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. blishing testing sites
throughout the city and negotiating terms to convert hotels into
respite sites.
