The Untamed Episode 38 ──── Yi City

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The Untamed Episode 38 ──── Yi City
The first review of Roma cultural achievements, Petar Otoranov at Niš, Serbia.
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the first societies dealing with Roma education, culture and social issues were established in Yugoslavia. One of the main initiators of the idea of interconnecting the Roma within Yugoslavia was the pioneer and writer, Slobodan Berberski. He was also the president of the First World Congress of Roma held in London in 1971, when decisions were made in the spirit of the national awakening of Roma: a common name was established for all Roma in the world, the appearance of the flag and the Roma anthem The activities of the Yugoslav delegates at the following congresses proved to be decisive for the networking of Roma communities worldwidemIn the context of the mentioned initiatives, a cultural event of great importance for the Roma in Yugoslavia, but also in the world, is emerging. "The first review of Roma cultural achievements" was held in Nis in 1974 with the efforts of a prominent Roma activist, the then president of the "Roma Association" from Niš, Saito Balić. The first festival included a literary evening, an exhibition of paintings, an exhibition of old Roma crafts, a panel discussion on Roma culture and a folklore festival. The event was attended by 19 societies with 540 performers, and it was opened with a parade of all folklore groups through the city center, while the main part of the cultural and artistic program was held on the Summer Stage in the Niš Fortress. Petar Otoranov, a photo-reporter for the newspaper "Politika", who has immortalized the landscapes, cities, society and cultural events of Yugoslavia in his long-term work, had the opportunity to notice the festival, whose tradition is still nurtured in the culture of the Roma people.
In a recent episode of WandaVision, “All-New Halloween Spooktacular!” the titular superhero Wanda Maximoff a.k.a. the Scarlet Witch (played by Elizabeth Olsen) appears in her retro costume — red headband, leotard, tights, and cape — announcing that…
Reminder: You don’t have to take my word for it.
“Although WandaVision’s Wanda is from the fictional Eastern European country Sokovia, the original comic book versions of Wanda and her brother Pietro face violent persecution for their Romani ethnicity as a major plot point. Particularly in Europe, Roma still face police brutality, systemic racism, disproportionate levels of poverty, and lack of access to clean water housing because of antigypsyism.”
“The few Roma who work as fortune tellers and witches, like myself, do not do so because we are magical, but because it’s a job that we were historically forced into. Roma are a diasporic ethnic group originating in 10th-century India, and when they arrived in Europe in the 1300s and 1400s, dark-skinned with many gods, they were relentlessly persecuted. Enslaved, legally hunted, murdered, and shunted off into the margins of society, Roma were allowed to work as performers, metal workers, horse traders, craftspeople, agricultural workers, and fortune tellers, but little else. Palmistry, card reading, tea leaf and coffee reading, and other forms of divination were brought by Roma from India and the Middle East, and Roma were consulted by Europeans for their magical, un-Christian needs because they were seen, along with other nonbelievers, as dangerous, demonic, and mystical. Roma women were cast as witches, and discriminated against, but made the most of this means of income to survive.”
“In the US, Roma are targeted by ‘Gypsy police task forces’ and face persistent discrimination, as shown in this Harvard Study. But we are not represented in the US Census or in politics, and barely feature in the media. In fact, many Roma in the industry hide their ethnicity if they’re able to and pretend to be something else to avoid repercussions.”
So the notion that the Romani have found a home in Sokovia and thus became a more-so-than-they-are-now mixed-race ethnicity is implausible and inherently racist? Explain in detail, please.
@rnorningstars …that’s not racism, that’s bigotry. Racism would be expressely stating that you changed her ethnicity because Romani people can’t act.
@rnorningstars …also, your name is fucking confusing.
Quick question for aggrieved Romani’s on here: Do y'all also get up in arms about Noomi Rapace, a white Swede, playing a Romani fortune teller in the second Guy Ritchie Sherlock film, or do you accept her performance because her family claims Romani descent (and thus you acknowledge that there are fucking white Romani folk)?
First, there’s no need to get racially charged with that “aggrieved Romani” bit. You likely didn’t intend for that, but that’s how it comes off. Also, Romani is already plural.
Second, Noomi Rapace has only said she believes her father is of Spanish Kalé descent, which could just as mean he himself isn’t a Rom. The only people who call her Roma are people who don’t bother to read beyond ethnicity websites. Personally, she shouldn’t be cast in Romani roles given that she herself isn’t considered one, anyway.
Third, Romani is a racial identity that gets conflated with ethnicity. Our vitsi are our ethnicities. This is something someone else tried to explain to you, but clearly you don’t actually care what Romani have to say about our own race, you only seem to argue with semantics. “White Romani” aren’t a thing. Argue with the wall on that, only 1/64th “my great great grandma might have been a Gypsy” types make that claim, and those are gadje, too.
TIG NOTARO as Marianne Peters ARMY OF THE DEAD (2021), dir. Zack Snyder
We have watched and guided. We have helped them progress, and seen them accomplish wonders. Throughout the years, we have never interfered. Until now.
ETERNALS 2021 | dir. Chloé Zhao
I think one of the bigger problems I have with MCU fandom is the unwillingness to truly expand beyond what they know in order to educate themselves on certain topics. Many times, it’s been said that Romani have preferred that Marvel Studios NOT cast Gadje to play Romani-based characters (and also, I’m surprised no one has ever brought this up, but Aaron Taylor-Johnson has already said the MCU versions of the Maximoffs are supposed to be Romani. That’s another topic for another time) and that there is a deep history of antiziganism in both the movies and the comics. Erasing the race/ethnicity of the characters isn’t going to fix that - it simply treats the race/ethnicity itself like it’s a problem.
But it goes in one ear, and out the other. Romani, like many people, are complex. You will find many people with many opinions on many things. This particular situation is one of those things. And yes, I know, we all know, that there are Romani who like the films. There are also many Romani who don’t like the whitewashing of Romani characters in the films. Both of these concepts can exist... so why do MCU stans act like they only listen to one side?
Us Gypsies are a complex people, and our opinions are going to reflect that. I’m just saying, you can’t rely on your one Gypsy friend who is okay with one thing when other Gypsies will also say they don’t approve.
And maybe I’ll get back to using my old tagging system. It was something like olivia.txt, I think?
By the way...
I’ll probably talk a lot about my experiences as Gypsy here. I’ll rant, mostly. I think there are a lot of things I want to address and unpack about my culture and how I work around things here. And because of that, I’ll often slip back into calling myself a Gypsy.
I know we all know about the Controversy around using the word. Many of us see it as a slur, and I am one of them. But also, I believe in reclaiming these things from gadje. So I will use Gypsy and Roma interchangeably. I think, out of the millions and milliions of things my people are subject to, that I’m allowed to make this claim.
I’m back!
I never really used Tumblr, anyway. I only had 20 followers last time, before I deleted and moved onto Twitter. But Twitter has become so bad for my mental health, even though there are a lot of lovely people on there. Facebook (or Rombook, specifically) has been taken over by pick-me types, and I only use TikTok to watch cats.
I won’t be leaving Twitter, mostly because I have a larger following there, and it’s easier to boost small Romani businesses and talk to other Rom there. On here, I think Rrumblr died. I don’t see anyone active on the tags anymore. But, it’ll be easier, I think, to use this place to rant more, as on Twitter, people just become more vicious, and I know I’m relatively unpopular with a certain fandom on there.
But I don’t know how often I’ll be using Tumblr. But I won’t leave it!
Me and the girls on our way back to Tumblr...