Esmeralda

big-gadje-world:

(cw: rape, lynching, slavery)

I remember watching The Hunchback of Notre-Dameas a child, and for the first time, seeing another Gypsyon my television screen. She looked like my cousins; like my family. She was kind, but strong willed. More importantly, she was the only representation of a Romani woman that I saw as a young child.

All right, gypsy, where’d you get that money?
For your information, I earned it.
Gypsies don’t earn money.
They steal it.

No one ever told me that th...