Kathleen Hanna's Memoir 'Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk' OUT NOW | NPR Fresh Air, NY Times, Morning Joe | Book Tour

Kathleen Hanna Acclaimed Memoir Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk OUT NOW via Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Rebel Girl book purchase link US Book Tour Kicks Off Today in NYC with Molly Ringwald Additional Stops Incl. Special Guests Amy Poehler, Hanif Abdurraqib $1 of each ticket sold will be donated to non-profit, Peace Sisters Tour dates + tickets below and here. Read Exclusive Excerpts: PEOPLE, ELLE, Rolling Stone NPR Fresh Air | The New York Times Watch Her LIVE on MSNBC’s Morning Joe The Los Angeles Times | Vanity Fair | W Magazine | Rolling Stone THEM | Town & Country | HYPEBEAST | NY Mag: The Grub Street Diet Pitchfork | SPIN | VOGUE | Interview Magazine “From the 1993 single “Rebel Girl” to this book of the same name, women’s sovereignty over their bodies has been Kathleen Hanna’s North Star and cri de coeur. Given recent court decisions sending America back to the Dark Ages, her story, along with Bikini Kill’s upcoming tour, couldn’t feel more necessary.” - The New York Times, Book Review

Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk book cover Book cover by Ecco Trailblazing feminist icon, musician, outspoken women’s rights activist, and original rebel girl Kathleen Hanna has released her critically acclaimed memoir Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk today, May 14, with Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins. In celebration, her U.S. book tour kicks off this evening in NYC with Molly Ringwald. Tickets are on sale now. Throughout the run, Hanna will be joined by an eclectic lineup of brilliant minds “in conversation”, including Amy Poehler, Hanif Abdurraqib, Lindy West, Brontez Purnell, Puja Patel and more. Fans unable to attend the tour in-person can join the live stream on May 22! A portion of all ticket sales will be donated to Peace Sisters, a non-profit organization for which Hanna is an Ambassador. Hanna’s band Bikini Kill embodied the punk scene of the 90s, and today her personal yet feminist lyrics on anthems like “Rebel Girl” and “Double Dare Ya” are more powerful than ever. But where did this transformative voice come from? In Rebel Girl, Hanna’s raw and insightful new memoir, she takes us from her tumul­tuous childhood to her formative college years and her first shows. As Hanna makes clear, being in a punk “girl band” in those years was not a simple or safe prospect. Male violence and antagonism threatened at every turn, and surviving as a singer who was a lightning rod for controversy took limitless amounts of determination. But the relationships she developed during those years buoyed her, including with her bandmates Tobi Vail, Kathi Wilcox, JD Samson, and Johanna Fateman. And her friendships with musicians like Kurt Cobain, Ian MacKaye, Kim Gordon, and Joan Jett reminded her that despite the odds, the punk world could still nurture and care for its own. Hanna opens up about falling in love with Ad-Rock of the Beastie Boys and her debilitating battle with Lyme disease, and she brings us behind the scenes of her musical growth in her bands Le Tigre and The Julie Ruin. In an uncut voice all her own, Hanna reveals the hardest times along with the most joyful—and how they continue to fuel her revolutionary art and music. Website | Instagram | TikTok | Bookshop.org