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What are you doing here? A black woman’s love affair with heavy metal
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TORONTO – Laina Dawes has been a heavy metal music journalist and photographer for 20 years. In that time, she’s learned black females aren’t always welcome.
The heavy metal scene is populated mostly by white males, and the reactions Laina has gotten range from curious stares to outright racism.
“I went to cover Metallica at [the Air Canada Centre] in 2009 and that was just totally insane,” she says. “I had guys making gorilla noises at me when I walked by. I had a couple people call me the ‘N’ word.”
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Laina has loved metal since she was a girl, growing up with her white adopted family in Kingston, Ontario in the 1970s.
“I realized I was different from the time I was five. The realization that you are only, the only black person, or onl
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