Beatrix Campbell is an award-winning writer, broadcaster and political activist. She has been a well-known figure in the Women's Liberation Movement in the UK since the early 1970s, co-founding the feminist and Marxist journal Red Rag, and was part of the Time Out staff who, after a long equal pay strike and occupation at Time Out formed the co-operatively-owned magazine City Limits.

Her books include the award-winning Wigan Pier Revisited, and her documentaries include I Shot My Husband and No One Asked Me Why. She has written about politics, crime, community, gender, child abuse and sexual politics for a range of publications from The Guardian, The Independent, The New Statesman, and Marxism Today. Her latest book, Planet Patriarchy: Global Tales of Feminism and Oppression, co-authored with Rahila Gupta, was published in 2025.

A charismatic speaker and campaigner, she has received many awards, including the Nancy Astor Media Awards Campaigning Journalist of the Year, six honorary doctorates and an OBE for services to equality.