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Category: Rights, Racism and Justice
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This Was Never Just a Scottish Problem, was it?
I’ve been sitting with this for a while now. Like a lot of us, I was brought up hearing bits of things — never the full story. Things half said. Things you don’t ask too many questions about. Things that sit in families but don’t get written down. I’m Romani Gypsy, with Scottish Gypsy ancestry…
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If You Won’t Let Us Stop, Won’t Let Us Travel, and Won’t Let Us Build—What Exactly Is the Plan?
I have spent years working in planning, sitting in fields, on yards, at kitchen tables, and sometimes in silence while people try to explain their lives through tears. And here is the truth, stripped of policy language and legal jargon: Gypsy and Traveller families are running out of places to exist. Not places to thrive.Not…
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When “Choice” Isn’t Really a Choice
“Choose by 2:45pm”: Gypsy and Traveller Parents Given Hours to Decide Over School Lessons” This morning a number of ethnic Gypsy and Traveller parents contacted us after being called into a meeting at their children’s school. What they describe should concern anyone who believes in respectful engagement between schools and families. Parents were reportedly brought…
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20 February 1856: Abolition Without Accountability
20 February 1856.In the Romanian Principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia, nearly 500 years of enslavement formally ended. Between 1385 and 1856, Romani people were legally treated as property. They were owned by monasteries, noble families and the state. They were sold. They were inherited. They were separated from their children. Their labour sustained estates, institutions…
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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…