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Tag: structural racism
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The Last Acceptable Racism?
What Kemi Badenoch’s comments reveal about Britain’s treatment of Gypsy and Traveller communities Today, I listened to comments from Kemi Badenoch regarding Gypsy and Traveller communities and policing. I should have been shocked. Instead, I found myself feeling something closer to disappointment. Not because the comments were new. Sadly, they were not. They simply repeated…
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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…