I didn't even know what the word lesbian meant until I was called one... and then I had to look it up in the dictionary.
Kathleen HannaI talked a lot early on in my career about intersectionality and how racism and classism and sexism and homophobia and capitalism are all connected with each other, and they're these crazy systems that are feeding on each other and are also damaging. I can't even go into the whole spectrum of it. But I feel like kids today are so much more savvy about that conversation. And I'm so thrilled when I get to meet younger people who are doing that so much better than I did.
Kathleen HannaI think as a culture, we don't like conflict or looking at icky stuff - especially in our downtime.
Kathleen HannaI've always been like, "Look, you're going to die and it's not going to matter after you die that you got out onstage and bombed."
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