"Queer Roma: Perspectives on Families" and Film Screening – “Housekeeping for Beginners”

Input by Jelena Savic (Uppsala University)

Colloquium goes cinema

The award-winning family drama “Housekeeping for Beginners” by Goran Stolevski portrays a queer household that struggles to stay together. Set in North Macedonia, the feature film provides an alternative to normative representation of Roma subjectivity, kinship, care, belonging and intimacy. It invites viewers to think about relationality of Roma and non-Roma and the potentiality of their encounters and co-existence in unexpected ways. In her introduction before and the Q & A after the screening, guest speaker Jelena Savić will unpack some of the layers of the representation offered, and see if the universality the film pleads for, escapes liberal tropes on Critical Romany terms, humanizing the representation of Roma in Europe’s semi-periphery.

Jelena Savić, a Belgrade-born artivist of Roma origin is currently a Ph.D. candidate in digital humanities at Uppsala University's Center for Gender Research in Sweden focusing on digital inequalities and Roma women in Europe. She holds an MA in philosophy from Central European University, Budapest and a BA in Adult Education from the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade. Her academic work, but also poetry, performance, digital illustrations, and comic books are influenced by media and critical digital studies, feminist and critical theory, coloniality/modernity, world system theory, Afropessimism, whiteness, and critical race theory. It is focused on challenging non-Roma supremacy in Europe and canonical representations of Roma subjectivity.
 

The evening is organized in collaboration with the filmfestival frauenstark! by IAMANEH and is part of the 16-days campaign against Gender-Based Violence.

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