Description

In this episode Seun Matiluko (@seunspeakss) tells us about the Brixton Black Women's Group, which formed in 1973 and disbanded around 1985. 

Further resources:

Overview of the UK Women's Liberation Movement:

https://www.bl.uk/sisterhood/articles/womens-liberation-a-national-movement

On Gerlin Bean:

https://theblackcurriculum.com/blog/black-women-activists-in-british-history-womens-history-month-2022

On Shrew magazine:

https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/shrew-magazine-1976

On Olive Morris:

https://artsandculture.google.com/story/my-heart-will-always-be-in-brixton-olive-morris-black-cultural-archives/XwWReH6wADe8xA?hl=en

On Beverley Bryan:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=aL2mV66uCBU&app=desktop

On Liz Obi:

https://rememberolivemorris.wordpress.com/2007/09/28/121-railton-road/

https://boroughphotos.org/lambeth/olive-morris-squatters-handbook/

On Zainab Abbas:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000tj50/black-power-a-british-story-of-resistance

On the Brixton Black Women's Group:

https://www.bl.uk/womens-rights/articles/black-women-activists-in-britain#footnote6

https://pasttenseblog.wordpress.com/2020/05/13/spotlight-on-londons-radical-herstory-the-brixton-black-womens-group/

On virginity testing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuWNi20xGhc

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/02/03/uk/virginity-testing-hymenoplasty-ban-uk-asequals-intl-cmd/index.html

https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/1979-02-19/debates/8b08facc-47af-41eb-b071-cce935bbda0b/ImmigrationProcedures

“Speak Out” Issues 1-4:

https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/8wGd1OOMcK7W-w?childAssetId=_QGRGCwfYMh0mA&hl=en

Film Recommendations:

Miss World 1970: Beauty Queens and Bedlam (2020, BBC)

Misbehaviour (2020, Pathé, BFI and BBC Films) starring Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Keira Knightley

Cedar Wood & Silk- https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-cedar-wood-silk-1995-online

Music Recommendation:

The Women’s Liberation Music Archive

Matumbi- Empire Road