Amrit Wilson

Amrit Wilson (born 1941), Indian by birth and based in Britain, is a writer, journalist and activist who since the 1970s has focused on issues of race and gender in Britain and South Asian politics.

Wilson grew up in India and came to Britain as a student in 1961.

She became a freelance journalist in 1974, and was active as an anti-racist militant in the 1970s.

Her 1978 book Finding a Voice: Asian Women in Britain won the Martin Luther King Award, and remains an influential feminist book.

Wilson's book Finding a Voice: Asian Women in Britain, first published in 1978 and reprinted 40 years later, has been described as "[c]hallenging the views of South Asian women as weak, submissive, one-dimensional stereotypes" and as having "cleared the space for Asian women to speak for themselves".

Wilson was a founder member of Awaz, the UK's first Asian feminist collective, and was active in OWAAD, the Organisation of Women of Asian and African Descent (1978–82).

She was formerly chair of Imkaan, a national network of Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic and Refugee women's refuges and services for women facing violence, and is a founder member of South Asia Solidarity Group.

She also was Senior Lecturer in Women's Studies/South Asian Studies at Luton University.

Her other book publications include Dreams, Questions, Struggles: South Asian Women in Britain (London: Pluto Press, 2006), and as a journalist she has been published in outlets including Ceasefire Magazine, Media Diversified, openDemocracy and The Guardian.