Later, Hanna started another band called Viva Knievel that toured the United States for two months before disbanding. Upon returning to Olympia, Hanna began collaborating with Evergreen student and punk zinester Tobi Vail after seeing a performance of The Go-Team (a band made up of Vail, Billy Karren, and Calvin Johnson) and recognizing Vail as the mastermind behind the fanzine "Jigsaw", which Hanna greatly admired and loved. The band, named Bikini Kill, soon became part of the seminal Olympia, Washington music scene of the early 1990s. One goal of the band was to inspire more women to join the male-dominated punk rock scene. While Bikini Kill were in Washington, D.C., Kathleen recorded with two side projects, Suture (with Sharon Cheslow and Dug E. Bird) and Wondertwins (with Tim Green of Nation of Ulysses. Bikini Kill, Suture, and Wondertwins all performed at the International Pop Underground Convention in August 1991.