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[Krysta Cirilo]

dearKathleen, could you send me a autograph picture of the band .pretty please. bikini kill is a great band glad you are reuniting to tour again.yours truly Timothy Tuck, 1525 park lane Hillsborough nc 27278. thank you for reading this email

Finding Bikini Kill when I was 15 helped me form into the person I am now. I was already into feminism and punk rock but she was the first female I have ever listened too with so much power. Since I was born I was raised to suck in my stomach and not talk until spoken too, Bikini Kill taught me to say fuck it and take no shit from anybody. They still help me through the days and I could thank them every day for it.

I remember being amazed that she knew all about our band and that she was a big fan of ours. She was so incredibly sincere and genuine that it made a lasting impression. I was floored and will never forget that show.

I met kathleen last fall in Durham, NC. She asked my name and immediately told me I need to be in a band because my name sounded like a member. I told kathleen about my teenage infatuation I still 17 years later.

Around 91 or 92 I got introduced to punk and indie rock. I was living near Boston at the time, so it was Dinosaur Jr. and Sebadoh. Soon enough, I found my way to Minor Threat, Fugazi, Unwound, Huggy Bear, Heavens To Betsy, and of course Bikini Kill. Just had to hear Rebel Girl once and I knew there was something special about them. A couple years later I helped found an incarnation of Riot Grrl Boston, and I got to see Bikini Kill play (one of) their last shows in Cambridge (at TT the Bears I believe, with either Bratmobile or Cold Cold Hearts). I briefly met Kathleen while my best friend at the time hugged her. It was an amazing time.

I used to like your band but I notice now you are just another suburban faux political whiner. You have no problem calling out white heterosexual men on their sexism when they call a girl doll or something equally benign but sexism and homophobia in any other part of america you are too scared your whitebread audience might not think you are pc. Yeah surprise black men hate gays and rape women too. Also compared to any country in the middle east america is a gender equal utopia but you dont bitch about muslims. U afraid to piss off brown people with destructive beliefs but white guys who you know are more peaceful and take your critiques you are proud to rip to shreds, or is it that only white americans are all that matter to you. ugh the only thing you did to feminism was make overpriveledged white women feel less guilty about their luck in life by comparing themselves to someone slightly more priveledged. I guess it is important to tear down the current reigning class when you know you are the next in line for the throne so when white women take over the world please remember me and kill me quick. I do like some of your songs though you are not completely mediocre.

I first heard Bikini Kill when I was 14 in like 2002. I was starting to get into feminism and notice gender inequality in the world and I was also diversifying the music I listened to, and getting into more punk rock.

Just wrote a little blog piece to mark the 20th Anniversary of the Biknin Kill EP. It share some of my memories of seeing the band play in the 90s. It also has a great video of BKs show in Dublin in 1996 which I found on YouTube. I Double Dare you to watch it all.

Now, 15 years later, I co-own a company that makes guitar pedals, etc. and there is so much work to be done. Women are not welcome in the rock & roll club yet. There are bands out there doing it, but not with the help of their male counter-parts. I am shocked at how sexist some of these dudes still are. I was out of the loop having babies and such and when I came back it was as if someone had hit the rewind button.

I was learning how to play my favourite songs on guitar and piano at the time, and was trying to form bands with my friends. There really seemed to be a revolution going on, with the whole punk scene suddenly experiencing an influx of female musicians! Yay!

Without Bikini Kill, I wouldnt be who I am or where I am today. I was introduced to Bikini Kill be a few coworkers at the record store I worked in as a teenager. I then found out about the julie ruin album, and le tigre, and it all began. I never felt the empowerment and strength of women telling their stories and feelings with such an amazingly aggressive way until I was about 16. I was sexually molested for several years by a neighbor when I was just a little girl. It tore away my self respect and confidence at an early age and I was terrified to be around guys who werent family. I didnt know how to channel my anger and shame. Bikini kill lyrics and kathleens voice also carried me through a very emotionally abusive relationship that I couldnt find the strength to get out of until I found empowerment through music. I truly love kathleen for everything shes done for my mind.

I was a little young when riot grrrl was in full force but I really wish I had something like that in my life while I was a teenager. I am now just getting into bands like Bikini Kill and Bratmobile and my story is now that I am learning about these bands and the strong women of that whole era I feel like I am not alone. Not alone in having been through a really powerless feeling teenage female.

In other words, I listen to both male and female bands, and music means quite a bit to me. It tends to soothe my soul. Like you say, that coming of age period in my life has lived in my heart to this day also.

Thanks for your insight. I really apprecaite what you had to say, cause yeah, channeling anger has been a hard thing for me to do. But what I was trying to express in my previous comment was that Bikini Kill has given me a way to use music as an outlet for channeling anger and thats why they are so important to me.

But, yeah. Growing from anger and pain to become a better, stronger person is pretty much my goal in life. ? Thanks so much for taking the time to write that out for me!

P.S. I LOVE Xray Spex!!!! My boyfriend actually found a used copy of Germ Free Adolescents at some record store and gave it to me for my 16th birthday. lol.

I do I do I do! I remember my friend used to play me all this punk rock music to try to get me to be a punk chick. I hated most of it. So masculine! Then he played me Bikini Kill. Everything.Changed.Then. I became an indie kid.

Hello, I am a Ph.D. candidate in History at Purdue University. I am writing a dissertation on gender and American punk rock, specifically, musicians and fans thoughts on how punk rock enacted and created

its own gendered ideals in the various punk rock scenes that existed from 1970-1995.

I would like to interview any fans or musicians involved in the Riot Grrrl

movement from 1991-1995 about their experiences in Riot Grrrl as well as general opinions about feminism, gender, and punk rock.

While I am approaching this topic from a scholarly perspective I am also a life long punk rock fan and I in no way wish to denigrate or attack those involved. I have the utmost respect for the punk community and for those musicians and fans which helped create it.

Your participation would entail an interview to be set up at a mutually convenient time and place; the interview can also be done over the phone or completed in writing via email. The interview will last approximately 30 minutes to 1 hour and I will be taking notes and using a tape recorder.

Your participation is purely voluntary and may be withdrawn at any time during the project up to the submission of the final draft of my dissertation. I thank you for your time and consideration and hope to work with you soon.

Bikini Kill was much more then just a band it was a movement, that empowered people to question themselves and how they engage with(in) the society they lived. The music was an extension of the performance, the words, and symbolization of the generation. Bikini Kill was a mirror to their audience at times eliciting extreme violence and reaction from people who understood the message in a very unique way.

When I was 12 years old I went into a record store on 86th street in Brooklyn called the Record Factory. I had read a generic essentials list in rolling stone and wanted to buy my first punk album. i was looking for the sex pistols even though I didnt really relate to them, I just wanted it cause Rolling Stone said I did.

And then it happened. The counter girl said she had the album I was wanted. I told her she had the wrong person but she swore I had came in earlier looking for bikini kill. Being young and impressionable I bought it cause she insisted and it opened the world up to me. I was just hitting puberty and man did that album explain so much to me. I wonder if that counter girl was my fairy godmother.

The cooler staffers worked in the Art Department. L liked her coffee the color of a brown paper bag; M, the art director, had Sylvia Plachy on the wall and was about to walk; and E had a black-and-white photograph of Kathleen Hanna thumb-tacked near her monitor.

i was way into bikini kill in middle school, taking after my big sister (circa 2002) and i remember my first girlfriend was from a very religious family, bought a bikini kill album and was forced to return it by her parents. i gave her a copy.

Bikini Kill was and is, something so very important to me. The music was so raw and meaningful, and so much passion was poured out from it. As I still listen to Bikini Kill, I still get the goosebumps I received when I first listened. Bikini Kill and the whole riot grrl movement has made me into such a confident woman, who is proud to be who I am. Even though I experienced the whole riot grrl movement a decade later, it still had such an enormous impact on my life and who I am today. Thank you so much!

I still turn to my Grrrl collection on my Ipod whenever the mood warrants . Frumpies, Bratmobile, Huggy Bear, Heavens to Betsy, The Fakes, Le Tigre, and of course Bikini Kill. Their music will never get old!

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