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Kathleen Hanna (born November 12, 1968) is an American singer, musician and pioneer of the feminist punk riot grrrl movement, and punk zine writer. She is the lead singer of feminist punk band Bikini Kill [ 2 ] [ 3 ] and fronted the electropunk band Le Tigre in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
Kathleen Hanna was the lead singer for Bikini Kill and a prominent figure in the feminist punk “Riot Grrrl” movement. According to the U.K. publication Far Out, Hanna and Love were involved in ...
Kathleen Hanna's memoir, 'Rebel Girl,' is a bold portrait: a crucial book about feminist politics and art and a tender examination of a woman who survived abuse and sexual assault.
The band signed with Mr. Lady Records, a label founded in San Francisco by Hanna's friend Tammy Rae Carland and her then-girlfriend Kaia Wilson. Hanna called the signing "a logical choice" because of the label's greater political commitment over their music releases. [10] The band's first album, Le Tigre, was released in October 1999. The band ...
The title derives from a phrase written on Cobain's wall by his friend Kathleen Hanna, singer of the riot grrrl band Bikini Kill: "Kurt smells like Teen Spirit." [12] [13] Hanna meant that Cobain smelled like the deodorant Teen Spirit, which she and Tobi Vail, his then-girlfriend, had discovered during a trip to the grocery store. [14]
The Bikini Girl frontwoman discusses how her concept of feminism has evolved since the '90s and why there's no such thing as a "post-feminist society."
However, Kathleen Hanna stated directly that she supported trans rights on her own Twitter account. [153] Additionally, JD Samson, another former member of Le Tigre, is genderfluid. [154] Kathleen Hanna acknowledged some of these critiques in her zine April Fools' Day. When describing her traumas related to addiction, she said: "It seems to me ...
Few artists have a neat origin story, but Kathleen Hanna, the feminist punk pioneer and celebrated frontwoman whose rallying cry of “girls to the front” inspired generations, may have a pretty convincing one. While in college in the late '80s, Hanna signed up for a writers' workshop led by her hero, the postmodern novelist Kathy Acker.