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Foregrounding marginalised voices
Pragna Patel is a founding member of Southall Black Sisters (@SBSisters), a landmark organisation in the history of black and Asian feminism. Southall Black Sisters was founded in 1979, in the aftermath of the race riots in west London. The charity campaigns for and offers practical support to women escaping domestic violence and forced marriages. Chaired by Patel, the small group has long punched above its weight. In supporting Kiranjit Ahluwalia, imprisoned for murdering her violent husband, SBS successfully challenged the legal definition of provocation, and changed an immigration rules which trapping non-British women in abusive marriages.
The group has often spoken out about the government’s community cohesion programmes, which maintains the power of male religious leaders. A secularist campaigner, Patel also co-founded Women Against Fundamentalism.
by Pragna Patel What would a set of key asks from Southall Black Sisters (SBS) look like? We can start by looking at a snapshot of the issues that SBS has faced in just the first two months of 2015; we find new and recurring themes and concerns which, taken together, encapsulate the enormity of… Read More
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