Words that don’t come easy. Intersectional and post-colonial feminist understandings about Roma in East-European societies
Words that don’t come easy. Intersectional and post-colonial feminist understandings about Roma in East-European societies

Summary/Abstract: As an anthropologist, during the last two decades, I conducted fieldwork among Romanian Roma dwellers and/or migrants in various national contexts. As a feminist, I paid much attention to gender relations and to intersectional issues. I often focused my attention on women’s agency. I can paraphrase Gayatri Spivak’s question by saying that I was and I am interested on how, when and in which political conditions the Roma women can speak… or be silent/silenced. My fieldwork experience as well as the postcolonial and critical theory readings I have done led me to ask questions about racism and sexism which embrace all my women and gender relations centered research on Roma. This text is a personal epistemological manifesto emerged from this interrogation. In its lines, I examine how a Gadji (non-Roma) feminist anthropologist, like me, could discuss the race and racism issues in contemporary societies that Roma are part of? Its writing is also produced by a certain frustration of not being heard enough among European peers when stating orally the following arguments.

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