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And again and again, they call her out for her entitlement -- to attention, to a platform, to funding, to favors. This is not a plea to let her off the hook or release her from accountability.

In a media landscape that typically reduces women to paragons or villains with strikingly little middle ground, Palmer is a self-styled anti-hero, from her feuds with the record industry to her Wicked Queen eyebrows.

And it's worth noting that the actions for which Palmer is attacked most often and most harshly tend to be the ones that conflict with what public femininity is supposed to look like -- behaviors and traits that would often sit differently on the shoulders of a male performer. After all, women are supposed to be nice. Issues with ownership of the work those fans create for free surfaced briefly, before dissipating just as quickly.

This Althing includes updates on the upcoming abortion podcast episodes and events. PS: You may or…. Amanda does everything on her own terms simply by asking. Now, she turns the tables on her colleagues and heroes to find out how they create art, love difficult people, work for change, and survive the worst moments of their lives. From porn stars to empathy researchers, and cartoonists to climate scientists, no topic is out of bounds. Amanda Palmer sounds, in a word, normal.

For most of this book, Amanda Palmer is talking about the one thing she is known least for: Making music.

How she formed her band, how she promoted her band, why she signed to a major label, why she left it. Amanda Palmer, as it turns out, is arguing for the right to make very specific, potentially alienating records that some people love, rather than making very broad, very safe albums that everybody likes. This point is correct, necessary and important. Musicians should be making it.

The problem is that the person making it is Amanda Palmer. I listened to it. But instead, she became Amanda Palmer. And what the album sounded like never became part of the conversation. The other thing one learns from this book is that and nearly broke this woman.

She hit a rough patch in her marriage as the result of her post-abortion depression. Her best friend was diagnosed with leukemia. While on the Theatre is Evil tour, she was sexually assaulted by a fan.

And, oh, yeah, she had a blog. On one level, this is pure guilt trip: All of this happened to me, and you still held me accountable for my words and actions, you monsters. And at the end of that process, Amanda Palmer got abuse and death threats. Careless use of power cuts both ways, as it turns out. Or for music. Or for media: The fact of the matter is, a woman in her mid-thirties wrote, performed and released an album that was musically relevant and probably her best work to date; we responded by talking about her body, her personality and who she was sleeping with.