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Most Romani survivors never got any financial compensation for the Romani genocide (nor for the 500 years of chattel slavery Eastern European Roma had to endure in Romania).

Nowadays, 80% of European Sinti and Roma live in poverty. The EU average is 17%. (source)

Eastern European countries like Romania, Hungary or Bulgaria are the hubs of the European sex trafficking system. In those countries, Romani women are segregated in ghettos, Romani girls are segregated in schools with poor funding and of poor quality. (source; source)

Of all prostituted women in Eastern Europe, Romani women make up:

50% of Bulgaria's

a 'high' but unknown number of Slovakia's and Hungary's

50% of Romania's

And that number is increasing. (source; source)

Romani women are disproportionately harmed by the sex trade. Yet no data is available about Romani women and sex trafficking -- because no organization cares enough to look into it! We only know that Romani people are more vulnerable to human trafficking, because of economic inequalities (source). Germany and Romania, in particular, are fully responsible for this, considering neither of those countries properly (or ever) compensated Romani victims of genocide and slavery.

Here is a thread explaining how a cycle of poverty leads to prostitution among the Hungarian Romani community:

The European men who were raping Romani women in concentration camps and during slavery are exactly the same as the European men who are now raping Romani women in German brothels. When you're a Romani girl in Europe you get told you are dirty and poor by the same men who sexualize you.

And the irony is that much of the antiracist Romani movement is comprised of Romani NGOs funded and backed by the EU, the same EU that tolerates the sex trade, that tolerates German brothels, that supports 'sex work'. Most of those Romani NGOs are funded by George Soros' Open Society Fundation, the same George Soros behind the Red Umbrella project, the same George Soros funding the pimping lobby in Europe. So now you have Romani 'feminist' organizations like E-Rromnja, the biggest in Romania, that want to decriminalize prostitution.

This is how misogyny, racism, bad compensation/memory politics, and the neoliberal agenda work together to make sure Romani women keep fueling the European sex trade. Germany, and the rest of Europe, found a new, liberal way to keep oppressing us.

things like endometriosis can develop in an estrogen-dominated system, because its the hormones that cause the growth of endometrial lesions, not the “parts” themselves. If you’re experiencing unusually painful symptoms* then you have a right to find a doctor who will take you seriously and not try to gaslight you into thinking that the pain is “normal”.

There is a chance that this leads to you being told to stop taking estrogen, but that isn't a reason to not go. You could end up dead otherwise, and no, not because of fucking endometriosis.

Endometriosis doesn't happen in male bodies just because they are taking estrogen. It can happen if they have certain leftover dormant embryological cells from the time they were still developing in their mother's wombs, and THEN these cells get stimulated by estrogen years later. That has been recorded to have happened 16 times in the whole fucking planet in the whole fucking human history, usually to males with prostate cancer. So whatever you fucking do, don't jump to that conclusion first. You'd have a child's level understanding of the matter if you did.

This is not surprising, of course. Male violence against women is a key pillar of our political system. How else do we perpetuate violence onto other groups? Onto immigrants, POC, transexuals, Jews, Muslims.

If there aren't 'bad' men to hurt women how are the 'good' men supposed to protect them? To have dominion over them?

To call it femicide would be to call attention to the true cause, not the politically useful cause. It would be to undermine the foundation of this country.

A life time of service to the right wing and her murder will be forgotten by her peers once they realise they can't politicise it for their chauvinistic agenda.