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[vitsa-didicoy]

How to Donate to the Domari Society of Gypsies in Jerusalem

As many of you may know, the Domari community in Palestine is suffering alongside native Palestinians in the genocidal campaign headed by Israel.

Though we do not know much of the Domari's struggles in detail, I can only imagine it is the same extent as the Palestinians' struggles.

The Domari Society was founded by director Amoun Sleem in 2000 and since then she and her staff have done incredible things for the Domari, including providing resources and education to women and children.

On the Domari Society website, there is information on how to send donations via bank transfer, but considering that their main avenue may not be the most accessible to share and donate, I am making this post providing a step-by-step guide on how to donate to the Domari Society of Gypsies in Jerusalem.

This method works only if you have a PayPal and/or Xoom account (Xoom is owned by PayPal so if you only have PP, you can still donate.)

Step-by-Step:

Click this [link] here. It will take you to Xoom's page for sending money to Israel (Jerusalem is occupied by Israel, so it must be through them). Make sure you are signed in to either Xoom or PayPal.

Enter a minimum amount of 35.66 shekels (minimum 10.01 USD) to send. Click (Send Now) to progress to the next page.

3. Confirm information on screen and click (Next).

4. Select (Bank Deposit) and click (Next).

5. When selecting a bank, click (Other) and it will bring you to a page where you must enter the IBAN number of the bank you want to send money to. The IBAN for the Domari Society's bank is IL040176380000002503877 (copy and paste this exactly). Confirm that the bank is Mercantile Discount Bank Ltd and click (Next).

6. Enter in contact information. It is as follows: First Name: Domari Last Name: Society Address 1: Shua'fat, Derech Shua'fat 10 City: Jerusalem Phone Number: +97225324510 Email: domarisociety@gmail.com

7. Enter any information required and choose your payment option. On the last page, confirm the information listed and if everything is correct, click (Send).

Bank transfer may take a few days, but congratulations! You just donated to the Domari Society of Gypsies in Jerusalem. Know that your contribution will go towards the betterment of the Domari in Palestine.

Also, most information is found on the Domari Society's website, so if you wish to confirm that the donation is legitimate you can check the bank details here: [link]

Please share this whether you donate or not, it could mean life or death for Dom under occupation. May we all see a day where our people are safe. Te aven baxtalo 💙❤️💚

[sysboxes]

[ Alt. Boxes for International Romani Day]

[Text; This system wishes all Rroma a great International Romani Day]

[ Text; This system is Romani ]

[Text; This system is proud to be Romani ]

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

[mioritic]

"Tanzende Zigeunerin."

Kurt Hielscher, Picturesque Spain (New York: Brentano's, 1925)

[spale-vosver]

I've been doing a lot of thinking about Romani and Jewish solidarity lately, given our similarities.

We're both a diasporic people hated pretty much everywhere we go and blamed for all of the world's problems, especially in Southern and Eastern Europe.

We both have a closed culture that is very difficult to become a part of (from my understanding the only way to become Romani is to be "adopted" by a group of Romani or be born and raised in the culture)

We both have an extensive list of rules for living that are only fully known to the members of our communities and dictate things like diet, hygiene, prayer, etc

We're the two largest victims of the Shoah

We both often speak cultural languages associated with different demographics of the diaspora (Vlax Romani vs Balkan Romani vs Sinte Romani compared to Yiddish vs Ladino vs Arabiya Yahudiya)

We both often adopted the religions of the region in order to survive (forced Jewish and Romani conversion to Islam and Christianity)

I'm sure there's more I've forgotten, but feel free to chime in with your thoughts, and if I've misspoken please feel free to correct me -- since Romani is a wholly closed culture, I only know as much as Romani creators and educators are willing to share.

[aroundtheworldinstamps]

Ethnicities of Moldova series, featuring Ukrainian, Gagauz, and Romani people in traditional clothes

[gougarfem]

fake roma are so fucking funny like... you don't want to be in the romani community. i've been friends with fauxmani and they talk so much shit about "gatekeepers" and real roma. you literally want an ethnicity that is easy to fake and you want a space full of other fauxmani who will endlessly validate you. you don't actually want to be romani, you don't want to learn our language or customs beyond the ones that make you feel special (like wearing the dikhlo, tied wrongly, as an unmarried woman). you want there to be "romani names" you can call yourself and "romani recipes" you can make and you get soooo disappointed when you're told our cuisine is mostly family variations on balkan and turkish dishes. you don't get to cherrypick our culture, you're not reconnecting, you're a white gadjo who wants to claim an ethnicity other white americans know nothing about. real roma will always be able to tell you're a liar and that's why you avoid us like the plague. sorry to burst your bubble but you'll never fit in <3

[izabesworld]

Appleby Horse Fair!

To this who have followed my blog for a while, it has been a while! So hello, and thank you for sticking around 😃.

For those who are new, my name is Izzy and I’m a Rroma woman wanted to educate people on all things Rroma. I focus mainly on educating those on Peaky Blinders misconceptions and fanfic writing tips, but also share things about my culture, about Rromani culture and share traditions.

This time of year is a big part of the year for many Rroma men and women in England as it’s officially the time of the Appleby Horse Fair!

The Appleby Horse Fair, also known as Appleby New Fair, is an annual gathering of Gypsies and Travellers in the town of Appleby-in-Westmorland in Cumbria, England.

The horse fair is held each year in early June, attracting roughly 10,000 Gypsies and Travellers, about 1,000 caravans, several hundred horse-drawn vehicles, and about 30,000 visitors. The Gypsy and Traveller attendees include British Romanichal, Irish Travellers, Scottish Gypsy and Traveller groups, Kale (Welsh Romanies) and more!

My family is under the Romanichal section of this list, or if you’re English you’d know us better as Romany due to where we come from.

Appleby was given to us by King James (the second) of England in 1685 - supposedly - and by the 1900’s became a huge thing for English Travellers are it’s a time of year for us to come together, share our culture and even trade with a spit to the hand.

The Appleby Horse Fair, despite being a huge thing in Romani culture, isn’t shown in Peaky Blinders, and would be an amazing thing to show in fan fiction.

At Appleby, we have markets and history, where we see each other vardo’s and horses, tell people family stories and even make family tree connections! We like to call it a big family get together.

There are so many things I could delve into when it regard the Applyby Horse Fair, so let me know if you’re interested in knowing more about it ! 💗 (Even as an anonymous ask).

Much love to you all 👋

[lilitunoirrr]

So since it's Romani history month, I want to share a poem by Henry Lawson. A man that was/is huge in Australian literacy history but never noted for his Romani heritage despite writing about it. Here's one of my favourite poems of his:

[dreaming-in-sunlight]

I finished it ❤️

[vitsa-didicoy]

Rromani Store Showcase

LucyDoeDesigns on Etsy [link]

Gorgeous beaded jewelry and handmade dolls. Support Rromani businesses 💙💖💚

[sysboxes]

[Text: This system wishes all rroma a great international romani day!]

[ Text: This system is Romani]

[ Text: This system is proud to be romani]

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

[hungee-boy]

with it being national rromani day tomorrow im extending my best wishes to fellow didicoy and rroma that were raised by gadje/in gadje society

its heartbreaking to hear that we probably wont be accepted by other rroma, despite the fact that we didnt choose to be taken from our culture or for our family to bury our blood out of fear

but were here still and were part of the 10 million and everyday we continue to live on, our rroma ancestors are honored and proud of us

opre rroma, including didicoy

[mioritic]

Maria Sturm (German-Romanian, 1985–)

Photograph from "Be Good", a series on underage married Roma teens in Romania.

Republished in Martor. The Museum of the Romanian Peasant Anthropology Journal 25 ("Marriage-making among Roma in Central and Eastern Europe"), 2020

[psychologeek]

Me: I'm tired. I should focus on actually writing the fic.

Also me: *writes a multilingual fanfic*

Anyway now we can add Hungarian to the languages used in "Sweet Dreams" series.

Because.

(I actually considered using Rromani Chib, or Lovari dialect, but 1. I'm not sure if it's the accurate language for the origins, and 2. as an outsider and those languages being used already by a closed group, I highly feel like this isn't my place. Luckily for me, my HC is that Dick's grandparents (Mary's parents) immigrated from Hungary in the 1960s. HC for the win.

TLDR: Dick is either Lovari or Keldrash, and his grandparents immigrated from Hungary. They spoke Hungarian and Vlax Romani, which his mother also spoke a little, but Dick only knows a few words. )

Thanks for coming to my TEDTalk!

(I want to write something about the discrimination Hungarian Rromani ppl experience. (And Roma in general). But like. I'm outsider. But also I don't know how to talk about it. But also if anyone reading it - I'm so, so sorry.)

[izabesworld]

Something in the Peaky Blinders community that has caught mine and a few others’ eyes, in the frequent and so relaxed use of the word “Gypsy” when not in book context.

As someone part of the Rroma community, having once lived in Romania, moving from country to country until we settled in England in 2008, I think it’s important to make it known to people who may not be aware before it becomes a widespread issue.

The word Gypsy has been used since the beginning of our communities in the North of India, where majority of us originated. The word has been used to enslave the Rroma community until the late 1800’s, it was used during the Holocaust to justify the slaughter and eradication the Rroma community endured and wipe out our community.

Between 200,000-500,000 (the records unknown due to the disregard of Rroma life) Roma and Sinti people were murdered by Nazi’s in the 2nd World War. Roma and Sinti people were sent to ghettos, Auchwitz, Dachau and Brikenau, which has a specific “Gypsy Camp”, made specifically for the Roma and Sinti communities.

Romani is not Romany, Romany is not Sinti. Rroma is an Indo-Aryan ethnic group that has a closed language. We wish that for the purpose of fanfiction, you do not attempt to learn that language as it is closed. The language has saved the lives of millions of Rroma through the years - being a symbol of our strength and integrity. If something were to happen to our community again, we would rely on our language to keep us safe once again.

Having Romani, Romany, Sinti or any other Rroma connection does NOT make you ethnically Rroma. Having Great-great grandparent connections to Rroma does not make you Rroma, for you will not be persecuted for living in a Vardo, nor will you be persecuted for the label on your birth certificate.

We want you to celebrate our culture, when you are invited. We want you to celebrate our dished and clothing, when you are invited. If you have a Rroma friend, you will more than likely understand a few basic words of our language.

In fan-fiction, it is expected to see the word Gypsy be used sparsely, giving context to the time period and the lack of regard for our community, despite the hardships. However, we ask you do not use it in reference to us or our people, fiction or not. We ask that when you talk about the Shelby’s as people, you refer to them as Romani, not as Gypsy.

We ask that you do not call yourself Gypsy in your usernames, for that is disregard to our culture and our people. We ask that you do not refer to yourself as a Gypsy in context of you like a person of Rroma descent.

We ask so little, but these changes can change the future of so many Rroma people. It can change the future of my grand-children’s lives, my children’s lives. If we understand now why Rroma are important, why we aren’t thieves, job stealers and lazy, we’ll make a change to the future and what may happen next.

Rroma has had so little rest, and we are still in a constant battle with the engrained systems that disallow us to do certain activities and events due to our heritage.

As authors on this app, we ask YOU to be the first to make that change.

Of course, any reblogs etc are appreciated, or if you choose to illiterate this piece into something else to spread to your friends on this app, we will also be entirely grateful. If the message is spread, maybe the next generation of will not have to be told the message at all.

All my blessings to anyone who has read this. Nais nais tuke <3