Amrit Wilson is an activist and an award-winning writer and journalist. She was a co-founder of Awaz the first socialist, anti-racist and feminist Asian women’s organisation in Britain, active in the late 70s and early 80s. Awaz campaigned against racist and sexist immigration laws, succeeded in putting a stop to the notorious ‘virginity tests’, supported Asian workers strikes and confronted violence against women from their families. She was also an active member of OWAAD (Organisation of women of African and Asian descent).

Her writings are closely connected to the struggles against gendered racism. Her books include Finding a Voice: Asian Women in Britain (1978) which won the Martin Luther King Award, and was republished in an extended form by Daraja Press in 2018 and Dreams Questions Strugges, South Asian Women in Britain (Pluto Press 2006)

More recently, she has written and spoken extensively about Hindu supremacy, for example for the Institute of Palestine Studies and in publications including The Guardian, Open Democracy and Byline Times.

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