Selma Selman

#CelebrateLifePodcast EP36 Bahtalo o Mashkarthemutno Dive e Romengoro! Today is 8-th of April, International Roma Day, I had a chance to speak with Selma Selman she’s a Roma woman coming from Bosnia and Herzegovina. She installs creativity, but also identity aspects into her artwork. As a daughter coming from a family that earns their living from collecting and selling iron, Selma uses iron and reusable materials to draw on. In her art show Mercedes Matrix she takes her family with her and they break a Mercedes in front of an audience in order to question the labor and capitalism in Roma settings and beyond. She is an active player in the media scene. From being popular in media interviews to promoting her work online, she says that as a Roma woman has been targeted by a lot of hate speech from white people. Selma’s mechanism to fight hate is actually to ignore to the point where haters become conscious of their own unhappiness. This episode of the podcast “Young and Diverse“ is produced as part of the Reporting Diversity Network 2.0 project in cooperation with the podcast Celebrate Life. The network is established with the objective to counter hateful narratives in the Western Balkans and effectively influence the representation of ethnicity, religions and gender. The Reporting Diversity Network is a project funded by the European Union, Balkan Trust for Democracy and the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Belgrade.

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