Bikini Kill’s Kathleen Hanna Reveals Illness, Reconfirms Awesomeness In ‘The Punk Singer’
Bikini Kill’s Kathleen Hanna Reveals Illness, Reconfirms Awesomeness In ‘The Punk Singer’
The Punk Singer, Sini Anderson’s intimate, invigorating portrait of Riot grrrl founder and former Bikini Kill and Le Tigre frontwoman Kathleen Hanna, world premiered at SXSW this week and it’s the film I can’t stop thinking about. In it, Hanna reveals for the first time that she dropped out of the music scene after being stricken low by Lyme Disease, a diagnosis that took six long, hard years for doctors to make. At its terrifying peak her illness robbed Hanna of that raw belt of a singing voice and she worried she’d soon be bound to a wheelchair. Watch a clip below:
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