The Rainbow Wheel Podcast

The Rainbow Wheel is a podcast by the Romnja Feminist Library, hosted by Ana Jovanović, bringing conversations with Romani queer people from across Europe and beyond.

Named after the Romani wheel and the rainbow, which is a symbol of the LGBTQ+ community, this is a space for conversations that move across borders exploring the realities that shape our lives: identity, family, activism, belonging, culture, racism, homophobia,  transphobia, love, and everything in between.

Through honest conversations, we spotlight the people, ideas, and communities reshaping the landscape of Romani queerness and imagining different futures. These are conversations about everyday life, collective struggles, and the futures we’re imagining.

The podcast explores topics including:

  • identity, belonging, and community
  • queer and Romani experiences 
  • activism and everyday life
  • visibility, invisibility, and representation 
  • feminist organising and collective care
  • culture, art, and storytelling
  • political participation and social justice
  • imagining different futures
Logo illustration made by @trinidadreyerta.
Supported by Dalan fund.

The Rainbow Wheel Podcast

Audio trailer

Latest episode

Welcome back to the Rainbow Wheel Podcast!

In this episode, our host Ana Jovanović speaks with Antonella Lerca Duda, a Roma transgender woman and dedicated activist, about her experiences, her rich activist and political life, as well as her wishes for the Roma trans women.
Antonella is one of the most well-known trans women and activists in Romania. She fights for equality, dignity, and justice for transgender people, Romani communities, sex workers, and all marginalized  communities by turning lived experience into advocacy, visibility, and  social change.
In 2020, she published her book Sex Work Is Work, in which she speaks about her life as a sex worker in Italy.
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The Rainbow Wheel is a podcast by the Romnja Feminist Library, hosted by Ana Jovanović, bringing  onversations with Romani queer people from across Europe and beyond.
Named after the Romani wheel and the rainbow, which is a symbol of the LGBTQ+ community, this is a space for conversations that move across borders exploring the realities that shape our lives: identity, family, activism, belonging, culture, racism, homophobia,  transphobia, love, and everything in between.
Through honest conversations, we spotlight the people, ideas, and communities reshaping the landscape of Romani queerness and imagining different futures. These are conversations about everyday life, collective struggles, and the futures we’re imagining.

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The team

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Ana Jovanović

The Host
Ana Jovanović is a transgender Romani activist, human rights defender and drag artist from Novi Sad, Serbia. Her work focuses on the intersection of Romani, queer and trans identities and the multiple discrimination faced by LGBTIQ+ Roma people. She collaborates with Roma and LGBTIQ+ organisations in Serbia and across Europe and contributes to international workshops and events on Roma rights, LGBTIQ+ rights, feminism and intersectionality. Since 2022, she has worked as the LGBTIQ+ Human Rights Monitor at the European Roma Rights Centre, and she is also one of the creators of RoMagic: Proudly Queer. Unapologetically Roma exhibition.
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Aldessa Georgiana Linca

The Producer
Aldessa Georgiana Lincan is a Roma intersectional decolonial feminist activist, researcher, and community organizer, and director and co-founder of the Romnja Feminist Library. She has both institutional and grassroots experience in Roma rights and gender equality. She is co-author of Women Who Summon the Rain and currently serves on the Activist Council of the Guerrilla Foundation.
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Doriane Ferrer

The Communications and Design Lead
Doriane Ferrer is a Roma French lesbian and early-stage researcher. She is particularly interested in Romani queer performance art, which she approaches through a decolonial lens. She has experience in queer activism in Paris and currently works at the Romnja Feminist Library as the Communication, Content, and Visual Design Lead, as well as the research assistant on a project analyzing the multiple and diverse forms the multiple and diverse forms of discrimination faced by LGBTQ+ Roma people across several European countries.
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