Hanna chronicles her creative genesis in the Olympia, Washington, underground alongside her bandmates in Bikini Kill, the scorched, epochal band that incited the '90s punk-feminist movement known as riot grrrl, and later in Le Tigre, which brought that agenda to the dance floor.
Her prose cuts and shimmers, particularly when she's describing the music she made from the inside out. Singing 'has never stopped being the tiny tornado I most want to be in,' she writes.
Today Hanna's cultural impact is overwhelming. Tracing the influence of Bikini Kill's third-wave countercultural art could begin with their Oly peers, including Nirvana - Hanna famously (drunkenly) scribbled 'Kurt smells like Teen Spirit' on his bedroom wall with a Sharpie marker.
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