Feminist magazine Spare Rib published a pattern for a handknitted jumper in 1982. As volunteer Becky knitted one up for our collection, the more there was to learn about the jumper and its position in the history of knitting and feminism.
Category: Blog
Staff, volunteers and student placements share updates from projects and events at Glasgow Women’s Library
Book Picnic: January 2024
Every month, GWL team members and volunteers share what we’ve read recently at our Book Picnic. Here’s what we’ve been reading over the festive break.
Story Cafe round up: radio pioneers
Pauline shares what we’ve been reading and chatting about at Story Cafe lately… Sometimes a Story Cafe idea stems from something Wendy or I have read. A few weeks ago […]
New Books
Yellowface – Rebecca F. Kuang Athena Liu is a literary darling and June Hayward is literally nobody. When Athena dies in a freak accident, June steals her manuscript and publishes […]
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 […]
December 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: Last Seen in Lhasa by Claire Scobie In this […]
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.
Announcing Our Bold Types 2023 Winners!
We are delighted to announce the winners of the 11th Bold Types Creative Writing Competition.