Ebook: No walls and the recurring dream: a memoir

"A memoir by the celebrated singer-songwriter and social activist Ani DiFranco. In her new memoir, Ani DiFranco recounts her early life from a place of hard-won wisdom, combining personal expression, the power of music, feminism, political activism, storytelling, philanthropy, entrepreneurship, and much more into an inspiring whole. In these frank, honest, passionate, and often funny pages is the tale of one woman's eventful and radical journey to the age of thirty. Ani's coming of age story is defined by her ethos of fierce independence -- from being an emancipated minor sleeping in a Buffalo bus station, to unwaveringly building a career through appearances at small clubs and festivals, to releasing her first album at the age of 18, to consciously rejecting the mainstream recording industry and creating her own label, Righteous Babe Records. In these pages, as in life, she never hesitates to challenge established rules and expectations, maintaining a level of artistic integrity that has impressed many and antagonized more than a few. Ani continues to be a major touring and recording artist as well as a celebrated activist and feminist, standing as living proof that you can overcome all personal and societal obstacles to be who you are and to follow your dreams." --;Introducing... -- Self evident -- No walls -- Pedigree -- Plans -- Martin Luther -- Exposure -- Names -- The lake -- Dancing -- Hello friend -- And hello friend -- Making songs 1 -- Gigging -- Emancipation -- The big apple -- The unread note -- Suzi -- Precipice -- Reproductive system -- Silences -- 760 Ashland Avenue -- Scot Fisher -- Talent contest -- Wildcat builders -- The road not taken -- Making songs 2 -- My other other voice -- If you can make it there... -- Eponymous debut -- Traveling salesmen -- Pay to play -- Strays -- Too good to be true -- Now voyager -- The new school for social research -- Boopha -- Sekou -- Racist bullshit -- Activation -- Pete Seeger -- The new frontier -- The lone star state -- Unwelcome home -- Once more with feeling -- The slant -- My IQ -- Beauty and the beast -- Californiiay -- Reverse objectification -- Up a notch -- Typhoid Mary -- The changing of the guard -- Andy -- Water water everywhere -- Is Chicago, is not Chicago -- I.R.S. -- Rendezvous -- Mexico -- Mish -- Folk festivals -- Utah -- The alphabet vs the goddess -- Making songs 3 -- A record of an event -- The boob tube -- A mother's work -- It's not an adventure, it's a job -- Merch -- Goat -- Heidi ho -- Chick singers -- Hitchfest -- Arbitration -- Italia -- Spewing chunks -- Muscle cars -- Excuse me, Ms.? -- Rebirth -- Grand Canyon -- The Guthrie archives -- Nora -- Cultural equity -- Fellow workers -- A matter of life and death -- Maceo -- Making songs 4 -- A prince among men -- Photo shoots -- Longstory short -- Why are you getting so mad? -- Grey -- The crash -- Late night -- Subdivision -- The shock was subsonic -- Crash number two -- Platforms -- Platforms -- Making songs 5 -- Akimbo -- Whole other girls -- Imagine that -- Other people's trash -- Recurring dream.