Speak Out (newsletter)

Speak Out was a second-wave feminist newsletter, launched in 1977 by the Brixton Black Women's Group (BBWG). The aim of the newsletter was to keep alive the debate about the relevance of feminism to black politics and provided a black women's perspective on immigration, housing, health and culture.

The editorial of the first issue describes one of its objectives to "we free our minds to free our bonds and our sisters bonds!" The fifth and final issue was published in 1983.

The publication "frequently used a 'Marxist framework' to criticise the racism of the State". Contributions to Speak Out marking International Women's Day in 1982 connected local Black feminist activism to international efforts towards furthering women's rights around the world. Group member Melba Wilson explained how the magazine was a way of furthering BBWG's aims to support other causes, including "independence for Palestine. Groups fighting for South African independence […] We worked with Irish groups who were fighting for Irish independence and those kinds of initiatives."

Speak Out was one of several feminist small press publications in the 1970s-1980s which supported communities of Black and Asian women, which included addressing issues facing mothers, workers, lesbians and queer women, including FOWAAD (published by OWAAD), We Are Here, and Mukti.