Older Posts: 2015
107 Books Later, or, Nine Years and 5 Months with Glasgow Women’s Library
Book Group member Louise reflects on 9 1/2 years of reading – and more…
GWL launches beautiful newly renovated home
Today, Glasgow Women’s Library celebrates the launch of its newly refurbished building, with a visit from First Minister Nicola Sturgeon.
Our Love Is… Film Season Prize Draw
Special fortnightly prize draw as part of our BFI LOVE season film screenings where we take love from the page to the screen and celebrate films to fall in love with and films to break your heart.
What Women Talk About When They Talk About Sex Transcript #4: Thighs, Sex and Apologising
In this fascinating set of extracts the group gets to grips with the patriarchal (media) fragmentation of the body and some of the consequences of adopting the props of sexuality, whether stockings or fishnets for the living, breathing, sweating and moving female body . This discussion shifts to related topics of gendering, significantly the socialising of women into habitual apologising. The group concludes by returning to the ineffable question of ‘what women want’ from sex.
What Women Talk About When They Talk About Sex: Podcast #4
This is the fourth in a series of podcasts that share some of the discussion from a group ‘What women talk about when they talk about sex’ that took place at Glasgow Women’s Library during Spring and Summer 2015 as part of our Sex in The Women’s Library Season supported by the Wellcome Trust.
Nimona by Noelle Stevenson
The character of Nimona in Noelle Stevenson’s web comic turned published graphic novel is an incredible character in an amazing challenging story. Nimona tells the story of the troubled Lord […]
Ms Marvel Volume 1 by G. Willow Wilson
Representation is a vital thing. It lets us know that we aren’t different or weird and it makes us know we aren’t alone. In the character of Ms. Marvel or […]
Interviewing Ciara Phillips- A Young Critic’s Perspective
Young Critic Esme’s blog about interviewing artist Ciara Phillips whose work is exhibited until April 2016 at the Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA) in the Ripples on the Pond exhibition.
Bold Types Creative Writing Competition Judges Announced
We are delighted to announce that Bashabi Fraser and Lucy Ribchester are amongst our judges for this year’s Bold Types Women’s Writing Competition.
What Women Talk About When They Talk About Sex Transcript #3: Backs and Bras
In these exchanges the group tackles the time honoured feminist territory of bras. Issues of management, the judgement and surveillance of oneself and by others, presentation and concealment of the body and ideas of private and public display of breasts are shared and there is discussion of how backs are also subject to criticism and policing.