“My father simply beat my mother; he didn’t beat her in a gypsy manner.”
Renowned Roma activist Gelu Duminică discusses dispelling myths and revising the definition of the term “gypsy” in dictionaries. The stench of burnt human flesh is the most vivid recollection Gelu Duminică had from his research in Romania while studying sociology. “After the fall of communism, there were bloody times back then, in the ’90s and…