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I'm living in a world where there are LGBTQ straight alliances at high schools. I feel pretty psyched on that.

Kathleen Hanna

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Kathleen Hanna
Age: 55
Born: 1968
Born: November 12
Film Actor
Guitarist
Musician
Singer
Portland
Oregon
Julie Ruin
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I don't like every other musician's work. The same way that filmmakers don't like every other filmmakers' work. Just because I'm a feminist doesn't mean I'm gonna say that I like every other woman's work, or that I appreciate another statement that another woman publicly made.
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It's the idea that we as people can control our own destinies. The government and the corporations, more even than the government, can't dictate what artwork we're supposed to like or what comedy we're supposed to laugh at.
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Jason Mraz, and the new James Blunt song is the worst thing that has ever been created on the face of the earth.
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No one's female and male, we all have so many different traits. It's just a lie that these certain traits are male and these certain traits are female.
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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.
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A lot of artists are just really stupid about money, and it's really hard to find somebody who kind of thinks of shuffling money around and doing business as an art.
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I was never trying to be the voice for anybody else. I was just trying to sing about what I was going through, and was singing about those things specifically because I knew there was an audience not being served.
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Young girls getting into feminism.
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I'm not going to sit around and be peace and love with somebody's boot on my neck.
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I have no clue. I just know I would want to play the least amount of shows that the most people would be able to come to.
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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.
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