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Taking advantage of the International Roma Day, which takes place every 8 April, last Wednesday we dedicated a day to make relevant Roma women visible through the translation of biographies.

On this occasion, our partner Elena Ibáñez (@felixdido) was in charge of coordinating the proposal and preparing the list of articles to be translated on relevant Roma women in different areas and from different countries.

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Number of participants: 10
Number of articles translated: 24

1. Panna Czinka (1711-1772) Hungarian Gypsy violinist
2. Maria Severa Onofriana (disambiguation) (1820-1846) singer, guitarist and founder of Fado
3. La Mejorana (1862-1922) flamenco dancer who inspired Manuel de Falla his work Sorcerer love
4. Elisa Cansino Queen (1896-1990) dancer, vaudeville performer and Spanish dance teacher
5. Nina Dudarova (1903-1992) Russian teacher, poet, writer and translator
6. Ljalja Tschornaja (1909-1982) Russian actress, dancer and singer
7. Rosa Bouglione (1910-2018) French circus artist and matriarch of the Bouglione circus family
8. Elena Lacková (1921-2003) first gypsy writer of the former Czechoslovakia
9. Hildegard Franz (1921-2013) imprisoned at Auschwitz and Buchenwald along with her three daughters
10. Gabi Luncă (1938-2021) Romanian folk and lute singer
11. Sandra Jayat (1939) is a French Romani poet, writer and painter
12. Valentina Ponomaryova (1939) Russian singer, performer of Russian romances and jazz vocalist
13. Melanie Spitta (1946-2005) film director, human rights activist and feminist
14. Anita Awosusi (1956) author, publisher, music and civil rights activist in Germany
15. Kiba Lumberg (1956) Finnish artist and author of kaale descent
16. Hedina Sijerčić (1960) Bosnian Roma journalist, broadcaster, translator, poet and linguistic researcher
17. Karola Fings (1962) German historian and author
18. Delaine Le Bas (1965) British artist of Roma origin
19. Petra Gelbart (1978) Czech educator, musicologist and human rights activist
20. Tayo Jessica Onutor (1978) German RnB and soul singer, and activist
21. Katalin Bársony (1982) Hungarian director and filmmaker
22. Selma Selman (1991) Bosnian-American visual artist and performer of Roma origin
23. Leonor Teles (1992) Portuguese film director
24. Cátia Montes, Portuguese Roma human rights activist and firefighter