With Cynthia Connolly and Leslie Clague, she compiled the seminal photographic punk oral history book "Banned In DC: Photos and Anecdotes from the DC Punk Underground (79-85)" in 1988, which documented the early 1980s Washington, DC hardcore punk scene. The book included flyers from Cheslow's punk flyer collection and some of her photographs, as well as photographs and flyers from Connolly, Clague, and others such as Lucian Perkins. Cheslow's first issue of "Interrobang?!" was published in 1989 with a Nation of Ulysses interview. Cheslow was also in a one-off project with Fugazi's Joe Lally.