On the Ted Radio hour, linguist Ann Curzan says she gets a lot of complaints about people using the pronoun they to refer to one person.
I sometimes get into arguments with people where they will say to me, but it can't be singular.
And I will say, but it is.
The history behind words causing a lot of debate.
That's on the Ted radio hour from NPR.
He took the bomb from why yy in Philadelphia.
I'm Tanya Moseley with fresh air weekend today.
Musician, artist, activist and punk pioneer Kathleen Hanna.
With her band Bikini Kill, she helped form a movement challenging the misogyny in punk in the 1990s.
She describes how she wrote the iconic song Rebel Girl while playing in a small, sweaty basement.
At the time, the riot girl movement was just beginning.
It felt like the scene of punk women that I was hanging out with and that I was becoming friends with really wrote that song and I just like grabbed it from the air.
Also, actor Tyler James Williams shares the motivation behind his role as a no nonsense teacher on the hit series Abbott elementary.
And book critic Maureen Corrigan will review Claire Massoud's new novel that's coming up on FResh AIR Weekend.
This is FRESH AIR Weekend.
I'm Tanya Mosley.
Our first guest today is the co founder of the so called Riot Girl movement, musician, writer and artist Kathleen Hanna.
Her new memoir is called Rebel Girl, which is also the name of one of the best known songs by her band Bikini Kill.
Kathleen Hanna recently spoke about her life and work with fresh airs.
Anne Marie Baldonado we're bikini kill and we want revolution.