Relying on the Mills’ idea of global white supremacy (Mills 2003) this work is conceptualized on the proposition of the European Gadjo (non-Roma) supremacy as a socio-cultural-economic-political model of Gadjo domination and presupposed European Gadjo privileges. These privileges are defined as a modality of white privileges (McIntosh 1988), as an invisible package of unearned assets Gadjo people acquire by the contingent fact of their birth as Gadjo in Europe. The lecture recognizes and provides an analysis of intersectional conjunction of queer identity and whiteness as one of the problematic positionalities of “good white people”, marking some of the obstacles to antiracism focusing on Gadjo privileges. The paper also investigates potentialities for meaningful engagement in anti-racist practices from this standpoint and contributes to the avoidance of performative solidarity politics and building of substantive Gadjo queer allyship.

Jelena Savić is a Roma feminist and activist from Belgrade, Serbia. She holds a BA degree in Adult Education from the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade and acquired her MA in Philosophy at the Central European University, Budapest, Hungary. Jelena’s MA thesis is on dehumanization at the intersection of sexism, racism, and speciesism. Her later academic focus is on whiteness in Europe and Critical Race Theory. In addition, she works on the concepts of European Gadjo supremacy, privileges, and ignorance. In 2019, Jelena published a chapter “Heroines of Ours: Between Magnificence and Maleficence” in “The Romani Women’s Movement: Struggles and Debates in Central and Eastern Europe”, published by Routledge.