Liz Obi
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Elizabeth Obi is a British activist who was involved in the feminist, black nationalist, and squatters' rights campaigns of the 1970s. A close friend of Olive Morris, in 2009 she founded the Remembering Olive Collective, which researches and documents Morris's life.
Life
In 2008, Obi set up the Remembering Olive Collective (ROC) in tandem with Ana Laura Lopez de la Torre, intending to commemorate the life of Olive Morris.[1] In 2015, Obi took part in the conference "Black British Feminism: Past, Present and Futures" at the Black Cultural Archives in Brixton organised by a new generation of Black British feminists such as Chardine Taylor-Stone and others.[2][3]
References
- ↑ Longley, Oumou (November 2021). "Olive and me in the archive: a Black British woman in an archival space". Feminist Review. 129 (1): 123–137. doi:10.1177/01417789211041898. ISSN 0141-7789. S2CID 244348631.
- ↑ "14 March 2015 12:00 ~ Black British Feminism: Past, Present and Futures – Black Cultural Archives – London | womensgrid – women's news". www.womensgrid.org.uk. 19 February 2015. Retrieved 16 December 2022.
- ↑ Bangura, Siana (13 March 2015). "I too am Black and a Feminist: On the importance of Black British Feminism". Media Diversified. Retrieved 16 December 2022.