On episode 16 of Red Lens Podcast, I sat down for a conversation with Shawna Kenney. Shawna is co-author of the oral history⁠ Live at the Safari Club: A History of HarDCore Punk in the Nation’s Capital 1988-1998⁠’ and publisher of the photo zine ⁠All Access: Bands on Film⁠. She is also the author of the memoir I Was a Teenage Dominatrix, editor of the anthology Book Lovers: Sexy Stories from Under the Covers, and co-author of Imposters. On her website Shawna says she was “raised in the Washington DC area on a steady diet of Fugazi, I’ve always been a radical grrrl living in a capitalist world, digging for story.”

We talk about all of the above and more in this interview! 

Shawna Kenney’s website

Shawna on Instagram

Shawna’s Substack

Buy Live at the Safari Club

Buy All Access: Bands on Film

Shawna’s collection at the University of Maryland punk archive

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The intro/outro song in this episode is ‘Zapatista garage punk instrumental’ by Joshua Hudes. You can find it here.

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