#Kathleen Hanna

PLAYING MELBOURNE'90s Alt-pop Act Minimum Chips Reborn as Thibault

Nicole Thibault, formerly of experimental jazz band Minimum Chips, has just released her debut album with collaborators Rebecca Liston (of Parsnip), The Ocean Party's Lachlan Denton, and Julian...

Cat Woods

AF 2019 IN REVIEWThe Return of Bikini Kill

Kathleen Hanna on stage at Riot Fest Chicago 2019. Photo by Ashlee Rezin Garcia for the Chicago Sun-Times. Nineties vibes are at a fever pitch in 2019 and women’s rights are still at stake, though the ripple effect of the original Riot Grrrl movement continues. For feminists who’ve repeatedly seen...

Holly Henschen

NEWS ROUNDUPAlternative Beef, Cancel Chris Brown, and MORE

Courtney Love and Kathleen Hanna have had ongoing beef since the mid '90s. Can't We All Just Get Along? Rekindling a decades old beef, Courtney Love had some choice words for Kathleen Hanna following the news that the latter's riot grrl act Bikini Kill would play a handful of reunion shows in LA and...

Lindsey Rhoades

PLAYLISTA Playlist to Celebrate "Riot Grrrl Day"

April is known for rain, taxes, rabbits, and silly pranks, but now the month has a new, much cooler holiday: Boston’s mayor, Marty Walsh, has designated April 9th “Riot Grrrl Day” in honor of Kathleen Hanna, the front woman of Bikini Kill and Le Tigre. Born in Portland, Hanna's interest in feminism...

Emily Daly

YEAR END LISTAF's Guide to Riot Grrrl's Influence in 2013

It is a goddamn golden age for girl-fronted punk. It's not that there haven't been important works by women in the ensuing years, but 2013 saw a Riot Grrrl Renaissance unlike anything since its early '90s inception. Back then, Kathleen Hanna had to make safe spaces at Bikini Kill shows for female...

Lindsey Rhoades