Rebel Girl - My Life as a Feminist Punk

'A roadmap for a new generation' VOGUE 'Radical, funny and fearless- VANITY FAIR -Gripping- NYLON An electric, searing memoir by the original Riot Grrrl and legendary frontwoman of Bikini Kill and Le Tigre 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 li