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For the past 30 years, Kathleen Hanna has made a career unapologetically —and often uncomfortably — speaking truth. Whether fronting bands like Bikini Kill, Le Tigre, and Julie Ruin; raising money for the education of young girls in West Africa by selling screen-printed tees of her and her friends’ bands …

Kathleen Hanna first met Beastie Boys‘ Adam “Ad-Rock” Horovitz on a 1995 Australian festival called Summersault where her band, Bikini Kill, and the Beasties shared a bill. As soon as she saw him, she decided he was “the sexiest boy in the world,” as she wrote in her upcoming memoir, …