Crissie

Biography

Crissie is a 75 year-old mixed race daughter born in the UK to a German mother and Nigerian father – migrants who helped rebuild Britain after WW2.  A survivor of child abuse, she has a history of campaigning with women in the UK against racism, sexism, and across different races and nationalities. She’s been in a lesbian partnership since 1985 helping raise three daughters and is now a co-grannie of four. 

She co-founder of Black Women’s Rape Action Project & Global Women Against Deportations: campaigning since 1986 against rape, domestic violence, poverty, police racism and for safety/protection/resources for women seeking asylum. She’s spoken at demonstrations/protests/panels and done media interviews.

Together with other in Global Women Against Deportations*, she campaigns against the racist, inhumane asylum and immigration laws which are life-threatening  . Since 2005, she helped women in Yarl’s Wood Immigration and Removal Centre who went on hunger strike enabling  them to speak out about the horrendous conditions they are held in – and hosted a press conference about rape and sexual abuse and violence perpetrated by predatory guards. She campaigns for an end to detention, deportation and destitute experienced by survivors of rape and domestic violence.

Crissie went to all the nightly protests after Sarah Everard’s rape-murder in Parliament Square, and spoke from the platform.

*Global Women Against Deportations includes the All African Women’s Group – women asylum seekers and refugees from every continent – along with Legal Action for Women, Women Against Rape (incorporating Black Women’s Rape Action Project) and Women of Colour/Global Women’s Strike.