A LIFE IN PICTURES

Hanna manner: Kathleen’s road to Ruin.

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“All I wanted to do was perform.” The young Hanna, ready to sing her “favourite jam”, Away In A Manger.

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Red alert: Kathleen (top) showing those lipstick traces with Le Tigre bandmates Johanna Fateman (left) and JD Samson.

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Ad Rock’n’roll: with Beastie Boy/actor/ husband Adam Horovitz, New York City, May 2016.

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Riot Grrrl poster girl: Kathleen (standing centre) in Viva Knieval [sic], 1988.

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Revolution girls now: Bikini Kill, 1994 (from left) Kathi Wilcox, Hanna, Tobi Vail. “It was important to be in touch with the kids who came to the shows and wrote letters.”

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Hanna is The Punk Singer: Kathleen and The Julie Ruin bandmate Kathi Wilcox at a screening of the Sini Anderson doc, New York City, November 2013.

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No running away: Hanna and Vail in Bikini Kill with Joan Jett, Irving Plaza, NYC, July 1994. “New Radio was probably the best session of my life… they did give me direction, it was wonderful.”

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Kathleen makes her case in Le Tigre: “How can we write songs about celebrating what we have instead of talking about what we don’t have?”