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Mukti
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Feminist women's magazine based in London in the 1980s
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London
About
Mukti was a magazine published in the mid-1980s by South Asian women. Starting in 1983, it was supported by a grant from the Greater London Council and published in six languages –English, Urdu, Hindi, Gujarati, Bengali and Punjabi. It covered a range of issues from immigration law and British racism to relationships, sex, sexuality and family life.
Forster, Laurel, Magazine Movements: Women’s Culture, Feminisms and Media Form (London: Bloomsbury, 2015)
'Mukti‘, Liberating Histories Periodicals Guide, Liberating Histories, https://liberatinghistories.org/resources/periodicals-guide/mukti
Thomlinson, Natalie, ‘"Second-Wave" Black Feminist Periodicals in Britain’, Women: A Cultural Review 27.4 (2016), pp. 432–45
Mukti: Asian Women's Journal, LSE Digital Library, https://digital.library.lse.ac.uk/documents?filter_21=Mukti%3A%20Asian%20Women%27s%20Journal&applyState=true
Image credit
© Remaking Britain: South Asian Connections and Networks, 1930s – present
