Maggie Rogers / Kathleen Hanna

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🗓️ 28 December 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

In 2021, burnt out from the intensity of her early career, Maggie Rogers considered quitting music entirely. Instead, she took a detour — to Harvard Divinity School, where she earned a master's degree in religion and public life. Her 2024 album is Don't Forget Me.

Kathleen Hanna's band Bikini Kill was the epicenter of the riot grrrl feminist punk movement of the '90s. Their song "Rebel Girl" was the anthem. Her memoir this year was about her time in the punk scene, her childhood, and finding joy in expressing anger in public.

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0:25.3	From W.HY.Y.
0:26.8	In Philadelphia, this is Fresh Air Weekend.
0:29.1	I'm Sam Brigger.
0:30.6	Today we continue listening to some of our favorite interviews of 2024.
0:34.9	First, we'll hear from singer-songwriter Maggie Rogers.
0:38.1	In 2021, Rogers felt burnt out and took a break for music to go to Harvard Divinity
0:43.0	School.
0:43.7	I think at its core, music has always been the most sacred and most spiritual thing that I've
0:49.8	ever been a part of.
0:51.2	I walked off you. And I walked off and owned me. been a part of.
1:01.1	Also, punk pioneer Kathleen Hanna.
1:06.8	With her band Bikini Kill, she helped form a movement challenging the misogyny in punk in the 90s.
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