This Woman's Work: An Aster(ix) Anthology, Winter 2026 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781942547259)

This Woman's Work: A Listening Session chronicles the feminine and feminized labor behind-the-scenes in hip hop and reggaeton:

(rank misogyny aside) / What About Us / my squad in a burned-out building on Adams and Crenshaw / Giant Step / Save the Robots / a blood-blue Farrah Fawcett wig / I miss magazines / scrambled eggs and quenepas / tiny silver halter tops / she used to fuck with my dude / if I am an archive / get a bitch to translate / te he querido, te he llorado / gliding backwards at the Crystal Palace / Princess Loko / Shirley Brown / no time to funk around / my twins on my back / spinning the block / estranged from the choir / perreo-distas en coro / encore, encore, more more more / the alto section / the mark of the plural / Carolina / Canóvanas / Chicken Noodle Soup / to sell your life story / -hand out, palm up- / the slender complexities / the scholarly KoolAid / storm or no storm / our affair's endless syllabus / a blown speaker, a fumbled aux cord / the girl get them girls / and then we hit Play