An obligatory birthday post from the Fuck yeah, Kathleen Hanna staff and all its followers.
Shoutout to hannahorovitz as she’s been doing this whole “birthday week” posting thing on her blog and reblogging a ton of our Kathleen posts!
Happy birthday, FYKH!
This blog is officially three years old today!
How the time flies…
We here at the Fuck Yeah, Kathleen Hanna “staff” (if you can call it that) would like to thank all of our 1,300+ followers for following our blog, reading our posts, putting up with our completely inconsistent posting, and for just being generally awesome.
We would also like to remind everyone that we do accept submissions and will answer any questions that we have the capability of answering. We also do have a Disqus feed, which can be accessed in every single post, where you can comment on a post (although it seems nobody ever does here).
Thanks for sticking with us for three years of posts, and for our new followers for discovering us. We hope to be here for a much longer time, and our next milestones will be our five year anniversary, and the day that Kathleen finally adds us to her blogroll. We can always hope! ;)
Continue to enjoy our posts! We love you all!
THE JULIE RUIN feat. KATHLEEN HANNA
“This is Not a Test” (Bikini Kill)
KNITTING FACTORY, NYC
December 11, 2010
Definition of Feminism by Gloria Steinem and Kathleen Hanna
- GLORIA: Well, I think the dictionary is not bad, you know: the belief in the full social, economic, and political equality of women and men. I would just add "and doing something about it." And when you look at the effects of that simple statement, it's quite a transformation.
- KATHLEEN: I agree with what she said, and I would add that I also see It as a broad-based political movement that's bent on challenging hierarchies of all kinds in our society, including racism and classism and able-body-ism, etc etc.
- GLORIA: Yeah, I agree. That's the transformation - because once you take away the basic first step in a hierarchy, which is the passive/dominant of female/male, it challenges everything.
Kathleen Hanna is dancing in the crowd and somewhere in that crowd is Adam Horovitz. Definitely a ‘picture or it didn’t happen’ kind of moment. Such lucky lucky lucky people….
Highland Museum in ATL, 29 October 2011
Kathleen Hanna on Marriage
LG: I read that you got married a while back. Was it difficult negotiating your strong feminist beliefs with the patriarchal structure of marriage? (This is a bit personal, and I understand if you don’t want to answer it)
KH: Sure. I think marriage is pretty retrogressive in a lot of ways but when my health insurance ran out and getting hitched was the only way to have it again, I bit the bullet. I think the biggest compromise for me was less that it’s a patriarchal institution (Isn’t everything?) and more that I wanted to hold out till it was a right for everyone. But health insurance is pretty important and it just made sense for me to have it. I also happen to be completely in love with Adam and can’t think of anyone I’d rather be with. He really is the absolute love of my life.Source: http://community.feministing.com/2010/02/12/my-qa-with-kathleen-hanna/
From top left to bottom right: Le Tigre opened for BS 2000, Kathleen was on the VMA red carpet, Kathleen and Adam go see Kenny Mellman on Broadway!, and Adam, Kathleen, Murray Hill, Carmine Covelli, and Kenny Mellman spend the fourth of July together
