Pauline shares what we’ve been reading and chatting about at Story Cafe this month… This Story Cafe was first planned for June 2020 so it’s only three years late! After […]
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Staff, volunteers and student placements share updates from projects and events at Glasgow Women’s Library
“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.
Open The Door 2023: Lines of Flight and my personal journey
Hi there! This is Aishwarya (she/her), a placement volunteer at my Glasgow Women’s Library. I have been working in this space since 19 September 2022 and my placement came to […]
Student placement Viki Matejova shares her feminist snailhood at GWL
Coming to the end of my placement at the library as part of my MSc in Applied Gender Studies at Strathclyde, I would like to share my experience as a […]
Story Cafe round up: Peak beyond Peak
Peak Beyond Peak: the unpublished Scottish Journeys of Isobel Wylie Hutchison compiled and transcribed by Hazel Buchan Cameron On 11th May, we welcomed Hazel Buchan Cameron to talk about her […]
Writers who are activists – Ursula Le Guin
The launch of our Summer programme brings with it the start of our literary festival Open the Door 2023 – a bold, ambitious celebration of women’s writing, reading and creativity, brimful […]
“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.
Discovering Women’s Heritage in Dennistoun
We are really excited about a new project that is just starting up in Dennistoun, thanks to funding from the Glasgow City Council Local Area Fund. GWL will be working […]
Story Cafe round up: Scotland’s witches
Pauline shares some of the highlights from our April and May Story Cafes… Wendy introduced Anabel, who was leading this Story Cafe telling of Scotland’s persecution of witches, the attempt […]
Volunteer Story- Shalini
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 and why they do it. This is Shalini’s story….