A Ti A Ti • Siempre Acaba Tu Vida • Estrellas • Mi Corazon • Mujer • Tierra Gitana • Pajarito • Los Peces En El Rio • Igual Se Entonces • Cataluña • A Tu Vera • Campesino • La Rumba De Nicolas
*Please note that this band is of Romani origin and the term used in their name is being reclaimed.
Because gothel being a anti-Romani stereotype is so much better than her being a antisemitic stereotype🤡🤡🤡. I swear to god the fans of this movie deserved to be bullied in school for being this stupid. They’re as stupid as Wendy stans from the mcu.
sometimes i stay on tumblr too long and forget that IRL people are still Very racist and I can’t just say things like “g*psy is a slur against the heavily discriminated against Romani people.” Without getting treated like I’m insane.
Sometimes I think that maybe the reason that my mother never raised me and my brother as part of our culture is so that she could save us the pain and harassment and racism that she went through.
Cause yeah, we both have lighter skin than her from our dad, but my little brother still has those Roma eyes and if his hair were darker, and the fact that his skin is only a few shades lighter than hers in the summer, if we did interact with our family, if we did openly show the world who we are, then yeah, those assholes would be racist to him
And I am so fucking privileged to have golden skin and blue eyes and golden hair that hasn’t done what it’s been threatening since I was seven and turned brown, and that let’s me pass through crowds unnoticed, but I would my culture, would my people recognise me for who I am? Would I be accepted?
My mother, my brave and strong mother, when she was growing up was endlessly called slurs, many of which I am lucky enough to not know, and told that her ‘skin was dirty’ just because it was brown (and let me tell ya, it’s not brown from her German-Italian father, it’s brown from generations of Roma), and even now I sometimes notice things. People not always recognising me as her daughter, save from our eye shapes and my nose. The boys in the line at the theme park last year, harmlessly asking my mum how long she had lived in England for (she didn’t kind them asking btw), because they had mistaken her brown skin as meaning she was from somewhere else, India perhaps. The local people in Greece when she went there before I was born, going up to her and asking her questions in Greek, because they assumed her one of them.
I can understand why she did it
And after she went through all of that, after she kept us away and spoke little of what she went through, I’ve still had to deal with teenage boys being Neo-Nazi shits, and girls defending their right to say that their friends outfit was ‘giving g*psy’ (a. Culture appropriation, B. a slur) while they use white sources as ‘proof’, and strangers on the internet, who don’t know me and hadn’t even seen my face, saying that I am not Roma, they can use that word because it makes us ‘feel magic and special’ and general infantilisation, only to delete the messages a few minutes after I’ve blocked them, so I can’t send out a beware on this ‘inclusive, anti-racist lgbtq meme account’ because that was what the account was.
And I can’t tell my mum any of this. It would upset her too much
anyway with phantom liberty probably being shown off at sgf's xbox showcase later today im just curious when we'll find out if this shit made the final cut