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We never really talked about it but The Ugly Ducking that grew up to be a beautiful swan was still probably pretty fugly from a duck’s perspective

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

Imagine being part of a minority group that not only has faced genocide on a number of occassions but also when history regales the horrors of other minority groups that were slaughtered yours is regularly forgotten or left out. And then western culture takes the racial slur that people associate with your minority group and then profits off of it and it becomes a trend to purchase things with your racial slur all over the product which has little to nothing to do with your ethnic group.

And then people apply that racial slur to themselves and use the excuse of "reclaiming it" when we all very well know that those people "reclaiming it" aren't actually part of your ethnic group. But your diversity makes a great cover for anyone that thinks that they can slip into it like a skin.

Additionally imagine if your ethnic group was so culturally appropriated that it isn't even treated like an ethnicity but a spiritual movement by western culture.

getting really into journaling is so fucked because you will fr end up with pages like "dear diary, it's fucken wimdy today!!!!! also I might be a talentless hack with no real creative drive or discipline to speak of. xoxo ✨"

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dont fucking talk to me if ur gonna act like mental illness is fucking cute or sexy or adorable or quirky or what the fuck ever when its only ADHD and autism and depression and anxiety and learning disabilities but not when its addiction or narcissism or schizophrenia or psychosis or bipolar depression or borderline personality or dissociative identity or complex post traumatic stress - WE'RE ALL FUCKING SICK BRUV ITS ALL ILLNESS. stop fucking romanticizing and infantilizing people with real fucking disorders that fuck up our lives while ur just skipping through life without any obstacles besides the one the system puts in that u dont even fucking notice bc ur privileged to live life as fucking able person.

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Tw ableism/sanism, lotsa cursin, derogatory terms

if you say you’re a leftist n then call yourself an empath or say the right lacks empathy or in any way equate empathy to morality, you’re not a fuckin leftist n I don’t fuckin trust you

empathy doesn’t fuckin equal morality. Never has never will. Bein leftist means fightin against ableism, not contributin to it you fuckin morons. People with hypoempathy deserve just as much respect n compassion as all other fuckin people. We’re not bad or evil or abusive or even right wing for not havin empathy. We’re fuckin people first n foremost.

if you claim to be leftist n then throw mentally ill people under the bus, fuck you. I hope you fall down the fuckin stairs you hypocritical shit. If you use words like narcissist or sociopath or psychopath or schizophrenic to describe someone bein a piece of shit, you’re awful. You’re legitimately a piece of shit if you do that. NPD, ASPD, n schizophrenia are actual fuckin mental illnesses that actual fuckin people actually fuckin have. They’re the people you claim to fight for when you say you fight ableism. Yet you throw em under the bus the fuckin second you see behaviour you disagree with. Legitimately fuck you

mentally ill people deserve better. Especially from people who claim to fight for their rights and autonomy

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this is why i tell my kids to pay attention in their history lectures, because shit like this goes under the radar without ever seeing light of day, and yet this experience was the talk of the town in the 50s.

“Sex Change Just ‘Legal Correction’”, March 31. 1956.