At the D.C. Punk Archive, history isn’t bound in thread and shelved. It’s found in stapled sheets of printer paper stacked in file boxes, many of which remain unsorted. Since taking over as archivist earlier this year, Katie Lichtle-Mullenix has instituted twice-monthly volunteer nights to process the more than 50 boxes formerly belonging to Mark Andersen, co-founder of the local punk activist collective Positive Force. During a recent Wednesday night session at Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, archival CDs by Lungfish, Del Cielo, and of course Fugazi played from an AV cart while a dozen community members pored over Andersen’s correspondences, flyers, and collected zines—artifacts of a DIY print culture that continues to evolve alongside the District’s punk scene.

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