BINARYFearless singer, songwriter, activist, and self made businesswoman Ani DiFranco has remained remarkably steadfast and devoted to the independent ethos that first guided her when she started out in 1990. Seemingly predisposed to go against the grain, she formed her own record label at the age of 18 not because other labels rejected her, but because even then she was aware that her brazen, politically charged, feminist anti folk required its own system.