Kathleen Hanna

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Kathleen Hanna of Bikini Kill passionately singing into a microphone on stage, wearing a sleeveless red top, during Rock for Choice 1993 in Hollywood.

Kathleen Hanna

American musician

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In the early 1990s Kathleen Hanna, lead singer of the punk rock group Bikini Kill, made it a practice to begin gigs with the command, “Girls to the front!” Hanna’s experience was that women in the punk scene were often pushed aside by male fans and musicians. In her…
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In the early 1990s Kathleen Hanna, lead singer of the punk rock group Bikini Kill, made it a practice to begin gigs with the command, “Girls to the front!” Hanna’s experience was that women in the punk scene were often pushed aside by male fans and musicians. In her…
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