On ainstream artists like Taylor Swift and Beyonce identifying as feminist: "It's totally amazing. I remember back in the Nineties being like, "We're being commodified," so I understand people being like, "We don't want feminism to become this fashion that has nothing behind it." But I'm not really worried about that. When somebody that's a huge megastar that has so many young fans, like Taylor Swift or Miley Cyrus or Beyoncé, comes out and says, "I'm a feminist," I mean, that's the sound of hundreds of thousands of girls typing the word into the Internet."
On the mayor of Boston declaring April 9th as "Riot Grrrl Day" in her honor: "It was really strange, because Bikini Kill as a band never had great experiences in Boston [laughs]. Our shows tended to be very violent and scary there, so it was really surreal to be handed that. It was written out in the way I had written this riot grrrl manifesto, my own personal one. To have something that was just in our fanzine be translated through the government was weird."
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