Tag: young women

Book of the Month – Full Frontal Feminism: A Young Woman’s Guide to Why Feminism Matters

A fresh, blunt and fun style of writing is used by Valenti to help young women make the transition from a woman that doesn’t identify herself as a feminist but has feminist values, into a proud and informed feminist.

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The Glenburn Girls celebrate

With the prevailing weather conditions during the weeks before christmas, our planned celebration and book launch for the Glenburn Girls group looked a bit touch and go. However, on Wednesday 22nd December Nisha and I, Renfrewshire libraries staff and a host of aunts, grannies, mums and dads, big sisters, baby brothers and friends did manage [...]

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Trashing the Mags

As part of the Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival, Glasgow Women’s Library are running the first of their ME(dia) sessions at the CCA.

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Masks at AYW

The Aspiring Young Women (AYW) group have been considering times when they have worn a mask to cover up their true emotions. We discussed how situations make us feel and how much of our true selves we are willing to share. This brought up issues of low self-confidence in situations such as first day at [...]

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Aspiring Young Women

The Adult Literacy and Numeracy Team are delighted to be working with the young women in Drumchapel again. Our long term literacies support has gone down a storm and the girls have done some fantastic work in the past month.

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Govan Girls

GWL visits Govan Girls: Laura and Adele take GWL learning on the road.

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