Speak Out!: The Brixton Black Women's Group

by Brixton Black Women's Group, Milo Bettochi (Editor)

The first ever collection of writing from the Brixton Black Women’s Group, one of the first and most important black radical organisations of the 1970s

"We came to Britain in search of better opportunities or to get some of the wealth which had been misappropriated from the Caribbean, but what in reality did we find?

Speak Out brings together the writings of Brixton Black Women's Group for the first time, in a landmark collection. Established in response to the lack of interest in women's issues experienced in male-dominated Black organisations, the Brixton Black Women's Group's aim was to create a distinct space where women of African and Asian descent could meet to focus on political, social and cultural issues as they affected black women.

Brixton Black Women’s Group published its own newsletter, Speak Out , which kept alive the debate about the relevance of feminism to black politics and provided a black women's perspective on immigration, housing, health and culture.

Genres: Nonfiction, Feminism

400 pages, Paperback

Published October 10, 2023

Reviews

[Owen Hatherley · Rating 4 out of 5]

A really interesting moment in London radical history unearthed, some of it ageing not so well but a lot of it - especially the constant connection between the local and international - very well indeed, and with an interview with surviving participants at the end. Also makes clear that someone needs to do a Revolution in the Air for British groups of the 60s-80s.