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 […]
Category: Placements and Volunteers Blog
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….
Origin Story: Mixing the Colours
Mixing The Colours (2013-2015) was a GWL project which sought to address how intra-Christian sectarianism affects women in diverse communities. Our volunteer Miranda finds out more about the origins and impact of this revolutionary project
May 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: Homelands: The History of a Friendship by Chitra Ramaswamy […]
Story Cafe: A silent voices speak by Trishna Singh OBE
Pauline reflects on a wonderful, illuminating Story Cafe with Trishna Singh… Trishna Singh OBE is a first generation Scottish Bhat Sikh born in Glasgow in1953. She moved to Edinburgh on […]
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: Etta Lemon: The Woman Who Saved the Birds by […]
Suffragette – My Story by Carol Drinkwater
“Until last year, ‘Deeds not words’,had become a passionate call but had remained a non-violent interpretation of what was needed to bring about change. Now we feel we must go further”
Story Cafe round up: women journalists
From anarchism in Spain, to photo-journalism in Yemen, Pauline gives us a fantastic round up of what we’ve been reading and chatting about… In this fascinating session (“brilliant” and “my […]
March 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: Feminist City: Claiming Space in a Man-made World by […]
Story Cafe round-up!
Pauline gives us a flavour of what we’ve been reading and chatting about so far this year, and chats to Aishwarya about Story Cafe… Aishwarya Balasubramanian has been on a […]