ROMA VOICES IN HISTORY. A Sourcebook. Volume Editors: Elena Marushiakova
and Vesselin Popov. #Brill#OpenAccess#Book 2021
"This ground-breaking book is an impressively extensive collection of primary historical sources in various languages that reflect the history of the Roma (formerly referred to as ‘Gypsies’ in local languages). The selection of the included materials reflects the authentic voice of the Roma themselves, and presents their visions and the specific goals pursued by the Roma civic emancipation movement. The source materials are published in original and translated in English, and are accompanied by explanatory notes and summarising comments discussing the specific historical realities and their interrelation to the Romani emancipatory movement in Central and Eastern Europe, thus presenting a comprehensive picture of the historical processes."
Nata con un fratricidio (e l'omicida a sua volta fu, probabilmente, assassinato e smembrato), sopravvissuta grazie a uno stupro di massa, divenuta grande per mezzo di guerre e razzie. #Roma2777
"Ma dopo di noi non ci sono più altre tribù, ma soltanto scogli e onde e un flagello ancora peggiore, i #romani contro la cui prepotenza non servono come difesa neppure la sottomissione e l'umiltà. Razziatori del mondo, adesso che la loro sete di universale saccheggio ha reso esausta la terra, vanno a cercare anche in mare: avidi se il nemico è ricco, arroganti se povero, gente che né l'oriente né l'occidente possono saziare. Loro bramano possedere con uguale smania ricchezze e miseria. Rubano, massacrano, rapinano e, con falso nome, lo chiamano impero. Fanno il deserto, e lo chiamano pace"
Calgaco nell'Agricola di Tacito
Fleeing from war, the experience of Romani people in Germany differs from that of other Ukrainians. They often encounter racism instead of help. More than 1.1 million people have fled to Germany as a result of the war in Ukraine — including an estimated several thousand Romani refugees, members of Europe's largest minority....
At the #InternationalRomaDay celebration, I committed to:
🔹champion the human rights of #Romani people
🔹initiate and nurture an ongoing dialogue with Romani people across Europe
🔹engage with Romani youth
🔹support Romani women and girls as agents of change
wenn die #deutsche führung so sehr darauf bedacht ist, vergangenheit zu korrigieren, indem sie sich auf die seite israels stellt, wo sind dann ähnliche gesetze und entschädigungen für das viertel der gesamten Roma-bevölkerung?
5 millionen nicht-jüdische opfer des holocaust.keine gerechtigkeit für sie,warum?
andernfalls, beim wiederaufbau eines militärs,beteiligen sie sich wieder offen an einer weiß-supranationalen sache?müssen wir das wirklich wieder tun?
Die Ringvorlesung „UniRomnja“ beleuchtet eine Bandbreite historischer und aktueller Arbeiten zu #Feminismus und feministischen Forschungsthemen aus #Romani und #Sinti Perspektiven.
Nächster Termin: 23. Januar, 16 Uhr.
Die Veranstaltung wird gestreamt. Zudem werden simultane Englisch-Deutsch-Übersetzungen und Schriftdolmetschen angeboten.
In ihrem Vortrag am 9. Januar geht Alexandra Oprea der Frage nach, ob #Romani-Stimmen ausreichend berücksichtigt werden und inwiefern das Konzept der #Intersektionalität die Diskurse in Europa geprägt hat.
Die Veranstaltung wird gestreamt. Zudem werden simultane Englisch-Deutsch-Übersetzungen und Schriftdolmetschen angeboten.
With it being New Years Day, lots of folks today are playing Auld Lang Syne, easily Scotland's most recognizable folk tune. Few know that Burns is said to have transcribed our modern version from a Romanichal gentleman he heard singing it likely down near Hawick on the Scottish borders!
I want to specifically highlight and uplift the Scottish Romani, as this is the group I have blood in common with, though discrimination is widespread across Europe and the Americas, which is a shame considering the Scottish Romanichal contributions to the country's history, culture, music, and their unique connection to the land. Despite this, their unique localized dialect, Scottish Cant, only has approximately 500 speakers left, and they often find themselves at the end of particularly cruel and unusual discrimination, including the Scottish equivalent of CPS having regularly taken Romanichal and Traveller children from their families for decades without legal grounds, purely on the basis of ethnic background, up until shockingly recent.
Many in the UK especially find themselves unable to avoid being recognized as Roma, leading them to be refused from public spaces and restaurants, with others who are more white-passing being afraid to be open about their cultural heritage. Nowadays they regularly find themselves placed on the outskirts of society in poor housing conditions. Prejudice against the Romani is amongst the single most-normalized forms of racism in Europe, but especially in the wider UK as their numbers dwindle to nearly nothing.
To help financially and build awareness, I definitely recommend checking out The Traveller Movement travellermovement.org.uk and worldwide at www.voiceofroma.com. I'll post better links as I find them.
I'm continuing my "following folktales around the world" blog series with a spinoff: reading folktale collections from Hungarian Roma traditional storytellers.
First up: Jóni Ferenc, with talent for putting unexpected twists on well known tale types, and using elaborate cursing to color his tales for adults. His empathy shines through as well. I found many favorites in this book.
Today In Labor History September 29, 1941: Nazi forces, with the aid of the Ukrainian auxiliary police and local Ukrainian collaborators, began the two-day Babi Yar massacre, killing some 33,771 Jews. Other victims included Soviet prisoners of war, communists and Romani people. It was the largest single massacre in the Holocaust up to that date, and the 3rd largest, overall, after the 1941 Odessa massacre (>50,000 victims) and Aktion Erntefest of November 1943 in occupied Poland (> 42,000 victims). During the Nazi occupation, up to 150,000 people in total were murdered at Babi Yar.
Just discovered a Scottish-Romani man on Tiktok named Dean Rheims who is trying to make #GRTFuturism a thing. It started off with his story of a vardo spaceship, and now I have
SO.
MANY.
IDEAS.
Im in my sci-fi arc, folks. There's so much you can do with this.
@Merzedotes If you enjoy #Romani music, I have a playlist on my YouTube channel you might like https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL77954DAEE722A285&si=NLmoy_unrDRs9BcV There’s another playlist on my channel called “Balkan Beats” that also has some of this style of music. No shortage of great music in the Canadian Maritimes, tho… I’m partial to Cape Breton Island fiddle.
Neil Gaiman is adapting Samuel Delany's Nova to a TV series apparently?
This is one of the very few American SF novels that has a major character who's Romani (Pontichos Provechi, the Mouse), so I really hope they will in fact hire a Romani actor to play him....
>As stagnating Ron DeSantis slashes his campaign staff with a mass firing — and more expected firings are in the works — his donors seem none too pleased with how he has mismanaged his presidential run.
I just bought a new book! A herbarium of plants in Hungarian Roma folklore. 🥰🌿🌳🌼 Published by the Association of 21st Century Roman Women. I have the bestiary of the same series, it's pretty great. And cites the folklore sources at the end.
A former Illinois police officer, along with a 501c3 nonprofit private national policing organization, has been teaching Law Enforcement Officers to racially profile & think of Romani People in racialized terms, our investigation of two decades of policing trainings has revealed. #lawenforcement#investigation#romani
Ukraine's Romani people face discrimination in Germany (www.dw.com)
Fleeing from war, the experience of Romani people in Germany differs from that of other Ukrainians. They often encounter racism instead of help. More than 1.1 million people have fled to Germany as a result of the war in Ukraine — including an estimated several thousand Romani refugees, members of Europe's largest minority....