[img = two shelves of zines in a zine library]

first time one of my zines has ever been on the same shelf as one of KATHLEEN HANNA’S

7:51 pm  •  24 April 2012  •  24 notes

dear kathleen hanna - i sent you my zines & a letter as an exercise in non-attachment (i’m almost 25 & it’s about damn time i learn to kill my idols). still, i wish i knew a way to figure out whether or you not even got my package (cuz, like, at least fifteen zines in that batch got lost in the mail). are you rejecting me ‘cuz you think my zines are shit, or do you not know i exist?

12:59 pm  •  9 February 2012  •  8 notes

technicolourteacup:

girlsgetbusyzine:

Original riot grrrl Kathleen Hanna has kept busy as of late, recording a new album with her band the Julie Ruin, spinning records at museums, and making contributions to academia. Turns out she’s got another project on her plate: designing the set for Neal Medlyn’s Wicked…

I hope it involves the band members playing with magnets at some point…

okay, this is awesome.

(Source: pitchfork.com)

3:53 pm  •  25 January 2012  •  177 notes

[img = excited white girl holding kathleen hanna’s “my life with evan dando popstar” zine]

OH. MY. FRIGGING. GAWD.

I just checked my mail & look what I got! My rad librarian pal Kate knew that my favorite zine of all time is Kathleen Hanna’s My Life With Evan Dando Popstar (which I quoted earlier today btw) & SO SHE MAILED ME A PACKAGE W THE ORIGINAL COPY KATHLEEN ONCE HANDED HER AS A GIFT!!!!!!!!!!!!

AMAZING!!!!!!!!

8:03 pm  •  9 January 2012  •  25 notes

“

I know why Valerie Solanis shot Warhol and not the president — cuz everyone knows politicians are corrupt BUT Warhol was trying to act like he was questioning notions of fine art (transcendance, biological determinism) thru the imitation of mechanical reproduction. {The destruction of the master artist via technology} ONLY Warhol was for real exploiting certain people (workers) and certain Revolutionary concepts IN ORDER TO buy himself two thousand dollar “Black Mammy” cookie jars.

Valerie Solanis shot Warhol to stop co-optation and also to be funny.

”

— Kathleen Hanna, My Life With Evan Dando Popstar

11:56 am  •  9 January 2012  •  189 notes

thejulieruin:

First official band photo!  yeah!!!!

In Photo L to R: Carmine Covelli, Sara Landeau, Kathleen Hanna, Kathi
Wilcox, Kenny Mellman

Photographer: Aliya Naumoff
Makeup: Kristin Hilton
Hair: Jennifer Brent

AMAZING, I’M SO EXCITED FOR THIS & THE PUNKS SINGER DOCUMENTARY!

10:41 am  •  27 September 2011  •  118 notes

kimyadawson:

shaunsurething:

NOW IS THE TIME. 

And in these times consider how radical it would be to have a voice and a choice about the direction of the economy. Imagine an engine just for you to exercise that voice and flex that choice muscle and really help implement CHANGE for a neighborhood and it’s peoples that promotes health, growth and opportunity. 

http://www.facebook.com/sweetworkproject

The blog Harlem + Bespoke says:

“The idea of the Pop-Up Co-op came up which would open a shop at 128th Street and St. Nicholas that would sell $1 organic take-out coffee and eventually produce.   Minority youth with no prior work experience will be paid $28.5K a year as a starting salary and will get valuable job skills along with the option of receiving ownership shares for the co-op”

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sweetworkproject/pop-up-co-op

Beastie Boys Ad-Rock,  Artists A.L. Steiner,  Becca Albe and Matt Wolfe, Musician Sia, Le Tigre’s Johanna Fateman (who is also donating her highly coveted pet portriats as a prize at the $250 dollar mark) Musican Kimya Dawson, DJ Designer Imposter, FilmMaker Aurdry Marrs, Legendary punk drummer Molly Newman, and Art word superstar Emily Roysdon, just to name a few, have lent their names along with their donation $’s to back this seriously radical and much needed project. 

Greg Allen who has been an active member of his West Harlem community since 1998 has worked homeless kids or kids otherwise in need of support for more than a decade. If there was a masters degree in “What youth culture needs to propel it’s self into successful adulthood” Greg would hold it. 

So instead of another non-profit systematic band-aid/temporary fix-it, Greg has devised a brilliant plan to implement an actual radical alternative response inside of the small business template, creating a worker owned/cooperative sustainable food market. 

Kathleen Hanna says of the project:

“I think his plan is really radical because it’s about creating a business based on people’s needs rather than a desire for profits.”

What more to say? Please support this with as much money as you can with as little at $10 dollars.

XO, SHAUN SURETHING FOR SEAGULL HAIR SALON, DOWNTOWN NYC.

Greg is my old roommate and he drew my Grim Reaper tattoo. He is a badass dude. 

This is a badass project.

12:21 pm  •  12 August 2011  •  63 notes

i made this video in one shot for the kathleen hanna project. there are a lot of things i wish i could have changed, but oh well. im worried that i sound like a white, rich, privileged feminist in it. i’ve never made a video before and i really did not know what i was doing. oh well.

2:55 pm  •  10 June 2011  •  8 notes

girl-germs:

radicalsprout:

Kathleen Hanna, “The Middle of the Night in My House”

 Forever my favorite.

(via suzy-x)

9:44 pm  •  29 March 2011  •  37 notes

technicolortimecoat:

Hmm, well let’s start with a recent example: So yeah. A record label with a slur in its name. Now let’s go back in time to the early 1990s, and destroy people’s illusions of Bikini Kill (which, admittedly, I am a huge fan of, but with awkward caveats I will now describe): “Feels Blind” - C’mon, this reeks of appropriation! I shouldn’t have to explain it, especially since it’s not something I can really discuss from personal experience, but it does bug me quite a lot. It just makes me think of rich white gay men saying that they can understand racism because they’re gay. Uhm. What? That makes no sense whatsoever, dude. Kathleen, being completely able-bodied, has no business comparing being a woman to being blind. “This Is Not a Test” - ‘You’re dumb, I’m not’ / ‘You’re so blind, you don’t wanna see’. These aren’t just ableist, the second line is a cliché on top of it all. And about the word dumb: a.) it’s used sometimes to refer to muteness [if that term is problematic, please tell me], and b.) well, the meaning itself is messed up. Fool might be a better word, since it’s based more around jesters and a lack of knowledge rather than any sort of societal thing. “Jigsaw Youth” - ‘We know there’s not one way, one light, one stupid truth’. Stupid basically has the same problem as dumb.

There could be more - Bikini Kill never recorded several songs they wrote, and I don’t have lyrics for all the songs they *did* record (although I have lyrics for one or two unrecorded songs). And this is from the liner sheets, not the audio itself.

Anyway, I still love BK, but I really really wish Kathleen would realize and admit that her lyrics have been… problematic. And improve on that. She’s done a lot of good work in the past, I’d hope she’d be receptive to valid constructive criticism. But it’s not like she’ll see this.

Oh well. I needed something to write about. Just, nobody scream at me for this, it’s not a personal attack against any of these people - ableism is among the easiest axes of oppression to get sucked into supporting. Then again, I guess they’re all really easy. But it seems that almost everyone engages in it. Hell, I’ve been really fucked up on it in the past! But I’m making effort to research and think about this stuff, cuz it’s just as important as everything else in Social Justice.

There could be more - Bikini Kill never recorded several songs they wrote, and I don’t have lyrics for all the songs they *did* record (although I have lyrics for one or two unrecorded songs). And this is from the liner sheets, not the audio itself.

Anyway, I still love BK, but I really really wish Kathleen would realize and admit that her lyrics have been… problematic. And improve on that. She’s done a lot of good work in the past, I’d hope she’d be receptive to valid constructive criticism. But it’s not like she’ll see this.

Oh well. I needed something to write about. Just, nobody scream at me for this, it’s not a personal attack against any of these people - ableism is among the easiest axes of oppression to get sucked into supporting. Then again, I guess they’re all really easy. But it seems that almost everyone engages in it. Hell, I’ve been really fucked up on it in the past! But I’m making effort to research and think about this stuff, cuz it’s just as important as everything else in Social Justice.

To be fair, Kathleen Hanna has been known to say that she puts material out there at the risk of making mistakes, hoping that somebody else will be inspired enough to correct her and produce material that is better at representing them. She told me that a part of being an ally is about making mistakes and listening to criticisms.

6:31 pm  •  21 March 2011  •  5 notes

elliegreenwichcandance:

Julie Ruin - V.G.I. [1998]

Julie Ruin is Kathleen Hanna, and is the direct precursor to Le Tigre. In fact I’m pretty sure Le Tigre was originally conceived as a live performance complement to Julie Ruin. Le Tigre was great and all but this Julie Ruin record remains unsurpassed.

V.G.I. (Valley Girl Intelligencia) poppily reminds us that feminists come in all shapes and sizes and sometimes wear scrunchies.

“i’ll play with yer mind but i won’t do yer dishes boy!”

i’m so excited that kathleen hanna is reuniting julie ruin!!!!!!

(via missworld)

9:25 pm  •  16 March 2011  •  66 notes

I love nyc

3:16 pm  •  13 February 2011  •  11 notes

“Well I mean, along side of being a punk I’m also a feminist. And I’ve read books like, How to Suppress Women’s Writing by Joanna Rush and even just reading a Guerilla Girls poster in the ’80s was enough to scare the shit out of me. That everything we were going to do was going to get erased. Even in the ’90s, Babes in Toyland was a band that was hugely important to us and we were like, God if only we could play awesome shows like Babes in Toyland. And now, you know, I meet girls who have no idea who they are. And I watch them be erased. And the internet moves so fast that we could be in every single article today and then tomorrow nobody remembers who we are. It’s not so much that we want people to remember our names, but one of the most important things for me always was to fuck with the generation gap that makes it so that feminists from every era would have to reinvent the wheel. And a big part of what we were trying to do was create a continuum between the second wave to what became the third wave. So it wasn’t like, we hate the second wavers and they were anti-sex and we’re pro-sex. It was more like, we’re trying to recast what you’re doing through our punk rock colored glasses and make it make sense to us. So it could breathe new life into the ideas instead of destroying them. And I felt like that’s the whole thing with the riot grrrl archive. It’s not so much about nostalgia, it’s about leaving a record so that people can view things in the future. I think of punk rock as more of an idea than a genre, and I don’t see it as antithetical to the notion of building on things. I didn’t have a grandma who like, left me a trunk full of shit. I always wanted to leave that trunk full of shit for someone else, you know? Feminism created a family structure for me.”

— Kathleen Hanna / Fader / 2010 (via tulletulle)

(via hatingandeating)

1:57 pm  •  14 January 2011  •  274 notes

missworld:

diadmuerte:

Photo: Natalie Scarpelli.

Kathleen Hanna djing at last nights “An Evening With The Raincoats” at MoMA in NYC.

Photos by me, of course.

So cute, love that jacket.

(via lipsbetweenthehips)

12:31 am  •  22 November 2010

“I’m just doing what anybody would do, and it’s no big deal. I’m really lucky because my mother was really supportive of me, and always whispered in my ear - even when my father was telling me I was a piece of shit - that I was cool and I could do anything I wanted. Because I had that privilege, and also because I’m white and I’m middle class, I’m gonna use those privileges to my best advantage and I’m gonna do these things, and it’s just normal for me.”

— Kathleen Hanna (via missworld)

(via lipsbetweenthehips)

9:33 am  •  16 November 2010  •  37 notes