Johanna Fateman

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Johanna Fateman, probably best known as a member of the band Le Tigre, attended Reed College of Portland, Oregon -- notorious for academic excellence contrasted with an unconventional grading system -- where, Fateman writes, she "started making a fanzine called Snarla with my best friend from high school, Miranda July."

Fateman went on to pen such titles as My Need to Speak on the Subject of Jackson Pollock and ArtaudMania!!!, the latter of which detailed Fateman's hilarious in-class feuds with an abrasive art professor.

She met Kathleen Hanna at a Bikini Kill show, and the two became fast friends when Fateman gave Hanna a zine. Fateman dropped out of Reed and, when Hanna moved to town, they embarked on their first musical collaboration. After Fateman graduated art school in New York City, Kathleen Hanna moved up to the east coast. They formed Le Tigre and never looked back.