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Anyway, daily reminder from a culturally isolated Romani person.
Gypsy does not mean wanderer.
It literally means ‘people from egypt’ or similar, as europeans believed Romani people were from Egypt. It has become known similar to nomad due to how our ancestors have been forced to be nomadic due to racism and ostracization, but it is a SLUR.
Romani people are STILL being forcibly sterilized.
Romani people are STILL being forced into ghettos.
Romani people are still facing violence and danger in countless European countries- and recently, I’ve seen the beginnings of the extremes in the United States.
Have a little fucking respect and DON’T USE A SLUR THAT’S BEEN USED FOR CENTURIES AGAINST US.
And for the love of whatever’s up there, ESPECIALLY do not use it to describe your witchcraft. It is playing on the 'magic gypsy’ trope, and is EXTREMELY insulting.
non romani people, please reblog this.
🔯❄⛄🎁Happy Hanukkah 🎁❄⛄🔯
🔯Quicksilver enjoying the holidays🔯
(Hey ate all the appetizers)
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Redesign of Quicksilver from Marvel Comics
Despite being one of the two ethnic groups affected by the Nuremberg Laws there is not enough education on them or the Holocaust in general.
Omg I've never seen a poster the things The Romani yeppy
my hc for why nona and augustus refer to themselves as grulovian is because they're grulovian roma, similar to russian roma
There's surprisingly more games, starring Russian Romani, than one would expect.
psa or whatever but it’s ‘romani’ or ‘rom’, not 'roma’, if you’re trying to talk about all of us.
roma are a specific subgroup of romani (primarily from romania, the czech republic, and other countries in that general geographic region).
there’s a lot more romani groups than that though (sinti, kaale, ashkali, to name just some major ones) with their own culture, language/dialect, and history and they’re left out entirely when people insist on calling us specifically roma for whatever reason. i realize that it’s not an actively malicious mistake for most people but it’s still part of the overall erasure and whitewashing of romani history.
all roma are romani but not all romani are roma. would appreciate it if you could pass this on when you find people mislabeling us in that way in future. cheers.
I also encourage reading the Fantastic Four: Books of Doom by Ed Brubaker. It’s an extended backstory for Victor and is actually very insightful as to his Romani heritage.
What are some stories about Dr. Doom that showcase his Romani heritage ? I keep reading that him being Romani is a big part of his motivations but I haven't read a lot of Fantastic Four comics.
I don’t read very much Fantastic Four, either. I’m really not a Doctor Doom expert, but I can tell you that Victor’s cultural identity, and his upbringing in a migrant Roma community, have always a core part of his backstory. Fantastic Four Annual #2, which is first telling of Doom’s origin, details his adolescence and young adulthood in Latveria. Although the language used is, as usual, super problematic-- Fantastic Four Annual makes it very clear that Victor and his community were honest, mostly ordinary people who endured prejudice and violence in a racist system. This is a comic that came out in 1964, so this stuff has been part of the canon for almost sixty years.
Victor’s father, Werner, was a folk medicine healer who was indirectly killed by the cruel Baron who governed Latveria at the time. The Baron had demanded Werner treat his dying wife, but when Werner was unable to save her, the baron threatened to kill him. Werner and Victor were forced to flee their camp and, without shelter, Werner died of cold that winter. Victor, grief-stricken swore vengeance.
Fantastic Four Annual #2 (1964)
Victor’s mother, Cynthia, died when he was a baby. Her life and death have been alluded to many times over the years, but in Marvel Graphic Novel #49, it is stated that Cynthia struck a deal with Mephisto in an attempt to gain enough magical power to protect her community, and especially her young son. As is often the case where Mephisto is involved, Cynthia’s plans went awry and she was fatally wounded by one the Baron’s guardsmen during an attack on his castle.
Marvel Graphic Novel #49 (1989)
I wanted to share these panels because there is a clear consciousness of race and class, which comes to the surface in spite of the problematic language and flawed imagery. I was really surprised, reading these stories, at how many details resonated with my understanding of Roma history. Werner’s profession as a folk healer, and the way that his skills were both sought after and vilified by non-Roma, struck me as very true-to-life. This line, in particular, really stood out to me.
“... the old Baron of Latveria never allowed us a moment’s peace. He forced us to live on the move, and then condemned us as ‘shiftless wanderers.’ Resistance to his authority was always dangerous and often fatal.”
This a simple, and in many ways shallow, commentary on systemic antiromanyism. It is also one of the only times I’ve seen an American superhero comic interrogate an actual, real function of Roma oppression in a way that would disabuse American readers of misinformation. The popular image of “gypsies” in Western cultures is that “shiftless wanderer,” but this story casts that in a new light. That’s... kind of a big deal, and it’s surprising to me that these stories haven’t had a greater impact, considering how iconic and widely known the Doctor Doom character is .