Rumpus Exclusive: “Pirate Radio, Like Desire”
Always I want to be seen. Always to burn.
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Posts Tagged: Bikini Kill
Wanted/Needed/Loved: Kathleen Hanna’s Girl Style, Then and Now
I was entranced, wondering who made it and why.
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Just Chaste Me
The more first-time stories I heard, the longer I was willing to wait.
...moreThe Honesty of Kathleen Hanna
Kathleen Hanna sat down with VICE’s Kim Taylor Bennett and immediately began a very honest and powerful discussion of her experience with tokenism, how we won’t live in a post-sexist world until the rape crisis hotline stops ringing off the hook and women’s shelter rooms aren’t packed, and the incredibly difficult work of unpacking the damage perpetrated by […]
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(K)ink: Writing While Deviant: Tina Horn
I would go so far as to say that the entire reason I write is to detect all the irony that language allows and twist it around the truth like razor wire and ivy. That’s how I like my truth: twisted.
...moreAll Bikini Kill News is Good News
The band formative for all things riot grrrl has announced it’s releasing the 1991 demo Revolution Girl Style Now! on vinyl, CD, tape, and electronically. Previously only available on cassette and in seriously small, self-released quantities, the reissue is slated for September 22nd on the band’s own Bikini Kill Records. This edition includes three unreleased […]
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The Rumpus Interview with Kathleen Hanna
Frontwoman of seminal ’90s punk band Bikini Kill, experimental multimedia group Le Tigre, and now The Julie Ruin, Kathleen Hanna talks about how her music is about herself, now more than ever, and what it’s like to be considered an iconic leader of the Riot Grrrl movement.
...moreWhat the Girls Call ‘Murder’
A funny thing happened on the way to the “angry grrrl rock revolution which seeks to save the psychic and cultural lives of girls and women everywhere”…
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