Author: Alice

LGBTQ Collections Online Resource Launch!

Published on 23rd March, 2017 by Alice

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We’re excited to launch a brand new online resource to augment our Lesbian Archive and LGBTQ Archive and Museum collections at GWL! Since April 2016, GWL has been working with […]

Come Together

Published on 9th February, 2017 by Alice

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I’m Alice, and I currently work at GWL as a sessional worker, working specifically on the collection which is popularly known as the Lesbian Archive. My job is to work […]

Sappho and Lesbian Visibility – Making the Personal Political

Published on 14th September, 2016 by Alice

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This is the first in a series of four blog posts discussing and reframing Sappho magazine, a gay women’s publication that ran from 1972 until 1981. For my research […]

Seeing Things Volunteers go to Rochdale to see Tall Tales

Published on 8th July, 2016 by Alice

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On Saturday, a small group of volunteers and group members from the Seeing Things group got the opportunity to attend the Tall Tales exhibition currently on at Touchstones Gallery in […]

Seeing Things Review of Trips at Glasgow International

Published on 1st July, 2016 by Alice

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The Seeing Things group had a great series at trips seeing just some of the shows by fantastic women artists that were on as part of Glasgow International Festival in […]

Submissions for Hens Issue #7 are now open!

Published on 3rd March, 2016 by Alice

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Hens Tae Watch Oot Fur is the queer feminist zine project run through the library, and encompasses library volunteers as well as outside contributors! We are opening submissions for Hens […]

Hens Tae Watch Oot Fur Issue 6 is now available!

Published on 4th February, 2016 by Alice

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The latest issue of Hens Tae Watch Oot Fur is now available to buy in the library, and also online via our shop! In this issue the hens explored the theme […]

Seeing Things give their views of their trip to the Turner Prize

Published on 3rd December, 2015 by Alice

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Two weeks ago GWL’s Seeing Things group visited the Turner Prize, Britain’s most high profile annual contemporary art prize currently on show at Glasgow Tramway. Sometimes controversial, the prize provokes […]

Seeing Things visit to Edinburgh Book Festival, Ghada Karmi & Kate Tempest

Published on 11th November, 2015 by Alice

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This is Seeing Things group member, Louisina Currie’s, first forray into the world of blogging! Here she writes about her trip to Edinburgh Book Festival in August of this year… […]

Seeing Things Best of 2015 (so far!)

Published on 17th September, 2015 by Alice

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For the last two years the Seeing Things group has been going to see art exhibitions; book launches and readings; artists talks and other performances in Glasgow and further afield. […]