Wanted/Needed/Loved: Kathleen Hanna’s Girl Style, Then and Now
I was entranced, wondering who made it and why.
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Posts Tagged: Kathleen Hanna
The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #66: Reimagining Children’s Literature as Mixtape
In the best collaborations, creative individuals push themselves to work with new media and singular, wild things issue forth. Jeff Antebi of Waxploitation Records has managed to create just this kind of magic in his book, Stories for Ways and Means. A product of ten years’ worth of seeking and story pitching, Stories for Ways […]
...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 […]
...moreLe Tigre Reunites to Say “I’m With Her”
Le Tigre released what they announced would be a one-song reunion: a pro-Hillary track aptly titled “I’m With Her.” Although there is some mentioning of the need to get Trump out of our political reality stat, Kathleen Hanna’s lyrics focus on Clinton’s qualifications and how “she’s always got to work twice as hard as any man.” Watch the […]
...moreKathleen Hanna Covers The Boss
Kathleen Hanna contributed a cover to Bruce Springsteen’s “Dancing in the Dark” for the upcoming film Maggie’s Plan, Consequence of Sound reports. Apparently Hanna also makes a cameo in the film, leading some therapeutic tribal chants. Check out the cover after the jump.
...moreThis Week in Posivibes: Seth Bogart
The Hunx & His Punx frontman released his self-titled solo debut via Burger Records last Friday, and it’s excellent. Featuring Kathleen Hanna, Tavi Gevinson, Cherry Glazerr, and Chela, the album is heavier on the synths than Bogart’s other projects and is produced by Cole MGN (Ariel Pink, Julia Holter). Pitchfork calls the album “queasy, vaguely illicit, and beautiful on the […]
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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.
...moreOn Missing A Bikini Kill Show
It’s not just punk clubs in small towns that are fragile ecosystems. All the worlds we inhabit are malleable places, made and destroyed and made again. The Toast has a magnificent piece by Jessanne Collins on the riot-grrrl world as she saw it in 1994 at age 15. It vibrates with the earnest passion of […]
...moreProcess Talk
At Bomblog, writer Melissa Febos and musician Kathleen Hanna discuss the creative process, collaboration versus doing it alone, writing about sex work, nasty online commenters, and more. “Even while I was doing things I knew were provocative, and were meant to be provocative in certain ways, still it was so painful to think, Why don’t […]
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