Strand: Addressing Inequalities

She Settles in the Shields

Published by Glasgow Women’s Library in 2011, She Settles in the Shields is a powerful oral history collection that honours the lives and stories of migrant women who made their homes in Pollokshields, Glasgow.

Addressing Inequalities

Addressing inequalities is core to the history and culture of Glasgow Women’s Library. It is expressed in our approaches to working, and our commitment to improving access to our spaces and resources.

Mixing The Colours

Mixing The Colours: The Story So Far Mixing The Colours Conference 2015 Mixing The Colours Podcasts Mixing The Colours Film Mixing The Colours Publication Mixing The Colours Resource Mixing The Colours: […]

Mixing The Colours Film

Mixing the Colours Mixing The Colours: The Story So Far Mixing The Colours Conference 2015 Mixing The Colours Podcasts Mixing The Colours Publication Mixing The Colours Resource The Mixing The Colours film […]

No-one who harms me will go unpunished. I am a woman.

On Wednesday 8th March 2017, the In Her Shoes project launched our groundbreaking new performance to challenge hate crime against women at City of Glasgow College. A second performance followed at […]

In Her Shoes – Women and Hate Crime Resources

  The resources listed below discuss women’s experiences of targeted hostility based on specific characteristics and identities, and their responses to this through self-defence and collective action. These resources are […]

Mixing The Colours Resource

Mixing The Colours Mixing The Colours: The Story So Far Mixing The Colours Conference 2015 Mixing The Colours Podcasts Mixing The Colours Film Mixing The Colours Publication Our permanent public reference […]

Mixing The Colours: women speaking about sectarianism

Mixing The Colours: women speaking about sectarianism Between July 2013 and March 2016 our ‘Mixing The Colours: women speaking about sectarianism’ project engaged over 550 participants in discussions and creative […]

Who Makes Museums? We Make Museums

Whose art ends up in museums? And whose doesn’t? What artwork is in GWL’s Museum and what is missing?

Speaking Out

The Speaking Out Publication40 Years of Women’s Aid in Scotland Scottish Women’s Aid Archive History SafeA Toolkit for Preserving the History of Women’s Aid in Scotland The Speaking Out Learning […]

Collect:if

Collect:if is a fabulous new network bringing together Women of Colour (WoC) who are established figures in the arts, culture and creative industries in Scotland and those who are developing their practice.

We aim to explore the challenges affecting Black and Minority Ethnic women in the Arts and create opportunities for them to progress in their field of work. Furthermore, we aim to inform and assist mainstream arts organisations in meeting the EDI (Equality, Diversity and Inclusion) standards within their service provision.

Mixing The Colours Publication

Mixing the Colours Mixing The Colours: The Story So Far Mixing The Colours Conference 2015 Mixing The Colours Podcasts Mixing The Colours Film Mixing The Colours Resource In March 2015 we […]

Readers of Colour

Readers of Colour is a thriving community of women and non-binary readers of colour who come together to read writing by women and non-binary writers of colour!

Responders of Colour

Responders of Colour is a creative project that looks at items from the GWL archive from the perspective of women and non-binary people of colour.

Equality in Progress: Research from a grassroots museum

GWL is a values-led feminist museum that rethinks the traditions of museum practice; and stands as a model of good practice with an innovative and proactive approach to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI).

The Equality in Progress project aims to support the wider museum sector to gain a better understanding of ‘equality’ as a theory, with the intention of widening access, representation and inclusion for people with Protected Characteristics.

This report responds to the need for analysis of the complex systems of intersectional inequality in museums. As a project we deconstructed the power relationships between museums and people, exposing the barriers to information, learning and resources; unpacking the methods that have established, and maintain, inequality of access to museums.

In Her Shoes – Hearing Women’s Experiences of Hate Crime

  In April 2016, Glasgow Women’s Library was awarded Scottish Government funding to deliver our In Her Shoes project. The aim of In Her Shoes was to produce innovative and […]

Decoding Inequality

Our Decoding Inequality project uses feminist object interpretation to generate meaningful discussion on issues of women’s structural inequality with our visitors and learners.

Equality in Progress

In GWL’s work with diverse communities over 25 years we have learnt about the spectrum of ways that structural, institutional and attitudinal inequalities impact women. GWL grew from a grassroots project into a Recognised Collection of National Significance in the Museum sector with inclusion, representation and access rooted in our values at the core of the organisation.

This project will produce a blueprint for equalities-led transformation in the museum sector by making explicit GWL’s participation framework, engaging ‘community critics’ and conducting large-scale research on equality, diversity and inclusion in Scottish Museums.

Decoding Inequality: Online Exhibition

The objects in this exhibition have been chosen from the museum and archive collections of Glasgow Women’s Library. They were selected by staff and volunteers to reflect the nature of […]

Moving Mountains: Visioning Intersectional Feminist Leadership

Feminist Leadership is an under-researched area. In 2018/2019 GWL’s co-founder and Creative Development Manager Adele Patrick took time out to reflect, learn and develop new feminist intersectional approaches supported by Clore Leadership.

Decoding Inequality Sector Report 2019

The Decoding Inequality project turns the analytical attention of our Equality in Progress project directly to GWL’s collections and interpretation. The Equality in Progress project has used theories of intersectional feminism to interrogate museums as institutions, with the aim of supporting practitioners to develop much better awareness of systems of inequality. The Decoding Inequality project builds on this work by conducting a process of feminist interpretation or ‘decoding’ of our collection.

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.