Category: Blog

Staff, volunteers and student placements share updates from projects and events at Glasgow Women’s Library

Connecting you to other activists from around the globe

Published on 18th March, 2024 by Aishwarya Balasubramanian

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

Published on 18th March, 2024 by Aishwarya Balasubramanian

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 […]

Volunteer Stories -Three Decades of Volunteering

Published on 15th March, 2024 by Ren C

Watch a video featuring past and present volunteers sharing their memories of their time at GWL.

March Book Picnic Recommendations

Published on 14th March, 2024 by Jenna Haskins

On the first Wednesday of every month, GWL team members and volunteers share what we’ve read recently at our Book Picnic: Sambac Beneath Unlikely Skies by Heba Hayek CW: Eating […]

Beverly McFarlane and her journey with activism

Published on 12th March, 2024 by Aishwarya Balasubramanian

I was brought up with a strong sense of right and wrong, but ironically, some of those who taught me failed to abide by their own teaching. Bullying, physical and […]

New fiction

Published on 8th March, 2024 by GWL Volunteer

Forbidden notebook by Alba de Cespedes Out running an errand Valeria Cossati gives in to a sudden impulse-she buys a shiny black notebook. She starts keeping a diary in secret, […]

GWL at 30: LGBTQ+ work

Published on 5th March, 2024 by Gabrielle

In this podcast volunteers Niamh and Joy chat with Archivist Mae Moss, Volunteering Programme Assistant Ren Clark, and Director Sue John (also an early instigator of GWL in the 1990s) about the role of lesbian activism, the evolution of language used to describe the LGBTQ+ community, the Lesbian Archive and other aspects of GWL’s work which have been significant in fore fronting the lives, histories and culture of LGBTQ+ people in Scotland.