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…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
Table of Contents
Letter from the Editors
“If Your Girl Only Knew: Missy Elliott’s Offstage Sonic World” by Jessica Lynne
“Self Portrait as Aretha’s Gold Purse” by Brittany Rogers
“Crate Digging in the Freelance Files: An Interview with Sheila Maldonado” by Carina del Valle Schorske
“Showtime’s Here: Litefeet’s Lady Legends” by Shamira Ibrahim
“Performance Studies” by Kyle Carrero Lopez
“Inside the Loop: On Chanting, Houston, & Solange as Producer” by Joy Priest
“Shoot Your Shot: An Interview with Alice Arnold” by Michael A. Gonzales
“Girlhood or, So What if Diamond is a Stripper Name” by Joseph Earl Thomas
“Perreodistas en coro: Tracing the Roots of Reggaeton Journalism” by Isabelia Herrera
“Love Up On Them: An Interview with Sheena Lester” by Miles Marshall Lewis
“Grief is a Many-Headed Monster: A Mixtape” by Kristina Kay Robinson
“A Literary History of My Romance” by Harmony Holiday
…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
Table of Contents
Letter from the Editors
“If Your Girl Only Knew: Missy Elliott’s Offstage Sonic World” by Jessica Lynne
“Self Portrait as Aretha’s Gold Purse” by Brittany Rogers
“Crate Digging in the Freelance Files: An Interview with Sheila Maldonado” by Carina del Valle Schorske
“Showtime’s Here: Litefeet’s Lady Legends” by Shamira Ibrahim
“Performance Studies” by Kyle Carrero Lopez
“Inside the Loop: On Chanting, Houston, & Solange as Producer” by Joy Priest
“Shoot Your Shot: An Interview with Alice Arnold” by Michael A. Gonzales
“Girlhood or, So What if Diamond is a Stripper Name” by Joseph Earl Thomas
“Perreodistas en coro: Tracing the Roots of Reggaeton Journalism” by Isabelia Herrera
“Love Up On Them: An Interview with Sheena Lester” by Miles Marshall Lewis
“Grief is a Many-Headed Monster: A Mixtape” by Kristina Kay Robinson
“A Literary History of My Romance” by Harmony Holiday