In her feminist punk music, Kathleen Hanna tells it all. In her memoir, there's more to the story

This cover image released by Ecco shows “Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk” by Kathleen Hanna. FILE - Kathleen Hanna of the punk rock band Bikini Kill performs at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles on May 2, 2019. Hanna released a memoir “Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk.” FILE - Kathleen Hanna, center, Tobi Vail, left, and Erica Dawn Lyle of the punk rock band Bikini Kill performs at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles on May 2, 2019.

“Rebel Girl” was initially 600 pages long, nearly double what it is now. Gone are stories that don’t work on the page — and other accounts of abuse, including another rape and kidnapping. “I’ve had moments of a kind of terror flash through me and they have to do with those things of, like, not being believed or someone coming after me who’s mentioned,” she says.

In the latter sections of the book, Hanna details her long-time, life-threatening battle with Lyme Disease and other previously private revelations: heart-warming descriptions of her marriage to' Adam Horovitz, a miscarriage, the adoption of her son, Julius, and the fact that she and Bikini Kill’s Tobi Vail also wonder, like their fans do, what role their band and the riot grrrl movement might’ve played in modern identity politics — not as progenitors, but influencers.

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