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 […]
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’.
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.
Volunteer Story-Anabel
Inspired by the “Volunteer Profiles” which featured in the GWL newsletters published in the 1990’s and 2000’s, we’re introducing some of our current volunteers, to highlight how they support our work […]
Women in Profile: From Glasgow to Nuremberg
As part of her placement at GWL, Catherine spent time in the archive researching the library’s international connections to queer and feminist groups and institutions. She also had the pleasure of speaking with Adele Patrick about her memories of Women in Profile’s early links to international groups.
Origin Story: She Settles in the Shields
Interviewing Syma Ahmed about the impact and necessity of documenting the lives of migrant women in Pollockshields.
From ‘Mother House’ to ‘Role Play’, placement student Viki explores the work of artist Pamela So
As part of our ‘GWL Origins: Pre-internet Community Building’ exhibition GWL recreated a vinyl window text site from Pam So’s ‘Mother House’ (1998) exhibited in the prior Trongate space of […]
Lesbians in Peer Support- Blog 3
This is the third and last of my blog posts about Lesbians in Peer Support (LIPS), the youth group that GWL ran from 2000 to 2006. Read the first one […]
Lesbians in Peer Support- Blog 2
This blog is the second in a series of three blogs by Catherine who is doing a six month placement at GWL as part of her PhD. Over the past three months she has been exploring the Lesbians in Peer Support (LIPS) collection which is part of GWL’s organisational archive.
“A Guiding Hand” – Founding Lesbians in Peer Support (LIPS)
This blog is the first in a series of three blogs by Catherine who is doing a six month placement at GWL as part of her PhD. Over the past three months she has been exploring the Lesbians in Peer Support (LIPS) collection which is part of GWL’s organisational archive.
“A community committed to feminist organising” Milo blogs about archiving our poster collection
I’m Milo, a Museum Studies student on placement here at GWL. It’s been a joy getting to know the GWL Poster Collection, and it’s my pleasure to share some snippets of this experience with you all.