#actually roma

[guyshay-eater]

There are more important things than Rom calling ourselves “Gypsy”/“Gypsies.” Even when guyshay (ignorantly with no ill intent) use the term to refer to us. Please exert this energy to defending our people in Europe who face disgusting discrimination and oppression, and educating others on the Holocaust, Roma slavery, and the misogyny and racism Roma women specifically have faced from guyshay. Speak on the sterilization and genocide of our people, not MCU movies. Speak on protecting our children. Speak on hate crimes. That’s how you be a real ally instead of tokenizing us and the oppression we’ve gone through for brownie points and to feel like a white savior.

Our people are killed in hate crimes with no justice. Our people were slaughtered, experimented on, and tortured with no justice/reparations or representation in the Nuremberg trials.

[yourfaveisantiroma]

Te Aven Baxtale!

Sastipe! I'm Bleu (he/him) and I am Manouche Rroma. This blog was inspired by the efforts of Alinah Nadee @antinativefaves / Your Fave is Anti Native on X.

This is my place to educate on my culture and to call-out the often racist stereotypical depictions of Romani people and Culture in various media.

Terms used on this blog:

Gadje/Gadji/Gadjo - These are all terms that mean not Romani. Gadjo (non-Romani man) and Gadji (non-Romani woman) are gendered terms and the term that is equivalent to they (meaning both multiple people and gender neutrality) is Gadje.

Gypsy- while some view it as a slur, it is not the worst slur for our people. That would be any form of Tzigan, which comes from the Greek word for SLAVE. I will not censor this word (gypsy) unless the context is specifically pejorative.

Gypsy is kind of like calling American indigenous people Ndns. Some are fine with it, most are not.

There are groups who call themselves gypsies such as Irish travelers, but they are NOT Roma.

Romanipen - this is what makes us Roma. It means you were born into and/or raised in the culture, have taken significant steps to reassimilate, or have done something that makes us embrace you as one of us.

You are NOT Romani even if your mother/father was romani but they didn't teach you anything about the culture. This simply means that you are of descent (ethnically Romani) and not actually Romani.

Marime/Wuzho - a cultural impurity/uncleanliness similar to Islamic haram or Jewish kosher. Wuzho is the opposite of marime.

Simple example: Everything above the waist (with the exception of hands) is Wuzho. Everything below the waist, especially the genitals, is marime. Hands are the only part that can be both.

Dead things (including ghosts) and things associated with death and sickness are highly marime.

[rromaleo]

My family have been tarot readers for generations, and a fair few of us have been great amongst our countries peers. I should have been gifted my first deck by another tarot reader in the family. But that wasn’t possible.

My mother never really got tarot, never really cared that much for the legacy of the Romany women before us, but when she found out I was she tried her best and bought me a deck and some guides.

I may not have had it the same as everyone that came before me, but I shall still try to do my family proud

[cyberr-v0id]

Finding out that Elvis Presley was Romani is like. Ohhhh so *thats * why so many of my mums generation were named after his daughter. Not just because he was famous

[pigdemonart]

GUESS WHO IS COMING TO DINNER?

Going to see the movie later today motivated me to clean up some sketches. Poor Mario…he is really trying to be a good brother here.

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[leonsliga]

the Italian sun definitely suits him 🥵

[huntedsmark]

THE FOX a comic about my PC Roma and his relationship with his favorite person in the whole world, Rudolph Van Richten

[honey-makes-mogai]

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Vuneroma -

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A nongender umbrella term to describe ones scent, wether this be ones perceived scent, the scent one associates with oneself, the scent one has in fantasies or headspace, what one wishes to smell like, and/or anything that associates with scent and one’s own scent!

Suffix: -roma

Example term:

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Sandalwoodroma -

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A vuneroma term for when one is sandalwood scented, or one’s scent is that of sandalwood! This may be ones perceived scent, the scent one associates with oneself, the scent one has in fantasies or headspace, what one wishes to smell like, and/or anything that associates with scent and one’s own scent!

Tagging: @radiomogai @obscurian

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[weepingwillow2000]

“Bu-but it would be hard for [INSERT BIG FRANCHISE NAME HERE] to h-hire Romani actors cause there’s not many-" bro Nosferatu did it why can’t they?

There is no excuse anymore.

[outrageousfragarian]

lazy glasses edit

[catilinas]

do you guys remember the steven saylor book where the real marcus tullius cicero kidnaps the protagonist (trying to solve the murder of clodius) and traps him in a literal plot hole for months. and he has to eat rats

[undaughtered]

its 2024 and decolonial literature has been writing about the racial implications of wuthering heights for twenty years now and still we got the whitest man alive, literally two white australians, for the wuthering heights casting

[yourfaveisantiroma]

Your fave is anti-Roma: The entire "Boho" Fashion Aesthetic.

The entirety of the "Bohemian" aesthetic exists because of Romani cultural appropriation. As explained by Florian here:

Before it stole from Indigenous and Black cultures, it stole from Romani culture. It started as a french art movement called Bohemianism in the mid to late 1800s. Bohemian to the french at the time was similar to the Gypsy term, as in instead of thinking we came from Egypt that we came from Bohemia (Modern Day Czech republic). The Bohemians themselves were a romani group that were completely wiped out during the Holocaust.

Bohemianism was started by rich white gadje who exoticized and romanticized us.

I'm not saying that you have to completely abandon this aesthetic, just acknowledge it's racist origins and the connotations of it.

[rromaleo]

Something that’s really sad to me is that there is basically no online Roma community anymore

Bbc used to have a message board for Romany teens, and they still do, but no one has used it since 2005, and those teens that were on it will be adults now, and plenty with their own kids now

Rumblr used to be an active, thriving space, but most people left, and now there’s only a few of us

The Romani Reddit imploded on itself and now there isn’t one

The only things I can thing of are the tik tok communities, which aren’t close knit and are super toxic from what I’ve seen and heard, and the discord, which it’s hard to track down a link for

[cyberr-v0id]

The reason why I don’t watch or read the hunchback of notre dame is because it perpetrates the (obviously awful and incredibly harmful) stereotype that Romani people steal children and raise them as their own

[skepticalcatfrog]

Given that I have so many edits in my mind but there isn't a screen adaptation of the Secret Shanghai books (or even a sign of one), I may have to retreat from the age of editing and teach myself how to animate so I can instead make. animatics.