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🇨🇦 Roma, Poet, Author, Podcaster, Playwright, Filmmaker, Storyteller, Documentarian, Harpist, Welsh Gypsy, Nan. Author of Parramisha: A Romani Poetry Collection. Poetry Wales & Firebird Awards. Producer, Watershed Writers Podcast. Learner Welsh Kale Romani
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Readying for round two of submissions to publishers for my memoir, Akekoi: A Romani Memoir. Adding a chapter summary info sheet bec our Roma history & culture is layered thru the intersections of identity, racism, ethnic genocide, social exclusion & appropriation. Need to tell before showing. ✍🏻📖

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In the Handmaid’s Tale, a data breach deleting the bank accounts of all women is how the subjegation of women began. With all the drama around data pillaging, it’s a precedent that we don’t want to see repeated.

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Welcome. From our house to yours. Happy Canada 🇨🇦 flag day. #flagday.

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Chihuly creation in glass. Beauty and art. Time line cleanse.

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Snow day read is Helen Humphries novel ‘Followed by the Lark.’ Meditations on Thoreau and Walden Pond, which I haven’t read since the 1960s. Didn’t we all back in the day?

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Now I’m worried about my personal data that’s possibly high jacked in Musk’s data snatch. As a former Canadian 🇨🇦 snowbird in Florida, I’m certainly in the system used by Homeland Security for cross border travel, our property tax payments as well as annual filings with the IRS of our 182 day stays.

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Here’s an AI image of a Gypsy woman & Victorian George Borrow’s sexual fantasy. Gypsy women are exciting passion of the ardent description, particularly in the bosoms of those not of their race, which passion becomes the more violent when the almost utter impossibility of gratifying it is known.

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We’re chillin’ and resting, Vesta and I. Rest is Resistance writes Tricia Hersey in her book of that title. She’s saying ‘free yourself from grind culture and always make space for your gifts and talents without working yourself into exhaustion.’ A must read book.

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Veshengay Kaulay Romani chib Wood Family #Romani language Welsh towns. Gav - Town Vlija - Village Khenako Gav – Holywell Kovena – Corwen Karnavena – Caernavon Jukleski Vlija – Beddgelert Bermoa – Barmouth Barengri Vlija – Bethesda Rusta – Llanwrst #TeuluAbramWood #welshkaleheritage

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Comparing Welsh Kale chib with a man from Afghanistan, he said “I know these words.” Yek, dooi, trin - 1,2,3 - Shukar too. Quite the diasporic story of #Roma drom through Asia Minor to #Wales with loan words. Yes, I have DNA from Iraq & Afghanistan as well as India too, I said

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About steel tariffs in 🇨🇦. US military prioritizes using Canadian steel to reinforce and protect from IED explosions to the under carriages of military humvees (sp?) 🇨🇦 Canadian steel performs better than US steel and saves lives.

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Tell us you’re not mainstream without telling us. I’ll go first. I never drank a glass or bottle of Coca Cola.

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Our Romani ancestral folk reperiben – memory in the mode of the Olde Romani storytellers who rokka paramishus – tell our story. This is our instinctual, blood memory or native intelligence. Remembering & identity is imperative in the subsequent rewriting of history that has judged us invisible.

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I’m UK born with British citizenship. I’m now a Canadian. We have a meritocracy & I’m not a monarchist. But I’m about to change, learning the King is our 🇨🇦 Head of State, concretizing a POV that 🇨🇦 as Trump’s 51st State is stupidity. Unbelievably, he wants to remove a monarchy. Good luck with that.

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Searching for public health information, Americans? Dr.Isaac Bogoch is an infectious diseases specialist, suggesting checking out Canada’s online public health resources and updates. You’re welcome.

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Just paid down my American dollar credit card balance before the Canadian dollar tanked. Meanwhile my American bank that Canada’s TD Bank purchased during the U.S 2008 recession when so many smaller U.S. banks went south is still holding its own. Just sayin’ about facts many Americans don’t know.

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Eldra Jarman is my Welsh Gypsy cousin and co author with her husband of the book,The Welsh Gypsies: Children of Abram Wood. She was also a harpist of our Gypsy music who contributed to the cultural capital of Wales by keeping alive our traditional music of the triple harp. #TeuluAbramWood.

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Meanwhile in Canada 🇨🇦 At my local farm store chickens are now laying. They’re free range, organic eggs priced at $2.50Cdn that’s $1.72US a dozen. Sorry MAGAs not sorry.

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WIP, recording of a language course complete with grammar & vocabulary of Welsh Kale #Romanes. My gt grandfather John Roberts was the first to write it down. Our ancestor Abram Wood brought it to Wales. My heritage fund has invested $7000. Asking for moral support not money. Course will be free.

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@pennyblake.bsky.social and I are working on a Roma writers pack for Bluesky. Let us know if you’d like to be added. Ethnic Roma only, cos nothing about us without us.

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#HolocaustRemembranceDay - held on the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau. My poem: Forged in Fire for 500,000 Sinti Roma murdered in Auschwitz. Art: @ildikonova-art.bsky.social

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In a traditional #Roma vardo doing research for my memoir, Akekoi: A Romani Memoir. Now with a publisher.

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