“If we’re already moshing and I see you might want to come for me in the pit because I stick out a bit, then that’s really the place when I say, ‘OK, let’s let out that aggression here.’” “I usually funnel it into the music,” she said. But Long has no problem standing her ground. To be a black woman in metal parallels being a black woman in America: You’re forced to navigate a mostly white male space where people constantly question your right to be there. That’s what’s nice about both zine-making and metal music.” “It might take you awhile to find that person, but they’re there. “After a certain amount of time, you start to see there is someone out there like you,” she said.
Long, who has a master’s in printmaking from the Art Institute of Chicago, travels to events like Punx of Color to sell issues and build community. It has been archived in libraries at MoMA PS1 and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
In the four years since its launch, BLKGRLSWURLD has sold an average of 500 copies per issue. Whereas the 2003 film Afro-Punk was a somber study of blackness in the punk scene, BLKGRLSWURLD is a celebration of black womanhood in the same space. Along with her siblings and co-founders, Courtney and William, she has given a voice to a marginalized group within an already underground community. Long founded BLKGRLSWURLD, a bi-annual zine “for heavy girls who love heavy music,” shortly after.
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