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Category: Open the Door
Open the Door 2025: Leela Soma (1947-2022)
Blog compiled and written by Saadia Pirzada Leela Soma was a poet and novelist based in Milngavie, East Dunbartonshire. She was born in the state of Tamil Nadu in South […]
Open the Door 2025: Beldina Odenyo Onassis (1990-2021)
Blog compiled and written by Saadia Pirzada Beldina Odenyo Onassis, also known as Heir of the Cursed, was a Kenyan-Scottish musician, singer, poet and writer. She was born in Kenya […]
Open the Door 2025: Beatrice Colin (1963-2019)
Blog compiled and written by Saadia Pirzada Beatrice Colin was a novelist and radio dramatist, writing seven novels (two for children) and numerous plays for BBC Radio. She was born […]
Doors Open Days 2024
Visit Glasgow Women’s Library this Doors Open Day and hear about our Net Zero plans, upcoming insulation works, and see our ‘She Settles In the Shields’ exhibition which explores the personal histories of migrant women in Pollokshields.
Drop-in building tours will take place on Friday 20 th 11am and 3pm, and Saturday 21 st 1pm and 3pm.
I hope my voice has spoken to you – the finale
Endings can be irritating, tough and intolerable. When I begun working on Open The Doors during the last weeks of December 2022, I had this feeling bugging me ‘I have […]
Sapna Agarwal – artist, educator and community organiser
Sapna Agarwal (she/her) is an artist, educator and community organiser. She runs the Woodlands Community Anti-Racist-Library and is the founding member of Glasgow’s longest running home education group, a non-hierarchical, all ages, social […]
My visits to Saint Albert’s Primary School in Glasgow
Through the recommendations of Caroline and Beverly, I made my first trip to this unique primary school situated in Pollokshields. I call this school unique because the leaders of this […]
Connecting you to other activists from around the globe
Imani Barbarin – A black woman activist with cerebral palsy. Having done a degree in creative writing from the Eastern University, Imani is a disability rights activist and is keen […]
Responses from Jude Mckechnie
Jude Mckechnie is a Glasgow based cultural historian and blog writer. She has workedfor Govanhill Baths Community Trust for the past two years and has helped tocoordinate and curate a […]