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I have just read the new Gigantor issue of your ’zine with its absolutely fabulously fresh format [October 1996] and I must confess with all verisimilitude that it’s definitely the bomb.

But Hanna was far from a one-woman crusade. Numerous women talked about feminist ideas and how they related to the punk scene, to pop culture, and to women in their teens and twenties. Tobi Vail, Bikini Kill’s drummer, put out the ’zine Jigsaw, and Donna Dresch of the band Team Dresch created Homocore.

She yearned for—yearned to adopt and wanted to be adopted by—rock musicians, colorful literary failures, pale headbangers, suavo archetypes with bandannas tied around their biceps, and starting way back in high school long dreamt of having affairs with long-haired guys named Scorch or Trevor or Rick who, even if they smelled unappealingly of cigarettes and booze, were part of the rebellious, ’zine-reading Dial B for Bum-in-Hand youth of today.