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Stories, Evidence & Change
Writing, commentary, community stories, history, research, policy, creative work and reflections from Proud Gypsy Traveller.
Some pieces begin with one person’s experience. Others look at the history, evidence or systems sitting behind it. Together, they form part of a much bigger record of what our communities have lived, challenged, created and changed.
Latest
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Found Again: A Film From Our First Proud Gypsy Traveller Exhibition
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When You Grow Gills: The Fight We Inherit
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Because Roseanna Found the File: Why What Was Taken? Matters Now
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Rainey the Romany, Ringlets of Red and the Cost of Hiding
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The Day My Six-Year-Old Didn’t Want Them to Know She Was Romany
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Ringlets of Red — Six Years On
All writing
Browse the full published archive. Every piece remains available, from the newest writing back to the beginning of Proud Gypsy Traveller’s online archive in 2016.
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Smoke Beyond The Moors-Heathcliffe
Introduction This is not a rewriting of Wuthering Heights. It is an imagining of the silence around it. In Emily Brontë’s novel, Heathcliff arrives without history, a child from Liverpool, marked as “Gypsy,” and treated as other from the moment he steps through the door of Wuthering Heights. The text gives us fragments of who…
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Heathcliff Was a Gypsy — and Erasing That Isn’t Radical, It’s Repetition
There is something deeply familiar about the current online narrative surrounding the new Wuthering Heights adaptation. Familiar, because Romani people have seen this move before The argument goes something like this: “Gypsy was a generic term.” Or “He was probably meant to be Black, or generally ‘other’.” Or worse: “The Brontës wouldn’t have really known…
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Rebranded Existence: When the State Criminalises Our Lives but Celebrates Our Idea
Tonight I spent my time writing welfare reports. Not abstract exercises, not box-ticking paperwork, but detailed accounts of how our communities actually live. I wrote about how Gypsy and Traveller communities operate intrinsically: how we form micro-communities grounded in kinship, shared responsibility, reciprocity, and deep connection to place and land. I described how care is…
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When Rules Are Only Meant To Tame Us: Power In The Pen
We’re used to hearing it. “You break the rules.”“You don’t follow the system.”“Why can’t you just do things properly?” Those comments get thrown at Gypsy & Traveller families all the time, as if exclusion is a personal failing rather than a political design. As if the rules themselves are neutral, fair, and applied equally. They…
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Scraps From the Table: Colonial Britain’s Ongoing Harm to Gypsy and Traveller Communities
Content Warning: This blog contains references to racism, forced displacement, slavery, institutional abuse, forced exclusion, state violence, cultural erasure and intergenerational trauma experienced by Gypsy and Traveller people under colonial and state systems. We live within a colonial system that has, for more than 600 years, labelled Gypsy and Traveller people as criminals, trespassers, and…
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“Yes, We Are Charitable — And We Shouldn’t Have to Explain That.”
Before We Begin You can now find our new explainer graphic —“CIC vs Charity: What’s the Difference?” — right below this post.We made it after this week’s unexpected learning curve. 📨 A Funding Lesson We Didn’t Expect This week, we reached out to a heritage grant fund to ask a simple question: “What’s the best…
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We Will Be Here: Proud Gypsy Travellers First Steps into Spoken Word and Craft
“We Will Be Here”: Proud Gypsy Traveller’s First Steps into Spoken Word and Craft at Wild Rumpus This weekend, Proud Gypsy Traveller CIC will take its very first steps into the public arts space—bringing story, skill, and spirit to Wild Rumpus: Leaving No Trace at Homestead Park.As a newly formed community-led organisation, we are proud…
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Proud Partnerships: Celebrating Our Work With Beamish Museum
We at Proud Gypsy Traveller CIC are incredibly proud of our collaboration with Beamish, the Living Museum of the North—especially as they were recently awarded Art Fund Museum of the Year 2025, the world’s most prestigious museum prize. This £120,000 accolade underscores their outstanding commitment to inclusive storytelling and genuine community partnership. Sharing Stories, Connecting People As part of…
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Burn Them Out: When Public Safety is a Smokescreen for Hate
A man stands on a Traveller site. He’s a council tenant. He pays rent. He calmly explains to a news crew that the site is overcrowded, the caravans are too close, and if one goes up in flames, they all will. He asks to work with the council to fix it. What does he get…