Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

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'A roadmap for a new generation' VOGUE'Radical, funny and fearless' VANITY FAIR'Gripping' NYLONAn electric, searing memoir by the original Riot Grrrl and legendary frontwoman of Bikini Kill and Le Tigre
Kathleen HannaaEURO (TM)s rallying cry to feminists echoed far and wide through the punk scene of the 1980s, aEURO (TM)90s, and beyond. Her band, Bikini Kill, embodies this iconic time, and today their gutsy, radical lyrics of anthems like aEURO~Rebel GirlaEURO (TM) and aEURO~Double Dare YaaEURO (TM) are more powerful than ever. But where did this transformative voice come from?

In Rebel Girl, HannaaEURO (TM)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 aEURO~girl bandaEURO (TM), 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 aEURO" including with her bandmates Tobi Vail, Kathi Wilcox, and Billy Karren; her friendship with Kurt Cobain; and her introduction to Joan Jett aEURO" 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 aEURO" and how it all fuelled her revolutionary art, from the 1980s to today.

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN13: 9780008361891
Published: May 2024

Number of pages: 304
Width: 153 mm
Height: 234 mm
Depth: 27 mm

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers