Kathleen Hanna on Gloria Steinem, Ms. Magazine and Second Wave Feminism Celina Hex: Kathleen,
Kathleen Hanna on Gloria Steinem, Ms. Magazine and Second Wave FeminismCelina Hex: Kathleen, what did you know about Second Wave feminism when you were getting involved with Riot Grrrl?KATHLEEN: I didn’t know very much, actually. I had just read “The Second Sex” by Simone de Beauvoir. And the only feminist thing I had ever been to, Gloria spoke at Bella Azbug - at the Solidarity Day in Washington, DC. I guess it was the late ‘70s, and I was 9 years old.GLORIA: Oh, that’s so great!KATHLEEN: You were really incredible. My mom was a housewife, and wasn’t somebody that people would think of as a feminist, and when Ms. magazine came out we were incredible inspired by it. I used to cut pictures out of it and make posters that said “Girls can do anything”, and stuff like that, and my mom was inspired to work at a basement of a church doing anti-domestic violence work. And then she took me to the Solidarity Day thing, and it was the first time i had ever been in a big crowd of women yelling, and it really made me want to do it forever.Read the full interview hereI cannot recommend the documentary on Kathleen Hanna, “The Punk Singer”, more highly. It is AMAZING. I first saw it on Netflix streaming and I just checked, it is still playing there. -- source link
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