• #8 WOMEN AND THE BRIXTON BLACK WOMEN'S GROUP

  • Jun 20 2022
  • Length: 23 mins
  • Podcast

#8 WOMEN AND THE BRIXTON BLACK WOMEN'S GROUP

  • Summary

  • 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

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