Older Posts: 2017
My Week at the Glasgow Women’s Library
My first day at GWL! I was initially introduced to a flurry of people – sorry, women – whom greeted me with warmth in their eyes. It was a Monday, however, and it was 10 o’clock in the morning, so everyone spoke tiredly of their weekends and got straight to work.
Catherine Morrison, Royal Army Medical Corp Nurse
Archive volunteer, Katy Owen, tells us about a wonderful new donation to the collection.
“Three Daughters of Eve” by Elif Shafak
Mother and daughter together in the car, stuck in the thankless traffic of Istanbul, on their way to a dinner party. What appears to be an everyday situation soon turns into […]
Am I Blue: A Review Taster for Story Café Special: Sister Creatures!
Alice Walker’s 1986 short work Am I Blue is a poignant and thought-provoking story which, at surface level, details a woman’s friendship with a horse she names Blue, while, on […]
Digital Book Group: Anuradha Roy Answers Our Questions
In August, GWL Digital Book Group read Sleeping on Jupiter by Anuradha Roy, winner of the 2016 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. Here Anuradha answers our reader questions.
Art workshops at Glasgow East Women’s Aid
The Speaking Out Project hosted three art workshops with Glasgow East Women’s Aid in August and September 2017 in partnership with Frances Corr, an artist and former GEWA volunteer. Some […]
Glasgow Women’s Library Shortlisted for the CILIP Libraries Change Lives Award
Glasgow Women’s Library’s popular Story Café has been shortlisted for the CILIP Libraries Change Lives Award, alongside libraries in Suffolk, Kirklees and Norfolk.
October’s Digital Book Group Read: Northanger Abbey by Val McDermid
The next book we’re reading as part of our GWL Digital Book Group is Val McDermid’s Northanger Abbey.
The Lives of Girls and Women from the Islamic World in Early Modern British Literature and Culture by Bernadette Andrea
Bernadette Andrea’s historical text The Lives of Girls and Women from the Islamic World in Early Modern British Literature and Culture traces it back to explore the lives of various Muslim women who came to Britain from the Medieval period onwards, either willingly or unwillingly to see how these early women were changed by and changed the lands they came to.
Pens, pens, pens
Sitting in the Engender Conference in the event room of the GWL, intern Luba reflects on pens. The conference started, many inspiring women talked on the stage and interesting and challenging questions were raised. With this unused pen in my left hand, I zoned out for a moment. While a smooth voice talked about “challenge”, “activism”, “fight” in the background, an idiom came to my mind: “A pen is mightier than the sword”.