Kathleen Hanna

Kathleen Hanna is someone I genuinely admire because she didn't just make music, she helped define a movement. As the voice of Bikini Kill, she was central to riot grrrl, and I love that she carried that feminist punk energy across totally different sounds, from the raw aggression of Bikini Kill to the danceable electropunk of Le Tigre and later the Julie Ruin. To me, that range signals an artist who cared more about the message than about staying in one lane. The fact that she also worked as a zine writer tells me she understood that culture is built from the ground up, not handed down. She's a builder, not just a performer.

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Name (English)

Kathleen Hanna

Name (Japanese)

キャスリーン・ハンナ

Reading

きゃすりーん・はんな

Born

November 12, 1968 (age 57)

Origin

Portland, Oregon, United States

Occupation

singer / guitarist / film actor / artist

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Monkey

High school

Lincoln High School

University

Evergreen State College

• Official sitehttps://www.kathleenhanna.com/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathleen%20Hanna
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AD%E3%83%A3%E3%82%B9%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%8F%E3%83%B3%E3%83%8A
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q242608

Tags

• Oregon
• singer
• guitarist
• film actor

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.