Ioanida Costache

Ioanida Costache is PhD candidate in ethnomusicology at Stanford University. Her research explores issues of race and ethnicity, performance/construction of identity, cultural memory, trauma, and history as they intersect in Romanian-Romani musico-oral culture.

Debates, Events

March 23, 2021

Roma Futurism and Roma Healing: historical trauma, possible futures, and a new humanism

Roma Futurism – emancipation forged in the cauldron of the witch and not in the chambers of parliament; a vision for a future in which Romani women are free from patriarchy and racial oppression.

— Ioanida Costache