Olivia Rodrigo's women-led Daisy Chain Fields festival put the power in fans' hands

"Who here loves Bikini Kill?" asked the feminist organizer Sonya Passi on-stage at Olivia Rodrigo's Daisy Chain Fields festival in Irvine, Calif., on Saturday.Under a merciless, 94-degree sun, the crowd roared.Passi had just identified herself as the founder of FreeFrom, a non-profit working to end gender-based violence by providing survivors with material support.

It's one of 10 organizations benefitting from the $20 million raised by the inaugural edition of Rodrigo's one-day, women-led concert, which brought together the likes of Chappell Roan, The Breeders, Stevie Nicks and Doechii for an intergenerational audience of about 45,000."Bikini Kill helped teach an entire generation that you don't wait for permission to be loud about what matters," Passi said of the '90s feminist punk icons, who now faced thousands of girls for whom the band's galvanic anthems, like "Double Dare Ya" and "Rebel Girl," were designed.Frontwoman Kathleen Hanna didn't waste a second cutting through to them.

"A lot of us feel like this government f****** hates us and wants us dead," she said before Bikini Kill played a note."They don't give a s*** about anybody's healthcare.

They don't care if we die in parking lots of curable illnesses.They don't care if our rights are taken away.

They're ripping people off the streets.It makes it hard for me in my body sometimes to have a good time 'cause it's hard to turn it off.

And I was thinking on the way here, what a gift to be able to play for you.What a gift Olivia has given all of us to do this festival." Then Bikini Kill instigated its intervention of Revolution Girl Style Now! as young women in T-shirts proclaiming "Girls to the Front" and "F*** AI" screamed.With proceeds going to organizations like Center for Reproductive Rights and National Women's Law Center, the first Daisy Chain was an extension of Rodrigo's consistent outspokenness about both abortion access and her musical heroes, who've influenced the pop star's emotional clarity ...