Between Worlds

There is a lot of rich culture in that part of the country. Sadly it is often reduced to stereotypes and Mountain Dew.

The magic and cultural practices of mountain folk is deep-rooted and long-standing.

On 25 July, 1946, two young African American couples - George Dorsey, his wife, Mae Murray who was seven months pregnant, Roger Malcom, and his wife, Dorothy Malcom, were in the car of the men’s boss, Loy Harrison, who was driving them home. On the drive home they were stopped by a mob of white people, who were blocking off the Moore’s Ford bridge in Georgia. The two men were dragged from the car and beaten. One of the women recognised one of the lynchers and as a result, the women were dragged from the car and tied to the tree beside their husbands. They two couples were then tied to a nearby tree and shot. Mae Murray had her fetus cut out from her body.

This was shared on a Covid survivor group…have heard many of these before but it seems helpful: HOW TO FIGHT COVID AT HOME when you are not hospitalized.

“When the nurse came in to discharge me, I asked her, What can I do to help fight this at home? She said:

1. Sleep on your stomach at all times with Covid. If you can’t sleep on your stomach because of heath issues sleep on your side. Do not lie on your back no matter what because it smashes your lungs and that will allow fluid to set in.

2. Set your clock every two hours while sleeping on your stomach, then get out of bed and walk for 15-30 min, no matter how tired or weak that you are. Also move your arms around frequently, it helps to open your lungs. Breathe in thru your nose, and out thru your mouth. This will help build up your lungs, plus help get rid of the Pneumonia or other fluid you may have.

2. When sitting in a recliner, sit up straight - do not lie back in the recliner, again this will smash your lungs. 

3. While watching TV - get up and walk during every commercial.

4. Eat at least 1 - 2 eggs a day, plus bananas, avocado and asparagus. These are good for Potassium. 

5. Do not drink anything cold -  have it at room temperature or warm it up. Drink Pedialyte, Gatorade Zero, Powerade Zero & Water with Electrolytes to prevent you from becoming dehydrated. Water with lemon, and little honey, peppermint tea, apple cider are good suggestions for getting in fluids. No milk products, or pork. (as a singer I know milk products produce phlegm and always advised my students to have none for 3 days before a performance)

6. Vitamins D3, C, B, Zinc, Probiotic One-Day are good ideas. Tylenol for fever. Mucinex, or Mucinex DM for drainage, plus helps the cough. Pepcid helps for cramps in your legs. One baby aspirin everyday can help prevent getting a blood clot, which can occur from low activity. 

7. Drink a smoothie of blueberries, strawberries, bananas, honey, tea and a spoon or two of peanut butter. 

We always hear of how Covid takes lives, but there isn’t a lot of information out there regarding how to fight Covid when you are not critical. I hope this helps you or someone you know, just as it has helped me.”

(Wow, @thetimetostrikeislater  wish you’d had this info when you were ill)

Colonizers boil down the incredible achievements and scientific discoveries of Mesoamerica into ~human sacrifice~ and then have the gall to lecture me about the morality of human sacrifice???

Dismissing an entire civilizations achievements because their religion included sacrifice is absolutely peak colonial mindset. You are projecting your modern western colonial morality on something you cannot, possibly comprehend and think you are being helpful and respectful and you are not

I could write a book on my ancestor’s culture of sacrifice. Please understand that the way you likely learned it in school was racist and colonialist and taught from the perspective of white people. Please understand that trying to argue about it with indigenous people or using it as a gotcha to “prove that we’re bad actually” is incredibly disrespectful and ignorant.

And while we don’t practice human sacrifice or cannibalism anymore, the history of it is incredibly sacred and important to us. I will absolutely defend my ancestor’s practice of cannibalism to the death from non native people

instead of being racist about it, maybe you can try picking up a history book written by an Indigenous person for once in your life

Like, by what definition of Human Sacrifice does drowning a woman in a lake for being a witch because Jesus said to, not qualify as an act of Human Sacrifice for The White Christ? What about torturing people to death when they won’t convert, and/or torturing them until they do convert and then killing them to stop them from going back? How’s that not Human Sacrifice? What about when crusaders would roll up into a Jewish village and murder every man, woman, and child they could lay hands on, all to appease their deity? Why wouldn’t that count?

survivors know this very well, but in case anyone doesn't believe us, check out these (abbreviated) numbers by the NCMEC regarding ESP reports of CSAM-- only a fraction of the total reports, keep in mind, and by only one organization. knowing the scope of the problem can better prepare people to fight the spread of this content if they come across it. this particular brand of ignorance regarding just how proliferate CSAM is on surface sites is one of my pet peeves on this subject, so i feel justified w the long post.

and as always... if you see this content, REPORT IT.

but this is why i genuinely believe that unregulated, absolute end to end encyption shouldnt be allowed. my hot take is that if we can prevent even a single instance of a child being sexually exploited via CSAM by not allowing for bar-none end to end encryption, then we should in fact not allow bar-none end to end encryption.

of course, NCMEC says this better than i ever could:

"If tech companies shutter their visibility to this dehumanizing abuse of children by adopting end-to-end encryption without a solution in place to safeguard children, those who are sexually exploited will be invisible and left as collateral damage while offenders will continue to create, share, and collect child sexual abuse images without detection.

Sure thing! Hopefully these links here could help:

History

Romani People: Culture & History

On the road: Centuries of Roma history

Timeline of Romani History

Romani Populations in Central and Eastern Europe

Roma of Kosovo: the Forgotten Victims  

Roma in Norway

Roma in Denmark

Roma in Sweden

Roma in Finland

Roma in the United Kingdom

Roma in Brazil

Roma in Slovakia

Roma in Hungary

Lutheran Roma in Transylvania

A History of the Roma of Bulgaria

The Health of Roma in Europe 

Romani People in Nazi-Occupied Europe

The Forgotten History of Romani Resistance

Terminology

Romani Terminology

Romanichal Word List

Language Words in Lovari

Religious & mythological terms in [Vlax] Romani

Words for People in Romanes

Romanichal Families and Terminology

Romani Suffixes Simplified

Customs and Tradition

Roma Culture: An Introduction

Birth Customs 

Marriage Customs 

Living (and Dying) According to Custom

Death Rituals and Customs 

Roma Occupations 

Roma Beliefs 

Romanipe: sans mystery

Roma Law 

Romani Holidays

The Romani Language

Romani Language Resources

Cultural Identity

The Struggle for Self-Identification

Present but Unaccounted for

Prejudice in Education

In a Time of Turmoil, a Path to Roma Self-Determination

Research and the Many Representations of Romani Identity

Arts

Romani Music and Musicians

Romani Poetry

Rromani in Art

Roma in the Theater

Romani Cookbook

Stereotypes, Slurs, and Stuff to Avoid

Moving Beyond Gypsy Stereotypes

The Roma: Myth and Reality

Myths About the Roma 

Myths About the Romani Language 

Romani Tropes 101

Cultural Appropriation and the Gypsy Industry

Analysis: Why it’s time to lay the “Gypsy” trope to rest

Useful Notes: Romani

‘Gypsy’ stereotype and the sexualization of Romani women

Roma: myth, suspicion and prejudice

Gypsy Appropriations

Books

The Romani Movement

Romani Books - The Rromani Connection website

Romani Writing: Literacy, Literature and Identity Politics

Websites

Romani Project 

Dom Research Center

Roma National Congress

Voice of Roma

Romedia Foundation

Roma Rights Watch

gypsy/gipsy is a slur, if you’re not romani it’s probably best u dont use it. while we’re at it, don’t call us gippos either

gadje/gorger/gorja and any other variant word from any romanes dialect that means “non-romani” is NOT a slur, and it’s most definitely not a slur towards white people specifically

you’re not a gypsy because you have a “free spirit” and wanderlust and wear flowy skirts. you’re not gypsy because you want to be one. if you are a gadje, you have no right to call yourself gypsy, full stop.

romani is not a fashion statement and we’re not here for your fetishization/romanticization/aesthetic (appreciating romani fashion and culture is fine. what’s not fine is appropriation or pretending to be romani when you’re not.)

do not invalidate the racism romani people face. people don’t even consider us human. i can’t even tell you how many times i’ve read comments and messages from people literally calling romani “subhuman” and meaning it. don’t silence romani voices when they speak of the racism they’ve experienced

romani people are varied and diverse. some of us are white-passing, a lot aren’t. lots of us are mixed, and when we are we can be any number of bi or even multi racial identities. we can be almost any religion or even atheistic, we’re all over the world, and we speak many languages (there are many, many dialects of romanes alone)

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