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Romanichal (English gypsy), her ancestors are also French, Irish and Scandinavian.
Lost, or so it seemed, in the land of people not of kind for many years and for many duplicitous reasons, Whitehorse was late to learn she is Alban gypsy on her mother’s ancestral line. She does not consider the common term a slur. As an elder she is drabarni (ćovaxani) and so wears black, mostly, to indicate her status as one who sees in the dark. She is also directly descended from Caradoc ap Cunobelin of the Catuvellaun tribe at the time of the Claudian invasions. Hence her book PRITENI | THE DECIMATION OF THE CELTIC BRITONS.
Writer, psychic,mystic, trainer and master storyteller, she has been in print since 1987, works with the public teaching and sharing, and has done for over forty years. Her work includes anglo-linguistic anthropology; knowing that REALLY listening is one of humanity’s most astute gifts of relationship with earth, sea, sky ourselves and our kinship to other beasties.
DRABARNI
Whitehorse has worked in all aspects of theatre, as a silversmith, trained with hounds and horses from a very young age. Is a healer and a cousin-animal whisperer. A spell caster whose work is rarely seen by others. She is heavily inked and, into her seventieth cycle around the sun, continues to tattoo herself and a select few others, with sigils and stories of power, through her boutique domain called Skin Spells. She is an environmental 3D artist, building stone people into landscape protectors. She knows the so-called dead don’t go anywhere and forests communicate in many languages. She is constantly listening.
OTHER
Although also a practitioner of Hapkido, Aikido and Dark Age Fighting (with broadsword and staff), Whitehorse holds the title of 3rd Dan in the martial art of Iaido. She maintains the legacy of the Australian dojo.
Mother of three and grandmother of five.
ACCOLADES
COVR, USA. Visionary Fiction | for The Quickening (1st in the Traveler Series, novel)
Byron AllShorts (Flickerfest), Australia | for The Redemption of Joe Frame (film)
Byron International Film Festival, Australia | for The Redemption of Joe Frame (film)
Byron International Film Festival, Australia | for Wings (film)
Tahiti International Fim Festival, for The Redemption of Joe Frame
GritLit, Canada | for Comeuppance (short story).
Jesus Christ Superstar | 2000, 2001 (live stage) Director
Reclaiming culture, Byron Bay, 1990s
ARA — Advocacy for the end of child trafficking
There is more. She would rather discuss this in person.