Author: Adele

Demanding more of Feminist Leadership

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This post was published 4 years ago. You can explore more recent posts through the categories and tags.

We all have a capacity and responsibility to lead whether we are parenting, nurturing the talents of others, taking on a role in a cultural organisation, steering activist campaigns or showing up to call out inequality in the home or workplace. If we do understand ourselves to be leaders then what are the demands we make of ourselves to use any capacity we might have to bring about change?

Moving Mountains: Visioning Intersectional Feminist Leadership

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This post was published 5 years ago. You can explore more recent posts through the categories and tags.

Adele writes about her ‘productive pause’ in 2018/19, after 27 years as a volunteer and staff team member at GWL, to undertake a Clore Fellowship. You can get a flavour of the wide range of activities, visits and collaborations she undertook during a jam-packed seven months of intense learning. The Fellowship gave her time to think about her contribution to the GWL story and the other ways in which she had ‘lived her feminist life’, and what she might demand of herself going forward.

Revolting Women Playlists

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This post was published 6 years ago. You can explore more recent posts through the categories and tags.

Adele Patrick, Glasgow Women’s Library’s Lifelong Learning and Creative Development Manager, is a Guest Selector at this year’s Edinburgh International Book Festival. In her role as Guest Selector, Adele asked women writers […]

A silver lined 25th year

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This post was published 7 years ago. You can explore more recent posts through the categories and tags.

Our 25th year has truly been celebratory and silver lined. From September 2016 to September 2017 we have made space and time for reflections, unearthing and showcasing our history, and reconnecting with people who have helped us grow from a grassroots project in the humblest of premises to a Recognised Collection with over 20 staff housed in a beautiful multi award winning building.

Clare Henry’s Article Archive comes to GWL

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This post was published 10 years ago. You can explore more recent posts through the categories and tags.

Clare Henry is one of the titans of Scottish journalism, and Glasgow Women’s Library are proud that Clare has chosen to donate copies of all her articles bound in book form to our collection.