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Kathleen Hanna
Kathleen Hanna
American Musician
Born: Nov 12, 1969
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In 1985, I was living with my sister in Virginia, and since I was still in high school, I worked at McDonald's to save money to get an abortion. It sounds really terrible, but it was the best decision I ever made. It was the first time I took responsibility for my actions. I messed up, had sex without contraception, and got pregnant at 15. Kathleen Hanna
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I'm just working and having a good time and seeing what develops, which is so awesome, because you don't know what's going to happen, and I'm letting myself do that a lot more than I ever have. Kathleen Hanna
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There's just as many different kinds of feminism as there are women in the world. Kathleen Hanna
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It's really funny - when I'm depressed or I'm having a hard time, I'll write really fun stuff. And then when I'm really happy, I write really depressing stuff. Kathleen Hanna
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I wanna be a legend; I wanna be a cult hero. I do! Kathleen Hanna
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You don't have to have magic unicorn powers. You work at it, and you get better. It's like anything: You sit there and do it every day, and eventually you get good at it. Kathleen Hanna
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Art revolves around creating something that isn't there. Kathleen Hanna
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I was in a band in the '90s called Bikini Kill, and we were so freaked out about documentation then, and there was the whole thing, not just about the male gaze, but that people were going to misrepresent you... a kind fear of the mainstream that a lot of us had. Kathleen Hanna
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People have always had these weird things about how you have to be really good looking to be a singer. Kathleen Hanna
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In terms of men being feminist allies, it's just important to speak from your own place. I'd love to hear men singing about masculinity and the damage it does to them. Kathleen Hanna
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I can't constantly be trying to write the unwritten song, the song that the 15-year-old girl needs. I need to write the song that I need. Kathleen Hanna
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You learn that the only way to get rock-star power as a girl is to be a groupie and bare your breasts and get chosen for the night. We learn that the only way to get anywhere is through men. And it's a lie. Kathleen Hanna
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I felt it was really, really important, not just in the vein of feminist erasure or whatever but also just as an artist that I honored my work. Kathleen Hanna
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So many women have experienced horrific forms of male violence throughout their lives, and why isn't there a song about how you get depressed because of it? Kathleen Hanna
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I really like to talk about my work in a way that is complicated. Kathleen Hanna
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I just write what I want to write. Kathleen Hanna
Write Just Want
It's unexpected for women's issues to be brought up in places other than women's centers on college campuses or crisis places. Kathleen Hanna
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Feminism rotates between backlash and interest. And the cool thing about the Internet is that it's allowing women more access to their own history. Part of the problem before the Internet was that we didn't know which books to read. Someone had to tell you. Kathleen Hanna
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Facing sexism and racism and classism and transphobia, there are ways to choose to act in those situations, and there shouldn't be a prescriptive list of things that you have to say. Kathleen Hanna
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Sometimes, being a feminist artist, there are times where I'm in a position where I just want to feel like I'm saying all the right things politically, or I feel like I have to mention my own project over other people's projects. But I don't do that anymore. I just want to be off the cuff and honest. Kathleen Hanna
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I feel so lucky that I met the love of my life. You know somebody's in it to win it when they're changing your IV bag or you're having a seizure and they're holding you. And helping you to the bathroom. You know that they love you. Kathleen Hanna
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I always tell girls who say they want to start a band but don't have any talent, 'Well, neither do I.' I mean, I can carry a tune, but anyone who picks up a bass can figure it out. You don't have to have magic unicorn powers. Kathleen Hanna
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I go to lectures and girls are finding out about Bikini Kill or Le Tigre for the first time and are like,' This is my jam!' It still feels fresh to them. Kathleen Hanna
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I like loud snare, and I like really treble-y guitars, and that's just never going to change. Kathleen Hanna
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If people are like, 'Oh, you're an icon,' then whatever. But who thinks of themselves like that? It's not like I have posters of myself on the wall. Kathleen Hanna
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To make riot grrrl move into the future in a new way with a bunch of new names and a bunch of new energy, younger people have to learn about it and apply it to their own lives and own modern conversation. And they are. Kathleen Hanna
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