[2][7][8] During adolescence she ran away repeatedly, used drugs and alcohol, made multiple suicide attempts and lived in the streets for months at a time.
[2] While squatting with a group of other teenagers in the abandoned San Francisco Polytechnic High School, she participated in the documentary Sadobabies.
[2] She would go on to start other groups in her teen years, such as Virgin Mary's Diary and Baby Alive, in which Kjel Anderson played bass.
[2] The two went on to become close friends, and to create the Insaints in 1988, with Anderson writing songs and singing lead and Deleon playing guitar.
[2] During a show at 924 Gilman Street, Anderson was reported to have performed acts such as urination for sexual gratification, oral copulation, vaginal penetration with bananas, and fornication with a fist.
"[6][2][10] Anderson claimed her acts were protected speech under the First Amendment, stating "The songs reflect my own personal feelings and society's and religion's repression of sexuality.
[2] Four years after Anderson's death, the Insaints' first album Sins of Saints was released by Duane Peters' Disaster Records.