* WITCH / AVENGER

❛ Don't be so quick to judge witches.❜

independent + semi-selective + canon divergent Wanda Maximoff bewitched by Itzel

❛ Don't be so quick to judge witches.❜

independent + semi-selective + canon divergent Wanda Maximoff bewitched by Itzel

TW: POLICE BRUTALITY, DEATH

The footage circulating on social media shows three officers intervening against a young Romani man who keeps trying to get out from under them. One officer holds the man's feet, another then kneels on his neck for several minutes.

A third officer helps handcuff the man, who is shouting. Several Romani people who are bystanders can be heard in the footage commenting on the intervention.

"They're smothering him," a woman's voice can be heard to say. "That's their job," a man's voice says, defending the police intervention.

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In May of 1944, Roma and Sinti prisoners staged an armed resistance against the planned "liquidation" of the gypsy camps, which would have led to the mass murder of approximately 6,000 Romani. Thanks to the efforts of the Roma and Sinti interned at Auschwitz, these execution plans were staggered and delayed for several months. We hold this day to honor their bravery, mourn their deaths, and memorialize that which the Romani community endured under the Nazi regime.

You can learn some more about Romani Resistance Day, and the ongoing effort to preserve the Berlin memorial to murdered Roma and Sinti against Deutsche Bahn's railroad development, by listening to this episode of Smith's Kushti Podcast.

ninety-eight percent of humanity spends their time in the womb alone. not me. i am a twin, which means that my sister and i knew each other before we were born. in the beginning, it was just us.