I guess it’s an individual thing, similar to Jewish or Armenian people.
I’d really appreciate it if non-Romani people stopped debating our race.
Like, yea, on an *individual* basis, some Romani people consider themselves White, but most Romani people do not. Most Romani people do not look White, and are most certainly not treated as White in Europe, or the Americas.
I don’t know where people are getting this idea that the majority of Romani people are White-passing or light-skinned because that has absolutely no basis in fact.
I get that race is a construct, but that is no excuse for trying to define our race for us. Trying to claim that Romani people in any way benefit from Whiteness erases our entire history of slavery, genocide, and oppression based on the fact that we are not White. It also completely erases our own ancestry, which has roots in South Asia for f*ck’s sake.
Also, White people do not currently nor have they ever considered us White, which is how Whiteness is defined.
There is this gross and almost evil trend of non-members of a group arguing over the race of a minority group.
It happened to the Sami, to Jewish people (esp. Us evil racist ~White~ jews) and Romani. Imagine that, nobody on this website knew of Sami or Romani and these people think that have the right to argue what race they are.
This, is something that we, gaje, need to stop doing. We need to start recognizing Romani and stop with awful stereotyping and excluding from anti-racial protests and social justice.
Also, for clarification note, Armenians are not White and no White person considers them White unless the Armenian person is like a generation American. Don’t lump Armenians in with their oppressors.
Considering OP is an extremely disgusting racist …
OP is definitely racist and reblogs from right-libertarians and fascists all the time because OP is a piece of shit
TMK OP is also Jewish – a disgusting shame of a person and a shame upon Israel.
Here is the thing any Romani, Sami, Jewish, or Armenian individual(s) can buy into the idea that they are white, but the reality that as a whole none of those groups are White.
The thing is that it’s not just unabashed racists doing this. There are a lot of people in Tumblr SJ circles who have repeated this very same line, especially about Romani and Jewish people.
“Roma are White passing in the US” and “White Jews” are commonly used as a means to both silence Romani and Jewish persons, and excuse anti-Romani and anti-Semitic rhetoric by people who claim to be avidly against racism.
On an individual level, Romani people might claim that they are White and many mixed Romani/White persons are more comfortable with that label. However, as an ethnic group, Romani people are not White. In regards to Romani people, specifically, most are by no means White passing. Most Romani people are very much brown.
I am light skinned and Romani. I am one of the lightest people in my family, aside from my mother. On an individual level, yea, we benefit from that, but when we talk about the whole of our ethnicity.. we do not at all benefit from Whiteness. Romani people, as a people, have zero institutional or economic power over anyone.
We are a stateless nation that suffers from extreme oppression, segregation, and poverty regardless of where we live. “Gypsies” are loathed the world over, regardless of our skin color.
And, we’re not even getting into how conditional passing is for light skinned Romani persons, either. It’s not as if light skinned Romani people, even in the US, can just go about our lives as though we are White. It’s not as though people simply left their prejudices in Europe, or Turkey, or Armenia, or Iran, or Brazil.
I am in no way suggesting that light skinned Roma do not have privileges, but we spend our entire lives walking on glass. We are still othered and face xenophobia in a way that White people do not. For Romani people, “looking White” does not simply grant you access to Whiteness. Being *read* as Romani, as a Gypsy, most often has f*ck all to do with skin color.
When I first came across one of these poor deformed creatures my first instinct was that it was of a much more nefarious breed, however I could not have been farther from the truth. A mutated unicorn is the product of a malformation during the birth of a healthy unicorn couple. What causes these mutations has yet to be studied any closer, but its a general understanding that when a unicorn is born with 2 or more horns that something is wrong with its ability to maintain its magic. A healthy unicorn with 1 horn remains to be one of the most pure forms of magic in nature, but a mutated unicorn is unstable. 2 horns could lead to any number of 2 things. 2 heads, 2 tails, 2 or more legs, so on. No one is the same. Regardless of their appearance and the shunning of healthy unicorns, these creatures have been among the kindest and most sincere beasts I’ve studied. Even with so much struggle their basic instinct is the same, it is pure and it is kind, it is a unicorn. If you see one, do not be frightened, show it the kindness you want it to show you, and all will go well.
Fond of: sugar water, gentle petting, honey in milk
Sweat is the worst. There’s things out there to make sweat season better, though. Without further ado, my “sweat sucks” checklist, in no particular order! All product names are links- mostly Amazon- but you can get many of these items in a lot of places.
0, the ur-anti-sweat task force item. A good anti-perspirant of your choice. If you’re sweaty and you hate it, you probably already know which one you like best.
1. Gold Bond powder spray. The powder itself is ok, but the spray is where it’s at. If you hate underboob sweat, this is the way to go. Start dry- don’t do this right after a shower, and towel off if you’ve already been sweating. Before putting on a bra or binding, lift one boob, spray underneath, and hold that boob up for a bit to let the spray dry. There’s other things that work for this, too- Fresh Balls, Monkey Butt, etc.- and I have tried all of them and this is the one I keep reaching for. Also, Fresh Balls and Monkey Butt are terrible names.
Just don’t use it on any mucus membranes. If you’ve got a sweaty groin area, be careful with it.
2. Slipshorts. Recently I stopped hating myself and wearing pants in the summer. It’s just too humid out. But a combo of chub rub and sweat means that I feel super uncomfortable if I’m not wearing something– which is where a nice pair of undershorts/bike shorts come in handy. Get cotton ones or wicking ones, and they help combat the sweat and the chafing. Jockey’s Skimmies are really good for this- the ones that wick away moisture. This is not shapewear, mind you- that would only make the sweat problem worse!
3. A fan. I’ve got a really goofy electric one that mists me with water, but it looks really, really goofy. It might look silly, but it let me survive my family’s ill-planned hike up Diamond Head in the middle of the day. That was worth looking silly. When I’m super hot and gross, I don’t care- but it’s not convenient everywhere, or you might have more dignity than me. (Most people probably do, really.) In that case, a folding fan is extremely useful. Pick one that you like- if you carry purses, maybe even get a few cheap ones and toss one in each purse.
4. Another kind of goofy thing that really does work is the Cooldanna, which is a bandanna that’s been sewn into a head band and stuffed with water crystals. You soak it in water, tie it around your head, and it keeps you cool for a very long time. If you were clever, you could make your own with some water polymer crystals and whatever fabric you liked- and this way you’d have more control over design and size and everything. You could even get creative about shape and placement!
5. Around April, I stop wearing closed shoes unless I absolutely have to- sandals all the way for me. I’m a Birkenstocks person, but honestly, any supportive sandal’s good. I’ve had the same pair of Milanos for well over a decade now, and they don’t stink and my feet feel pretty damn good in them.
6. A Ta-Ta Towel. It’s not fun to wear a bra all the time, but it’s equally unfun to be sitting at home and dealing with underboob sweat. You can get these other places, or make your own even, or if your boobs are shaped right, just stick a washcloth beneath them and call it a day- but nothing dries quite like a towel.
7. Bun formers. Getting the hair off the back of the neck is vital, and a bun works pretty much anywhere.
8. Cucumber wipes and a towel. Sometimes if I have to walk or take the bus somewhere in the summer, I’ll actually take face-washing stuff with me in my bag so that I can de-sweat when I get there. If not, cucumber wipes and a small towel work fine.
Sweaty friends: save a life. If you’ve got more things you like to use, please add to the list.
If you know me, you’d know that I am a highly visual person. I love learning from images and layouts, and my spatial intelligence is probably my strongest type of intelligence. Because of this, I often use mind maps to study, and so do a lot of other people. However, there are people who don’t really know how to make and utilize a mind map effectively. That’s what this post is for! Here’s how you can make your mind maps more effective and thus enable you to retain more information. (P.S. you might wanna zoom in)
By no means am I an expert in mind-mapping; these are just some habits I have when making a mind map that successfully does its job of helping me remember the topics I’m studying.
If you have any questions, feel free to drop an ask!
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