Shawna Kenney, punk rock writer and publisher, catches up with her old friend Sander about various adventures in punk, book writing, & indie media. Includes memories of old friends, including Ian MacKaye, Fugazi, and the new news of Shawna's upcoming event at the Punk Rock Museum, Las Vegas, NV.

biographical info:

Shawna Kenney was raised in the Washington, DC area on a steady diet of Fugazi. She is the author of the award-winning memoir I Was a Teenage Dominatrix (Last Gasp), editor of the anthology Book Lovers: Sexy Stories from Under the Covers (Seal Press), co-author of Imposters (Mark Batty Publisher), and co-author of the oral history Live at the Safari Club: A History of HarDCore Punk in the Nation’s Capital 1988-1998 (Rare Bird Books).

Kenney is a Contributing Editor with Narratively and her nonfiction work has appeared in The New York Times, Playboy, Creative Nonfiction, Vice, The Rumpus, Bust, Salon and more.

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There’s a group in the Middle East that brings together Israelis and Palestinians who refuse to keep engaging in violence.

They are called Combatants for Peace. They are Israeli veterans and former Palestinian fighters, who have realized that war is a real dead end. They engage in dialogue and meetings, and get connected rather than engage in more bloodshed.

With all the new evidence of Gaza genocide, it seems more and more important that we as a global society take a new look at nonviolence and how to create dialogue rather than war.

Monks and Punks' Sander Hicks interviews Palestinian activist in the West Bank who speaks for Combatants for Peace. Her name is Mai Shahin. this is our interview. she is a dedicated activist, and from her words, you will learn a hell of a lot of new information about what it’s like to be a Palestinian today, in a world oppressed by war, but holding onto the light, working for peace.

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