We love Carrie.

Carrie Brownstein is well known for the caricatures she paints — of her contemporaries and of herself.

Her IFC show Portlandia, created with Fred Armisen, premiered its eighth and final season on January 18. The show has grown to be loved by many for its incisive humor and intelligent silliness about the idiosyncracies of the urban left (and resented by some real-life Portlandians for the same reason). Brownstein is currently adapting her 2015 memoir, Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl, for a Hulu pilot that promises to portray her life and ascent — coming of age in the Pacific Northwest, finding a community in the riot grrrl movement and breaking out nationally with her band Sleater-Kinney — with a similar sincerity.

On this episode of It’s Been a Minute, Brownstein reflects on the arc of Portlandia, the relevance of riot grrrl to contemporary conversations about feminism and managing the anxiety that comes with performance.

Carrie Brownstein Is The ‘Unabashed Protagonist’ Of Her Own Story

Carrie, No Cities to Love Tour, 2015

Aries: high kick

Taurus: lying on the floor

Gemini: leaning on corin

Cancer: pointing at corin mid-song

Leo: standing on janet’s drum kit

Virgo: holding guitar above head with one hand

Libra: literally dry humping a guitar

Scorpio: knocking over the mic stand

Sagittarius: jumping in air

Capricorn: fancy footwork aka doin a lil shuffle

Aquarius: marching in place

Sleater-Kinney, The Hard Rock

Made this painting last year for Pitchfork.

Gouache on watercolor paper

8″x8″