“While I was precedent-setting at one time with Righteous Babe and my indie crusade, I feel like, in the time it took me to nurse another baby into being, I’ve fallen behind,” she says.

“An underlying theme in the songs, and in the feminism I want to engage society with, is the idea that autonomy is a fallacy—nothing exists except in relationship to something else.At a time of global chaos and confusion, Di Franco is kicking ass and taking names, with a set of songs offering a wide range of perspective and musical scope.