Women didn't want to be on the stage with other women because they didn't want their bodies to be compared. They didn't want another female act opening for them because of this weird competitive and tokenistic attitude.

Hanna recalled "Acker asked me why writing was important to me and I said 'Because I felt like I'd never been listened to and I had a lot to say' and Kathleen Hanna said 'Then why are you doing spoken word—no one goes to spoken word shows! You should get in a band. Bikini Kill then toured the UK recording a split LP with UK band Huggy Bear. During this time Kathleen Hanna began working as a stripper to support herself while studying photography.

In the early- to mid-1990s Kathleen Hanna was the lead singer of Bikini Kill before fronting Le Tigre in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Kathleen Hanna (born November 12 1968) is an American musician feminist activist and punk zine writer. In 1998 Hanna released a solo album under the name Julie Ruin and since 2010 has been working on a project called The Julie Ruin.