SEATTLE — There wasn't really a script. But it'd be tough to write a better one.
Feminist punk icons Bikini Kill hadn't played a full show together in more than two decades when the Olympia-formed band announced a trio of 2019 comeback gigs in Los Angeles and New York.
A few months earlier, the nation was gripped by now-Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation hearings, resulting in a man accused of sexual assault assuming one of our country's highest positions of moral authority. He'd been chosen by a president who once boasted about grabbing women's crotches and, at the time, Kavanaugh's appointment felt like a blow to the snowballing #MeToo movement.
