#International Romani Day

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Happy International Romani Day from Mod Luxray, this blogs resident Rroma!! Me mangav tut! Dja devlesa!!

[perseph]

Baxtalo Romano Dives, today is International Romani Day, and the 52nd anniversary of the first World Romani Congress.

This is a day to celebrate Romani culture, commemorate our history, and bring awareness and action to the many social and political struggles we still face to this day as a racialized minority. Learn more: [x][x][x]

Read this investigation on anti-Romani racism and police profiling in America, which was written with help from the podcast Roma Unravelled

Follow Romanistan, support the show [x][x], and the hosts [x][x]. I particularly recommend these episodes if you're looking cultural /historical context on things like witchcraft or fortunetelling. [x][x]

Check out this brilliant list of Romani feminist articles/resources compiled by soledadmiranda

🎶🎵 Listen to this playlist of music by Romani artists

🎭🎤Check out Giuvlipen, the Roma feminist theatre company, and listen to Tehno-Vrăjitoarele, the debut album by Niko G. x Kali

🎨🪡Check out some of my favorite artists and vendors [x][x][x][x]

🌿🌱Learn about herbalism from a Romani healer

🌒🌕🌘 Consider booking a reading or ritual, or purchasing supplies and resources, from Romani practitioners [x][x][x][x][x][x]; including the Living Altar, a ritual tool and oracle deck created by Romani artists; check out this grimoire zine (I'm in it!); and learn more about tarot's foundation in Romani culture.

[vitsa-didicoy]

Happy International Romani Day

Today is also the total solar eclipse across North America and it was very cool to see for myself.

But in the Romani context, this day is important for us to celebrate our culture, learn about our history, and to advocate for Romani rights across the world.

If you aren’t Romani but still wish to observe this day, then I invite you to visit the website for the European Roma Rights Centre where various articles can be found on Romani life, as well as the various forms of oppression we are subject to. It’s a very valuable resource for learning about Romani Rights.

Another valuable source of information that is more easily digestible are the shorts and videos made by Florian Tacorian on YouTube and TikTok. He’s Kalderash from Romania and his videos shed light on daily life for Roma, our traditions and culture, as well as how our culture is perceived by outsiders and misrepresented.

Take this day as an opportunity to learn and appreciate our culture, as it makes you a better ally when advocating for our equal rights.

As for my Romani siblings across the world, things are getting better and I personally see gadje changing their views on Roma as they get more educated, even in real life. Stay vigilant and stay safe, but have faith in your neighbors and be proud of who you are.

Te aven baxtalo 💙❤️💚

[doomrichards]

Happy International Romani Day!

To celebrate the real #InternationalRomaniDay, this post will cover the fictional Rom Dr. Victor von Doom. In Fantastic Four Special #1 "My Dinner with Doom", Doom uses the Rapprochement Festival to invite Reed Richards over to dinner.

Dr. Doom sets the mood for Reed with Haydn's Quartet in F Minor. Opus 20 No. 4 is said by Haydn to be "in the [Romani] style". (the z-word, an exonym which comes from Greek for untouchables should not be used) Opus 20 No. 5 is what’s performed on page.

Doom has prepared Romani cuisine that were his mother's favorites for his dinner with Reed. The first named dish is sarma: cabbage leaves stuffed with rice, minced meat, and spices. As for the rest, I'm unsure if some are simply for the fictional Latveria or based on a real dish.

The care and intimacy with which Doom planned his date with Reed is significant. To invite Reed over and share his mom and culture's cuisine is no small thing for Doom. If I made any error in this post please let me know. Any insight and further comments welcome!

[cuntryhuman]

reminder; Saint Sarah/Sara isn't her full name. Its Sara-La-Kâli

[murderousink23]

04/08/2024 is International Romani Day 🌎, National All is Ours Day 🇺🇸, National Empanada Day 🥟🇺🇸, National Zoo Lovers Day 🇺🇸

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Happy International Romani Day from Mod Luxray, this blogs resident Rroma!! Me mangav tut! Dja devlesa!!

[subby-sab]

Today is 8th of April.

Today is International Romani Day, International Pageant Day, National Empanada Day, National Zoo Lovers Day.

[dannydevitosthiccdog]

Happy International Romani Day!!

[birches-and-hawks]

crawling out of my cave to wish a very happy international romani day to everyone but specifically to eastern european romas

eastern europe doesnt deserve you, you're amazing and wonderful and I appreciate you very much 💕

[arcadialedger]

Any know any good fiction books with Roma characters?

I’m looking to gather a TBR since today is International Roma Day.

[cuntryhuman]

its international romani day, now give me money

[murderousink23]

04/08/2023 is International Romani Day 🌏, Lazarus Saturday 🌏, National All is Ours Day 🇺🇲, National Empanada Day 🥟🇺🇲, National Zoo Lovers Day 🇺🇲, National Catch and Release Day 🎣🇺🇲

[janusfranc15]

Thank you for telling me about it. I didn’t know it existed. (I did about the Romani in the holocaust- but not the date of international Romani Remembrance).

Oh hey it's the 2nd of August. It's international Romani genocide memorial day. 79 years and still the vast majority of countries don't give a fuck about it nor recognize it. Hell on Earth everywhere

[dontforgetukraine]

August 2nd marks the International Day of Remembrance of the Roma Genocide Victims.

On the night of August 2-3, 1944, around 3,000 Roma prisoners were killed in gas chambers in the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp. It took 52 years for this day of remembrance to be established, which was spearheaded by leaders of Roma organizations from 10 European countries and the USA.

Ukraine has observed this day since 2004. In this remembrance, there are 140 places of mass execution of Roma by the Nazis in Ukraine.

Babyn Yar was one of them. In September 2016, a memorial monument was put in place of a Roma tent covered in bullet holes from machine gun fire.

"Babyn Yar is a horror for Gypsies. They died without even knowing what they were being killed for,” says Roma writer Rani Romani (Raisa Nabaranchuk),whose grandmother died there.

On this day, the Holodomor Museum reminds us that, "it is crucial to emphasize again that human life is of the highest value, and human rights require unquestionable observance. Disrespecting and neglecting them leads to the gravest crimes."

[sleepynegress]

*sigh* Featurism...

So, I woke up to this shit on the Twit app and I've only hit on this issue before, but today I'm digging in. Colorism is something that is not addressed often enough, but intersected within that and even more rarely spoken about, is the issue of featurism. The young actress above just got cast as Juliet in the latest big staged prestige production of Romeo and Juliet, opposite Tom Holland. And as usual the blue-checks, everybody else including "black", and even Black regulars are all-in on the cruelty.

...But I want to breakdown a nuance that is too often skipped over when this happens. The two people named with her, give away the featurism game, here; a particularly nasty form of often internalized racism. I guarantee if the young actress looked like this?

She'd definitely still get racist attacks, but the particularly nasty shit I'm seeing attacking her looks wouldn't come. In fact, I could see some people thinking they are defending her with "but she's pretty!" or more specific... "obviously she's mixed" comments. -Something pretty much every Black woman with features that don't align with a narrow perception of blackness hear often (and we'll get to why I specified women in a minute). And don't get it twisted...

These aren't exclusively nor standard white features either (see: the many ethnic features w/in white ethnic groups that also get hit to a lesser and non-racialized degree such as large "hook" and/or Romanesque noses for example, which is definitely about anti-semitism, anti-Romani sentiment, and other disparaged/discriminated against ethnic minorities in Europe) and yes, blue eyes are naturally occurring within non-mixed and dark-skinned Black people due to a mutation called Waardenburg syndrome. But there is a REASON why fetishizing even certain ethnic features within the African continental diaspora has been a thing for a long time...i.e. "the dopest Ethiopian" from the Tribe Called Quest lyric is pictured as this:

and this:

and not this:

...despite them all being Ethiopians of various tribal ethnicities.

A wide-nose, a tighter curl, coil, or zig-zag pattern of hair, fuller lips and often, but not always (because I've given examples above where features "mitigate" skin color) darker skin. Zendaya is grouped with Tracey and Francesca Amewudah-Rivers, despite being both lighter in skin color and having a Black parent and a white parent because her nose isn't what has become the standard surgical look...that too many celebs have. This includes the ones who got so-called "ethnic" work or just a slight 'refinement'. No, her nose is born w/it, made for that good African air, as I call it. Nostrils prominent, nose bridge wide:

I went make-up free as well, because even make-up practices these days, go for that narrowing highlight technique i.e. just below it's subtle.

Sza is a an example of it taken to extremes, even with the Hollywood standard "ethnic" refinement she did get.

The thing is... I don't blame or attack her for that. Because you see above that is just a taste of what happens. Lil' Kim was relentlessly bullied by the men in her life for her ethnic features for her whole life...and that is why she is off-limits to this day for me when it comes to all the work she's had done.

...And this is where I explain why I specified men being mostly exempt. It's because "Blackness" including all the physical features associated with it, is by default masculinized. ...Which is why Idris Elba is considered one of the most handsome men in the world, w/o the caveats that even Lupita Nyong'o often gets. Nobody calls Samuel L. Jackson ugly. He is even idolized and fetishized by a specifically white male gaze for how culturally "Black" he is perceived to be for all the wrong reasons, his signature "motherfucka" for example (and I could go off on a whole other tangent here, but digressing). All this to say... Featurism sucks. It's not talked about enough. Blackness in all variations is Beautiful. Tracy Chapman looking as young she does?? Hell, mark it down to both her dark skin (a natural UV protector) and not messing with her given features (and being a lesbian, men will age you. lol -I got jokes-):

P.S. THANK GOODNESS for Tems and her rising prominence as a beauty as well:

P.P.S. Even Jay-Z the billionaire rapper has had the comments over the years about his lips and nose, hence that lyric in Beyonce's Formation.