Every Holocaust Memorial Day, I Always Ask People To Keep Romani People In Their Thoughts, But This Year

every holocaust memorial day, i always ask people to keep romani people in their thoughts, but this year i’d like to clear up some misconceptions that i see every year w/ a psa

romani people are not white. we’re south asian (from northern india), and each subgroup has a unique racial makeup of asian/white/etc, in different amounts. this is also why we vary wildly in physical appearance/skintone

we still face oppression. what we face, especially in europe, can still be constituted as attempted genocide, as we’re forced to live in hazardous conditions or to give away our children, be sterilized, etc just for the crime of being roma

the ‘g slur’ isn’t just an american issue. the reason some european roma prefer the slur is because, in many countries, there is no term for roma that isn’t a slur, and it’s either the g slur or the literal translation of the n word. i’m romanian, and if you used the slur in my hometown, you’d get slapped, since we just use ‘roma’.

we live in every continent across the world. some of the largest romani populations exist in south america, predominantly in brazil. they are no more and no less roma than their european counterparts, and they, like romani in asia, africa, etc all face unique challenges and oppression.

we’re the largest ethnic minority in europe, and yet have almost no political power, no land ownership power (in some places, we’re forbidden from owning land entirely), etc. with very few reputable charities- a lot of us reject charity by principle, as well as there being a general lack of education about us- the best thing you can do to help romani people is to just spread information, and help individuals when you can.

found out in the lemire run matt is canonically jake lockley's lawyer and subsequently lost my mind

microdosing on catholicism by quoting the jennifer’s body “saint jude patron saint of lost causes give me the power to crush this bitch” line whenever im faced with a task i don’t wanna do 

Weren't you the guy who wrote Chernobyl fanfiction?

there's chernobyl fanfiction? like the nuclear power plant disaster chernobyl?

i’m howl when he said “theres no point in living unless i’m beautiful” then called upon the dark spirits bc he didn’t like his hair color

patron saints are so funny, like some horrendous shit happens to them and the catholic church says "ok they're the patron saint of soap now"