Sitting in on ERIAC conference that respects, honours and cares about Romani language and identity. Welsh Kale is invited and represented on a transnational basis.

Always recommend Canadian author @authormiriamtoews.bsky.social's novels. The L.A. Times called this one the "Ted Lasso of novels". #AlphabetChallenge #WeekPForPink #BookSky. 📚🍁

80th birthday photoshoot for my book cover and upcoming appearances at readings, storytelling and spoken word.

Inspired by Mozart’s pet starling whose song he used for piano concerto 21. So for my next book about birds & #Roma nomads, I’m downloading bird songs to transpose onto my harp, putting words & music together. Well, guess what? The birds are appearing and I’ve already sketched out four new poems.

My article “A People Uncounted” about the Harvard University study of Canadian Roma is now live online. Mentions: Travellers’ Times LynnHutchisonLee.bay.social www.travellerstimes.org.uk/news/2025/09...

Travellers' Times feature on my Poetry Wales Award Winning poem - Ils/Eels for Tea. Written in English & Welsh Kale Romanes, respecting Harry Turpin Wood, fisherman & rabbit catcher. "For a Welsh Romani poet, this national award in Wales is a rare honour." www.travellerstimes.org.uk/news/2023/11...

Light of Iris. Georgia O’Keeffe. Graces my bedroom wall.

International Cat Day featuring Vesta.

#internationalowlawarenessday In Welsh Kale Gypsy folklore the owl is a warning. Merimasko cheriklo - death bird, screech owl Nomadic people used bird calls to warn of approaching danger. On a dark night the hoot of an owl followed by a whistle warned of a necessary river crossing. #TeuluAbramWood

Picking up my harp playing after a year long heart condition that required surgery. Getting back into my scales, arpeggio’s and my ancestor’s #Roma Welsh Gypsy jigs and hornpipes; connecting my poetry in songwriting. #TeuluAbramWood #WelshKaleHeritage

Today is Samudaripen (Romani Holocaust) Remembrance Day. Today we remember and honour all the Roma and Sinti who perished targeted by the Nazis. Never forgotten.

Fun when my gay step son asks me to share my skin care products with him or comments on my dress made of Italian silk. But he was assaulted and injured two weeks ago and i’ll never get over the risks and fears for his safety. Sigh.

My article on Harvard University’s study about Canadian Roma, “A People Uncounted” is going into Travellers’ Times this week for publication. Just returned to writing after taking time out for fatigue, heart surgery and rest. Good to be back - my heart beat and my creative juices flowing again.

Creators what would you do? I submitted a poem about my Welsh Kale language and my family of Gypsy harpists. Then withdrew as the editor disrespected my heritage. The anthology now has two poems. One about Welsh Kale language the other about the harp. Both are first time writers & unknowns.

Our #Roma Pen International membership application is moving along well. So happy as a Roma writer and playwright to participate in bringing our human rights story with an agenda to an international audience.

One hour online with Microsoft today just to tell then I’m not interested in purchasing their AI package. Job done.

The ancestors - the greats, grandmother Winnie Wood & grandfather Edward Wood, father & daughter. Grandfathers - John Roberts, Albert Roberts; Welsh Gypsies all, sending their music across time & space. It’s a privilege telling their story in my book Akekoi: A Romani Memoir (Guernica Editions 2026).

Happy Canada Day. True north strong and free.

@doclynne.bsky.social Hi Lynn. Came across this book, ‘The Home Children’ gifted from a friend. Don’t know if you already have this photo of Quarrier’s Home Children in Brockville, Ont ., Canada. Dated 1928-1930.

Happy #Pride. As an LGBTQ+ parent and grandparent I often had my scared heart in my mouth at the thought of the potential harm to loved ones. The risks are better now, but not over yet. 🙏💕

Oh and this happened. As you do, I got a new hairdo for my 80th birthday splurge.

Want to discover more Roma creatives this #GRTHM ? Check out this starter pack made by me and our lovely @francespoesis.bsky.social (If you're a Roma creative - terms used INCLUSIVELY - and want to be added then give us a shout) OPRE ROMA! 💙❤️💚 go.bsky.app/P3TqBWi

Thank you Canadian healthcare for all the tests, consultations and monitoring in the run up to some wonderful and caring nursing for my pacemaker heart surgery by a wiz of a cardiologist that cost 0$. (Yes, I know we pay through our taxes).

Thank you.

oh my. Telling my hairdresser a story about hanging out with one of the Mamas and Papas back in the day. Drew a blank. She had no idea who i was talking about. #grandma

Had a barrage of Trump speaking points regarding Canadians boycotting travel to the USA. My reasons? As a writer, activist & filmmaker on human rights, & as Roma it would be unwise for me to cross the border, risking detention. So I support my American author friends who are marching & protesting.

May 24 is St. Sara La Kali day. She is a wise woman, imparting secret knowledge & as female #Roma we are known to have access to this veiled vision. As Saiforella Wood said, “the dear Kali gives us Kaule the gift of seeing all things.” From my memoir, Akekoi: A Romani Memoir.

‘My poetry journey into the wilderness of language was a journey where each point of arrival turned out to be a stepping stone rather than a destination.’ - Seamus Heaney writingforwellbeing.co.uk #writing #WritingCommunity #WritersCommunity

Thrilled by this review for ‘The Roma’ in The Observer, calling it a ‘an exhilarating history of resistance’ observer.co.uk/culture/book...

“On 16 May 1944, more than 600 Roma prisoners… had broken into an equipment warehouse and armed themselves with hammers, pickaxes and shovels, and taken apart the wooden sections of the bunks they slept on to make weapons. The courageous revolt … is widely referred to as Romani Resistance Day.” -COE

As a Canadian Roma and human rights activist it would be unwise for me to cross the border into the U.S., risking detention. Turns out they’ve cancelled a conference at Notre Dame & the Roma lit panel as well for the same reason. Nice to get an invitation though.

The majestic Gayer-Anderson Cat. An ancient Egyptian bronze cat figurine, usually interpreted as a representation of the Egyptian goddess Bastet. Late Period, c. 600 BC. 📷 by me #Archaeology 🏺

Signed copy of Votive up for grabs in the Authors for eSims online auction, along with over 100 (!!) other bookish items. tinyurl.com/authors4esims

On World Labyrinth Day. Walking the sacred Feminine path for world peace. Ceramics by moi.

Thank you Stelliform Press. Always happy to blurb and support a fellow Romany writer that furthers the reach of Romany literature, cos nothing about us without us.

FWIW I never took the bait from Canada’s conservatives and therefore had no animus towards Trudeau. My informed choice in the election involved reading “Values” by Mark Carney, my lived experience of residing the US and the amazing life of purpose and meaning I’ve found in Canada 🇨🇦 as an immigrant.

Veshengay Kaulay Romani chib Wood Family #Romani language.

How about reading some #ecofiction this holiday... Here is a super list of popular ecofiction #novels #BooksWorthReading #bookstoread #booklist

The poet is a performer. Poets are public property. Science can’t reach them. Poetry is secret. None of us know where we came from. ~Victor Bockris

Mark Carney will support Canadian artists and creators

Even with a 90 minute lineup we’ve already voted in the Canadian 🇨🇦 elections.

About to sign on as a founding member of PEN #Romani as a Welsh and Canadian Roma. Silence & erasure are ubiquitous as PEN America, PEN Canada, and PEN Québec Jointly Call for Books and Literature to Flow Freely Across the Shared Border - PEN America

We mourn the passing of Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel Laureate and former President of PEN International. A towering figure in world literature, his legacy as a storyteller will endure for generations. Burhan Sonmez, President of PEN International www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

Launching soon on Earth Day Eve. "Wetlands, witch girls, and whispered revenge: Origins of Desire in Orchid Fens is a haunting folk-horror masterpiece." - Justine Norton-Kertson, nerdhorror.com @stelliform.press #Romany #ecofiction #ecohorror #orchid #orchidfen #miningjustice #riverspirits

Happy birthday. Seamus Heaney.

We won at the auction bidding securing the portrait of John Roberts - Welsh Romany Harpist. In partnership with Rhiain Bebb of the Cyfeillion y Delyn Deires - Triple Harp Society we have kept his portrait in Wales. It will soon have pride of place in their performance space. #TeuluAbramWood

Getting my MS ready for publishing by Guernica Editions. Lots of fact checking, cross references and style polishing going on. Excited and a tad scary that my #Romani memoir will be a first in Canada🇨🇦.

Happy #InternationalRomaniDay. We proudly celebrate our #Welsh #Gypsy language and culture. Bringing back #WelshKale chib means it is not dead. It lives and survives with many #Romani dialects in this Canadian Roma diaspora of 100,000. We say “Opre Roma” with 14 million worldwide.

Copyright law is clear. If you want to use a creator's original, copyright work for any purpose, you need to get their permission and agree payment. Copyright law does not need revising. It needs enforcing. #DoTheWriteThing