We tend to romanticize the era and place that produced art we love, turn it into a fantasy fertile wonderland where people just wake up every day and make great music, start world-changing political movements with just a Sharpie and a stapler, love and support each other, and never worry about money...
In Kathleen Hanna's new memoir, Rebel Girl, Olympia is a place where it's OK for an ex-boyfriend to turn his art show into revenge porn, where Hanna and friends start their own art gallery after a Boy Scouts leader ruins the prints she'd hung up in a hallway at the Evergreen State College, where her roommate is severely beaten, where Hanna is raped (and not for the first time) and later stalked...
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