Southall Black Sisters: domestic violence campaigns and alliances across the divisions of race, gender and class

I was born in Kenya and came to Britain at the age of four. I have known no other landscape, but I have never felt that I belonged here. With no other choice but to make my life here, I grew into a politics of resistance; against the racism that I experienced outside my home because I was the wrong colour, and against the injustices I experienced because I was the wrong gender. In this way I fashioned for myself a strong political identity, in struggle with other black men and women. Despite hovering on the margins of British society, this identity is a source of tremendous power and strength, and even, dare I say it, moral righteousness.