Natural’s Not in It
I LOVE KATHY ACKER.
I love that Kathy Acker’s family money came from gloves and a New York butchery.
I love that in a 1991 interview for the “Angry Women” Issue Of The Journal RE/Search, Acker seems to speak entirely in exclamation marks.
I love that when the young, pre–Bikini Kill Kathleen Hanna tracked down her idol at a workshop in Seattle, Acker rebuffed her, saying that her brand of feminism was naive (Sexism destroys men, too, Acker told her) and that she should quit writing and start a band.
She was the hinge for so many of America’s best late-twentieth-century mythologies—Riot Grrrl,