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Tag: Cultural Rights
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“You’re Lucky – You Can Hide It”
When invisibility becomes the price of acceptance I have been told something several times in my life that has started to bother me more, rather than less, as I have got older. Sometimes it has come from professionals. Sometimes from perfectly well-meaning people. It has even come from other people who understand racism and discrimination…
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I’ve Found a Piece of Land — Can I Live on It? A Gypsy Woman’s Plain-English Guide to Planning Permission
There has been a lot of noise about the new planning rules. Depending on which newspaper or Facebook comment you read, apparently Gypsies and Travellers can now buy a field, pull on with a caravan and planning permission is almost guaranteed. I wish. Equally, I still hear Gypsy and Traveller families say: “It’s Green Belt.…
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Running Away, Walking Off and the Marriage the State Could See
Who decided what was the “real” Gypsy way to get married? Many debates happen online about Gypsy and Traveller culture. And when they do, differences of opinion can become very strong, very quickly. I found the whole “if you use a mop to clean your floors, you’re not a real Gypsy or Traveller” debate fascinating.…
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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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Not Just a Toolkit: Taking Gypsy & Traveller Experiences Into Different Rooms
A small crisis-planning commission gave us a chance to take Gypsy & Traveller experiences into different conversations about power, planning, identity and systems — and potentially build new allies.
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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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Please let’s stand together
Heads up people, The Government is looking to change the law! They are looking to be able to move encampments immediately. This includes roadside and private sites without planning permission!! Don’t get all annoyed and write on here how unfair everything is and what t wouldn’t happen if you were black or Asian!!! Black and Asian ppl…