bravo all around, and thank you to all who submitted and to our prize co-sponsors the Television Studies SIG peer reviewers and officers for their efforts and support jurying and facilitating this year’s prize.* *We’re also excited to announce the launch of our NRFTS podcast <https://nrftsjournal.us21.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ef14de7a9f41be1b0c21cad65&id=c1a1b1f4d7&e=43efb8bf57>, where you can listen to this recent conversation between Why Theory co-hosts Ryan Engley and Todd McGowan on TV's bottle episodes, a tie-in to Engley’s forthcoming article "The Limitation of the Bottle Episode: Hegel in Community.”* *Last but not least, and definitely not to be ignored, over on the NRFTS Blog is Suzanne Leonard’s review <https://nrftsjournal.us21.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ef14de7a9f41be1b0c21cad65&id=4986874af1&e=43efb8bf57> of the 2023 Fatal Attraction reboot.** We welcome your pitches/proposals for blog contributions at [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>.* *For latest news and content, follow us on our social media accounts and subscribe to our newsletter via the buttons below. 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