I'm not a goddess, for crying out loud. I'm a regular person who took feminism - which I have a deep connection to - and mixed it with music, which I really love to do. Kathleen Hanna More Quotes by Kathleen Hanna More Quotes From Kathleen Hanna I kind of decided that doing music is enough because I'm already running a couple small businesses. I'm a part of Bikini Kill Records, Le Tigre Records, and Digitally Ruined Records. In dealing with my health and everything, my ability to do that? I wouldn't be good at it. Kathleen Hanna records couple running I am possibly thinking about doing an Internet show in the future that will highlight political organizations that I seek out to let people know about them, volunteer opportunities, and donation opportunities. Kathleen Hanna organization opportunity thinking I felt like going out on the road and mixing it with music - which is something young people are always really interested in - would be a good way to proselytize. It was like feminist evangelism. Kathleen Hanna mixing feminist people I'm sure if you see things you wrote when you were 19, you cringe. I saw stuff like angry poetry that I wrote when I was mad at my father, or photos I took where I smeared period blood on myself. It's embarrassing. Kathleen Hanna mad father blood I feel like what I'm best at is being a musician and a performer. I want to use that to help people who are good at starting nonprofits. Kathleen Hanna musician use people I need to see my friends or I'm gonna go crazy. I'm not gonna stay home and work. Kathleen Hanna crazy home needs I'm so language-based and I'm so about communicating, and my art has always been very audience-based, and very about being functional and communicating something, and about feeling like I have to be heard. Kathleen Hanna language feelings art My original goal in the '90s, after I found feminism and I was the first generation in my family to go to college, was to spread this information that feminism was still very much alive, and that you can't believe the media telling you that it doesn't need to exist and that it doesn't exist. Kathleen Hanna media college believe The exciting thing about getting a label together and doing press for it is that hopefully some 15-year-old girl who is the only feminist in her junior-high class will hear about it and be like, "Oh, cool, I hadn't heard of that, I'm going to check it out." Kathleen Hanna girl class years I think that feminism is in cycle. Feminism rotates between backlash and interest. Kathleen Hanna feminism interest thinking The cool thing about the Internet is that it's allowing women more access to their own history. Kathleen Hanna backlash cool-things internet I think that the Internet is really cool because a lot of young feminists don't feel like they have to reinvent the wheel. Kathleen Hanna wheels feminist thinking There are people who view their feminism in different ways. I used to beat myself up if I didn't react to things like I was supposed to. Kathleen Hanna feminism views people When you're the person who's kind of in charge of everything a lot of the time, it's sometimes nice to get bossed around. It's sometimes nice to have somebody say, "This is what I want you to do" and to stretch your abilities. Kathleen Hanna nice kind want Most of my records are never going to be commercial successes, and I don't expect that. It's just all a learning process to me. If something appears as a failure, fine. If there's success, fine. I like the record, and my friends like the record, and that's kind of all I can really care about. Kathleen Hanna records care kind I feel like that when I read certain feminist blogs or feminist magazines, where it's not even so much we've gone backwards, it's that I'm bored. Or it's like, oh wow, kids today are still dealing with the same exact issues. Kathleen Hanna feminist bored kids 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. Kathleen Hanna female different lying I'm not sure Riot Grrrl would have been as big a deal if the Internet had existed back then. Because there's so much stuff on the Internet. People could have been like, oh, whatever, I'm going to go look at pictures of Barbie vaginas, you know what I mean? There's so many different things on the Internet, you read one article and then you read something linked off that article and you go down the rabbit hole. Kathleen Hanna barbie mean people I don't appreciate it when women - or men - bandy about these stupid stereotypes about feminism that are age-old, and that are meant to keep people turned off from it. It's like, "All you have to do is Wikipedia feminism to know that it's not about man-hating - so shut up." That makes me annoyed. Kathleen Hanna hate stupid men 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. Kathleen Hanna appreciate feminist mean
