making visible

I am Indian. The Roma are my cousins, moving out of India a thousand years ago. It gives me a particular thrill because I am not politically an identitarian –it is too closely tied to reproductive heteronormativity. Just a good feeling, then, cousins.  I was in Kosovo all of last week. The Roma are not part of the face Kosovo shows to visitors. Researching the terrible plight of the contemporary Romany in Kosovo, I was reminded of the word that first made me