<div dir="ltr"><div>Incredible piece! Also note that our own Golden Owens just published a brilliant article in Flow last month or so -- <a href="https://www.flowjournal.org/2025/10/robotic-slaves-and-where-to-find-them-racialized-servitude-in-the-jetsonsgolden-m-owens-university-of-washington/">https://www.flowjournal.org/2025/10/robotic-slaves-and-where-to-find-them-racialized-servitude-in-the-jetsonsgolden-m-owens-university-of-washington/</a> -- UW CMS flows strong in <i>Flow!</i></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Dec 8, 2025 at 6:46 PM Jennifer Bean via Cmsfaculty <<a href="mailto:cmsfaculty@u.washington.edu">cmsfaculty@u.washington.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">



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CMS Friends— I just came across this wonderful piece by our very own Diana Ruiz, published last week in the latest issue of
<i>Flow</i>, and am compelled to share.  0n “swamp slop and fake moats”… brilliant and terrifying all at once.  Hats off to Diana…. JB
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<div dir="ltr">Jennifer M. Bean
<div>Associate Professor of Cinema and Media Studies </div>
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<div>Editor-in-Chief, <i>Feminist Media Histories: An International Journal</i></div>
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