As she chronicles the decisions that produced the band’s grunge-era breakthrough—which was released just days after Kurt Cobain’s suicide—Crawford writes movingly about the effect these songs had on herself and on other women around the world … In that regard, the album’s anger and ferocious self-determination haven’t diminished in two decades.

Stephen M. Deusner, Pitchfork, ‘The 33 best 33 1/3s’

[Crawford] … makes a formidable case for the album itself, presenting it as a manifesto of positive, alternative, grassroots feminism, a feminism that has nothing to do with positive adjustment, good taste, or middle-class-ness, and in which self-confidence is born of exclusion—for being a woman, for being queer, for living on the periphery.

Agata Pyzik, n+1

Pitchfork, “The 33 best 33 1/3s”

Live Through This on the Bloomsbury Academic podcast

An interview with ABC Radio National

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Published in 2015 by Bloomsbury