I was told my whole life that I was English. English Gypsy. It wasn’t said harshly. It wasn’t said defensively. It was simply offered as fact, the way families hand down recipes or habits or certain turns of phrase. It […]
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Smoke Beyond The Moors-Heathcliffe
09/02/2026
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
Scraps From the Table: Colonial Britain’s Ongoing Harm to Gypsy and Traveller Communities
24/11/2025
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 […]
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 […]
The Burden Behind the Smile, Who Carries Us?
11/08/2025
The Price of Being “Strong” There’s a question that has been burning inside me for a long time, and it’s one I can’t keep swallowing anymore: Where is my grace? Who gives me sympathy? As Gypsy and Traveller staff, we […]
This week at Redbourn’s Traveller site, fire tore through nearly every home. No one died—but most families lost everything. Their homes. Their belongings. Their security. And they lost it in a way that wasn’t just tragic—it was preventable. Let’s be […]
“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 […]