An electric, searing memoir by the original rebel girl and
legendary frontwoman of Bikini Kill and Kathleen Hanna’s rallying
cry to feminists echoed far and wide through the punk scene of the
1980s, ’90s, and beyond. Her band, Bikini Kill, embodies this
iconic time, and today their gutsy, radical lyrics of anthems like
‘Rebel Girl’ and ‘Double Dare Ya’ are more powerful than
ever. But where did this transformative voice come from? In Rebel
Girl, Hanna’s raw and insightful new memoir, she takes us from
her tumultuous childhood home, to her formative college years in
Olympia, Washington, and on to her first years on tour, fighting
hard for gigs and for her band. As Hanna makes blindingly clear,
being in a ‘girl band’, especially a punk girl band, in those
years was not a simple or a safe prospect. Male violence and
antagonism threatened at every turn, and surviving as a band took
limitless amounts of grit and bravery. But the relationships she
developed during those years buoyed her – including with her
bandmates Tobi Vail, Kathi Wilcox, and Billy Karren; her friendship
with Kurt Cobain; and her introduction to Joan Jett – and they
were a testament to how the true punk world nurtured and cared for
its own. Hanna opens up about falling in love with Ad-Rock of the
Beastie Boys and her debilitating battle with Lyme disease, and she
brings us behind the scenes of her later bands, Le Tigre and The
Julie Ruin. She also writes candidly about the Riot Grrrl movement
and its decline, documenting with love its grassroots origins but
critiquing its later exclusivity. In an uncut voice all her own,
Hanna reveals the darkest, hardest times along with the most joyful
– and how it all fuelled her revolutionary art, from the 1980s to
today.
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