Hello! My name is Kirsten, and I am currently undertaking a MSc in Applied Gender Studies. Part of my master’s is a research placement which I am completing at the […]
Category: GWL at 30
Glasgow Women’s Library celebrated its 30th anniversary in September 2021. As we now enter our fourth decade, we are thrilled to be recipients of a grant from the National Lottery Heritage Fund for a two year project to interpret, safeguard and share our own 30-year heritage, and enable us to ‘look back to move forward’.
Gender Studies Student Kirstin Murray blogs on Photographing Lesbian Activism (3 of 3)
Glasgow Women’s Library (GWL) has a rich history and connection to LGBTQ+ activism, specifically lesbian activism. Within GWL’s collection of photographic material there are photographs of the Lesbian Avengers organising […]
Gender Studies Student Kirsten Murray blogs on Who Writes Our Stories (2 of 3)
While looking through and cataloguing Glasgow Women’s Library’s (GWL) collection of photographic material I noticed photographs from book signings and events that authors had attended. Most noticeably there are photographs […]
Gender Studies student Maisie Taylor blogs about Writing the LGBTQ+ Research Guide and The Lesbian Avengers
During the development of the LGBTQ+ research guide, I had the chance to explore a wide variety of collections and topics such as the Lesbian Avengers. The Lesbian Avengers were […]
Volunteer Stories -Three Decades of Volunteering
Watch a video featuring past and present volunteers sharing their memories of their time at GWL.
GWL at 30: LGBTQ+ work
In this podcast volunteers Niamh and Joy chat with Archivist Mae Moss, Volunteering Programme Assistant Ren Clark, and Director Sue John (also an early instigator of GWL in the 1990s) about the role of lesbian activism, the evolution of language used to describe the LGBTQ+ community, the Lesbian Archive and other aspects of GWL’s work which have been significant in fore fronting the lives, histories and culture of LGBTQ+ people in Scotland.
GWL at 30 Podcast: Green
In this episode we find out more about how ecofeminism and care for the environment have impacted our work in the past three decades.
GWL at 30 Podcast: Access
In this episode, we look at what “access” and “accessibility” means at GWL and how this has influenced our work in the past three decades.
Gender Studies Placement Student Robyn Duffy blogs about her time with 30 years of GWL’s media archive
Hi, my name is Robyn, and I’m a student at the University of Stirling, completing my Masters in Gender Studies. In the spring of this year, I had the pleasure […]
Three Decades of Changing Minds Podcasts
Starting in November 2022 volunteers supported by staff developed, produced, recorded and edited a series of podcasts exploring the work of GWL over three decades on six key themes: Access, Anti-Racism, LGBTQ+, Violence against Women, Environment and Sustainability, and Change Making.