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Trans Zines: Launching Our New Display

Glasgow Women's Library 23 Landressy Street, Glasgow

Our archive is full of incredible zines donated to us over the years by their makers and fanz. Health and heartaches, music and menstruation, our zines are full of knowledge […]

Comfort

Glasgow Women's Library 23 Landressy Street, Glasgow

Comfort the Breast Quilt, was made by 180 women and teenage girls from across the UK. The artwork explores the subject of breasts, from prepubescent hopes, aging, breastfeeding, sexualization, operations and hormones for health or cosmetic issues, to transgender women feminization. These are women’s stories of embarrassment, pleasure, pain and joy. 

We Deserve A Medal: Militant Suffrage Activism

Glasgow Women's Library 23 Landressy Street, Glasgow

Due to popular demand we have extended the celebration of Glasgow Women’s Library’s recent acquisition of Maud Joachim’s hunger strike medal, with a rare opportunity to see two other special medals in this exhibition of militant suffrage memorabilia.

Project Esperanza

Glasgow Women's Library 23 Landressy Street, Glasgow

Eve-Hawa Quilt, 2023Fabric, shells, bamboo canesThe Project Esperanza ‘Eve/Hawa Quilt’ is a poignant tapestry woven by the skilled hands of Project Esperanza's Women's sewing group in Edinburgh. More than a […]

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Grit and Diamonds Exhibition at Dundee Women’s Festival

Dundee Central Library Wellgate, Dundee

This exhibition celebrates women blowing their own trumpets in the fight for equality from 1980 to 1990. Glasgow Women’s Library came into being partly in response to the overarching masculine […]

Teenage Kicks

Glasgow Women's Library 23 Landressy Street, Glasgow

Meg can’t wait to leave home. Cynthia misses her family back in the Caribbean. Pamela is pregnant and her mum wants the baby adopted. Andrea fancies girls.Life in 1960s Britain […]