Every month, GWL team members and volunteers share what we’ve read recently at our Book Picnic. Here’s what we’ve been reading recently: Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton Pauline recommended this […]
Category: Blog
Staff, volunteers and student placements share updates from projects and events at Glasgow Women’s Library
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 […]
My Community Development placement
Read about Mara’s placement with us in 2023 and 2024, as part of her degree in Community Development.
Gender Studies student Maisie Taylor blogs about her placement experience at GWL
Hi! My name is Maisie and I’m a currently completing my Master’s in Gender Studies at the University of Stirling. As part of my second semester, I chose to undertake […]
April Book Picnic Recommendations
On the first Wednesday of every month, GWL team members and volunteers share what we’ve read recently at our Book Picnic: Other Women by Emma Flint Recommended by Elaine, who […]
Knitting the Woman’s Woolly: Podcast
What should have been a quick blog post, rapidly grew to four posts when Becky started writing about feminism and knitting. This is the audio version of those posts to hopefully make a long piece of writing a little more accessible.
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
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 […]