I met Kathleen at a Bikin Kill show in Phoenix AZ in the mid 90s. I was so inspired by her performance that I started writing a music magazine column about women musicians in the Phoenix area and also created an MSN group in the mid 2000s [pre-social media days] called Chic Rock where I set up a discussion forum for local women musicians to promote their shows and network with each other. I also took photos of and wrote articles about many local Phoenix women musicians as well as other women musicians who traveled to Phoenix from all over the US such as L7, Tribe 8, 7 Year Bitch, the Iron Maidens and some from Canada [Kittie] and the UK, such as Fluffy and Drain STH from Sweden. Fun times! I was glad to have been a part of the "Riot Grrrl" movement! :)
I love you, Kathleen! I was a solo Riot Grrrl starting in 1993. Then I was in Riot Grrrrl San Diego 1998. I still carry the "movement" with me. You have been such a inspiration to me as an artist and a feminist. You rock!!
I completely agree with Kathleen that feminism does not and should not be defined in only one way. Feminism is an expression of an individual person who identifies with being a feminist. There are many different ways to express feminism! :) I think it's really cool that she broke through all the various judgments that caused her to think and feel that she "should" express herself musically in a particular way and decided to go ahead and try something new and different anyway. The best way for artists and musicians to evolve is to experiment with different musical expressions, and music lovers get the benefit of listening to and experiencing all the different styles of music that result.
Well at least there is some sort of good scene in London. The closest city I'm near too is Cambridge and the scene here is so stagnant. Consider yourself lucky.
3:48 I beg someone to tell me who the woman Kathleen is talking about is. I can't understand it, and I'm desperate because I've been trying to find that great pic for months 😫😫😫
I love Kathleen Hanna, but she is very pretty and very, very charming and outgoing, besides her greatest talent of Art/Rock. So I doubt that she was oppressed or ever was treated with anything, or in anyway but with effection, and interest from the opposite sex? With of course the exception of the assholes that we all have to deal with as a result of living life; assholes are not exlusive to any race or sex mind you. The Riot Girrl Movement was cool, and should not be under sold. But Music should always hold priority to politics or any other influence. I see the damage that intersectionalism has done to our country, and the destruction dischord it has caused. It makes people judge each other based on race/class/sex visavis victimhood as a score one tallies like your score in a bowling game. And other than it's defeatist premiss, it's a fuc$%ng major bummer, that seems to pray on the clinically insane, the very sensitive and post pubesant, or those with a bowling score that's 200+. Why look at who's oppressing us, when there's so many more people encouraging and supporting all of us? But youth has not this wisdom. Either way, I personally could care less about Evergreen State College's bullshit radicalism. It's sells a form of negativity(i've seen up close and in person) that breeds people who become more miserable and destructive until they light things on fire and hurt people or realize the only way to be happy to any degree is drop the negitive-creep-indoctrination and be a human fu$king being. Le Tigre is one of the best (rock/punk/synth/techno-)rock groups of the 2000's(+). I remember seeing them on Conan for the first time, it was unreal and cooler than almost anything else I'd seen on that very biggest of stages. I have the origanal vinal on Mr Lady Records(even read their artical in Diva Magazine, and I'm a straight white male of THE PATRIACHY, but im not a square). Le Tigre impressed me based on talent and merit alone, in a setting that did not afford the time to get political anymore that using a T-shirt for a billboard. The song Les and Ray is cry-worthy, and a piece of human expression of the highest order. FUC$ THE NEGATIVITY, bring us the music.
I love KH but let’s have a reality check! An amazing artist with a great catalog that would still require a day job of sorts. In feminist fashion she married well so now she can enjoy life and her art. One step away from a trust fund baby
@@rumrnr78 you just said she’s not successful enough to do this as a career but long before she met her husband she was making it a career. Smh anti feminism is gross
