The ability of music to encourage cultural movements has been evident for decades, developing into a multitude of subcultures and social revolutions. Bikini Kill and the the Riot Grrrl movement is a prime example of this idea. Based in Olympia, Washington and Washington, DC, Bikini Kill was a feminist punk band formed in 1990. The group was created when nineteen-year-old college student Kathleen Hanna met with author Kathy Acker, whose writing focused on forms of sexual extremity. Acker advised Hanna that she should be in a band as there is more of a community for musicians than for writers, understanding that people were more likely to go and see a band as opposed to a spoken word gig. Although at first feeling rejected, she eventually took the advice and formed Bikini Kill with Tobi Vail on drums, Billy Karren on guitar and Kathi Wilcox on bass. Vail had been writing and publishing Jigsaw, a feminist zine that Hanna appreciated. Together they created further zines which focused on feminist issues, radical politics, punk rock and a do it yourself aesthetic, providing a national system of support for females in music. Through the mix of their political lyrics, confrontational live shows and publications, the precise nature of community that Kathy Acker had been referring to was born. Bikini Kill and lead singer Kathleen Hanna in particular are credited with instigating the movement known as Riot Grrrl, shorthand for the feminist music activism of the decade. While instrumental in the production of an influential zine and a member of the scenes most passionately discussed band, Hanna stiffens at the suggestion that she was the leader of the Riot Grrrl movement.