What should have been a quick blog post, rapidly grew to four posts when Becky started writing about feminism and knitting. This is the audio version of those posts, narrated by her, to hopefully make a long piece of writing a little more accessible. Brody, Jane E. ‘Homosexuality: Parents Aren’t Always to Blame’. The New York Times, 10 Feb. 1971. N…

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 lesbian activism, the evolution of language in relation to the LGBTQ+ community, the Lesbian Archive and other aspects of GWL’s work which have been significant…

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. In this episode we find out more about how ecofeminism and care …

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. In this episode, we look at what “access” and “accessibility” me…

The poetry slam at FLUP feels like the heart of the festival. In this final episode of Glasgow Women’s Library and FLUP the podcast, Tomiwa Folorunso finds sits down with one of the founders of FLUP, Julio Ludemir, and some of the poetry slammers to find out more about this special event. From Rio de Janeiro they discuss community, Blackness and th…

In this second episode of Glasgow Women’s Library and FLUP the podcast, Tomiwa Folorunso sits down with Funmilola Fagbamila, the Nigerian-American activist, playwright, author and scholar, one of the original organisers of the Black Lives Matter Movement. From Rio de Janeiro they discuss activism off and online, and protecting and looking after you…

This podcast, looking at nature writing, is part of Open the Door 2020. The panelists are Christina Riley, Maria Sledmere and Rebecca Jones and the episode was produced by Jennifer Wood. Scroll down to the bottom of this post to listen. You can download a transcript of the panel discussion here: Download Nature Writing Panel Transcript A largeprint…

In this first episode of Glasgow Women’s Library and FLUP the podcast, Tomiwa Folorunso sits down with author, curator and lecturer Dr. Natasha A. Kelly. From Rio de Janeiro they discuss Natasha’s activism, her work as an academic, artist and what it is like to exist in this world with a black body. If you’d like to read a transcript of this podcas…

GWL Digital Reads is our online book group; a space for people from around the world to take part in discussions around books written by women and to engage with GWL even if they can’t make it through our doors. We read a new book from a diverse selection of genres every two months and discuss it in our GWL Digital Book Group on Facebook. Our July …

Unwrapping women’s history across Scotland on Travelling Gallery and GWL tour Since August this year Glasgow Women’s Library has been touring Scotland with Lauren Printy Currie’s Travelling Gallery exhibition “Her body remembered a night-blooming cereus, sweated industry and salt (what came near)”. The tour has been a unique chance to raise awarene…

On Friday 9th June this year, we had a rousing and raucous time at our 2017 All Women Poetry Slam hosted by Carly Brown at the Out of the Blue Café in Edinburgh. For those of you who missed the Slam, we are delighted to feature podcast recordings of some of the poems we heard on the night. As a spoken word artist, Lesley Traynor won the 2017 Four A…

On Friday 9th June this year, we had a rousing and raucous time at our 2017 All Women Poetry Slam hosted by Carly Brown at the Out of the Blue Café in Edinburgh. For those of you who missed the Slam, we are delighted to feature podcast recordings of some of the poems we heard on the night. Jo Gilbert, the winner of the 2017 Slam, is a new writer an…

On Thursday 23rd June 2016, we were proud and very excited to host the All Women Poetry Slam in partnership with the Harpies, Fechters and Quines Festival 2016 at the Out of the Blue Cafe in Edinburgh. The slam received a fantastic response and was enormously popular; a chance for women of all ages and levels of experience to perform and compete fo…

On Thursday 23rd June 2016, we were proud and very excited to host the All Women Poetry Slam in partnership with the Harpies, Fechters and Quines Festival 2016 at the Out of the Blue Cafe in Edinburgh. The slam received a fantastic response and was enormously popular; a chance for women of all ages and levels of experience to perform and compete fo…

On Thursday 23rd June 2016, we were proud and very excited to host the All Women Poetry Slam in partnership with the Harpies, Fechters and Quines Festival 2016 at the Out of the Blue Cafe in Edinburgh. The slam received a fantastic response and was enormously popular; a chance for women of all ages and levels of experience to perform and compete fo…

The seventeenth episode in the Mixing The Colours Podcast series. The podcasts in the Mixing the Colours Podcast collection offer a selection of writing and performances created by some of the women who have worked with the project in workshops and events, and have shared their work with us for the purposes of highlighting the need for the inclusio…

The sixteenth episode in the Mixing The Colours Podcast series. The podcasts in the Mixing the Colours Podcast collection offer a selection of writing and performances created by some of the women who have worked with the project in workshops and events, and have shared their work with us for the purposes of highlighting the need for the inclusion …

The fifteenth episode in the Mixing The Colours Podcast series. The podcasts in the Mixing the Colours Podcast collection offer a selection of writing and performances created by some of the women who have worked with the project in workshops and events, and have shared their work with us for the purposes of highlighting the need for the inclusion …

The fourteenth episode in the Mixing The Colours Podcast series. The podcasts in the Mixing the Colours Podcast collection offer a selection of writing and performances created by some of the women who have worked with the project in workshops and events, and have shared their work with us for the purposes of highlighting the need for the inclusion…

The thirteenth episode in the Mixing The Colours Podcast series. The podcasts in the Mixing the Colours Podcast collection offer a selection of writing and performances created by some of the women who have worked with the project in workshops and events, and have shared their work with us for the purposes of highlighting the need for the inclusion…

The twelfth episode in the Mixing The Colours Podcast series. The podcasts in the Mixing the Colours Podcast collection offer a selection of writing and performances created by some of the women who have worked with the project in workshops and events, and have shared their work with us for the purposes of highlighting the need for the inclusion an…

The tenth episode in the Mixing The Colours Podcast series. The podcasts in the Mixing the Colours Podcast collection offer a selection of writing and performances created by some of the women who have worked with the project in workshops and events, and have shared their work with us for the purposes of highlighting the need for the inclusion and …

The ninth episode in the Mixing The Colours Podcast series. The podcasts in the Mixing the Colours Podcast collection offer a selection of writing and performances created by some of the women who have worked with the project in workshops and events, and have shared their work with us for the purposes of highlighting the need for the inclusion and …

The eighth episode in the Mixing The Colours Podcast series. The podcasts in the Mixing the Colours Podcast collection offer a selection of writing and performances created by some of the women who have worked with the project in workshops and events, and have shared their work with us for the purposes of highlighting the need for the inclusion and…

The seventh episode in the Mixing The Colours Podcast series. The podcasts in the Mixing the Colours Podcast collection offer a selection of writing and performances created by some of the women who have worked with the project in workshops and events, and have shared their work with us for the purposes of highlighting the need for the inclusion an…

The sixth episode in the Mixing The Colours Podcast series. The podcasts in the Mixing the Colours Podcast collection offer a selection of writing and performances created by some of the women who have worked with the project in workshops and events, and have shared their work with us for the purposes of highlighting the need for the inclusion and …

The fifth episode in the Mixing The Colours Podcast series. The podcasts in the Mixing the Colours Podcast collection offer a selection of writing and performances created by some of the women who have worked with the project in workshops and events, and have shared their work with us for the purposes of highlighting the need for the inclusion and …

This is the sixth in a series of podcasts that share some of the discussion from a group ‘What women talk about when they talk about sex’ that took place at Glasgow Women’s Library during spring and Summer 2015 as part of our Sex in The Women’s Library Season supported by the Wellcome Trust. The group look at national sex survey findings that show …

This is the fifth in a series of podcasts that share some of the discussion from a group ‘What women talk about when they talk about sex’ that took place at Glasgow Women’s Library during spring and Summer 2015 as part of our Sex in The Women’s Library Season supported by the Wellcome Trust. In this session that group takes the starting point ‘Hair…

This is the fourth in a series of podcasts that share some of the discussion from a group ‘What women talk about when they talk about sex’ that took place at Glasgow Women’s Library during Spring and Summer 2015 as part of our Sex in The Women’s Library Season supported by the Wellcome Trust. The group discusses their bodies, body dysmorphia and wh…

This is the third in a series of podcasts that share some of the discussion from a group ‘What women talk about when they talk about sex’ that took place at Glasgow Women’s Library during spring and Summer 2015 as part of our Sex in The Women’s Library Season supported by the Wellcome Trust. In this discussion session the group share their differin…

This is the second in a series of podcasts that share some of the discussion from a group ‘What women talk about when they talk about sex’ that took place at Glasgow Women’s Library during spring and Summer 2015 as part of our Sex in The Women’s Library Season supported by the Wellcome Trust. In this session the group talk extensively about our shi…

This is the first in a series of podcasts that share some of the discussion from a group ‘What women talk about when they talk about sex’ that took place at Glasgow Women’s Library during spring and summer 2015 as part of our Sex in The Women’s Library Season supported by the Wellcome Trust. The topics discussed in this first session include indivi…

The Glasgow Women’s Library Young Critics are a group of young women who are interested in creating responses to arts and cultural events at the library, across Glasgow and beyond. With the support of independent radio journalist Liz Leonard, they give their unique perspective on the March of Women. Re-live this very special day through their eyes …

The fourth episode in the Mixing The Colours Podcast series. The podcasts in the Mixing the Colours Podcast collection offer a selection of writing and performances created by some of the women who have worked with the project in workshops and events, and have shared their work with us for the purposes of highlighting the need for the inclusion and…

The third episode in the Mixing The Colours Podcast series. The podcasts in the Mixing the Colours Podcast collection offer a selection of writing and performances created by some of the women who have worked with the project in workshops and events, and have shared their work with us for the purposes of highlighting the need for the inclusion and …

The second episode in the Mixing The Colours Podcast series. The podcasts in the Mixing the Colours Podcast collection offer a selection of writing and performances created by some of the women who have worked with the project in workshops and events, and have shared their work with us for the purposes of highlighting the need for the inclusion and…

The first episode in the Mixing The Colours Podcast series. The podcasts in the Mixing the Colours Podcast collection offer a selection of writing and performances created by some of the women who have worked with the project in workshops and events, and have shared their work with us for the purposes of highlighting the need for the inclusion and …

Hear the winning Dragon’s Pen entries from 2013 in this free downloadable podcast. Winning Poem: The Magician by Lynn Valentine Winning Story: Walking Out by Lucy Lloyd Read by Nicola Burkhill and introduced by Laura Dolan. Why not be bold and submit your stories and poems to our annual Dragon’s Pen writing competition. This year the theme is Mixin…

In the nineteenth of our Glasgow Women’s Library podcasts Jackie Kay reads her 21 Revolutions pieces, Undercoat, Model House and Ingrid McClements’ Papers, and talks about her inspiration behind the work. To mark the Library’s 21st anniversary in 2012, and with the support of funding from Creative Scotland and Museums Galleries Scotland, GWL commis…

In the eighteenth of our Glasgow Women’s Library podcasts Heather Middleton talks about her inspiration behind her 21 Revolutions piece, Jigsaw of Doom. Click on the image to view Heather’s comic strip, Jigsaw of Doom. To mark the Library’s 21st anniversary in 2012, and with the support of funding from Creative Scotland and Museums Galleries Scotla…

In the seventeenth of our Glasgow Women’s Library podcasts A L Kennedy reads her 21 Revolutions piece, Stitches and talks about her inspiration behind the work. We’re excited to now be raising funds via Kickstarter to publish the fantastic 21 Revolutions publication, bringing together the work of 21 world renowned women artists and 21 of Scotland’s…

In the sixteenth of our Glasgow Women’s Library podcasts Jen Hadfield reads her 21 Revolutions piece, Infestation – A Memoir of Pests and talks about her inspiration behind the work. To mark the Library’s 21st anniversary in 2012, and with the support of funding from Creative Scotland and Museums Galleries Scotland, GWL commissioned 21 women writer…

In the fifteenth of our Glasgow Women’s Library podcasts Anne Donovan reads her 21 Revolutions piece, Lassie wi a Yella Coatie, and talks about her inspiration behind the work. To mark the Library’s 21st anniversary in 2012, and with the support of funding from Creative Scotland and Museums Galleries Scotland, GWL commissioned 21 women writers and …

In the fourteenth of our Glasgow Women’s Library podcasts Vicki Feaver reads her 21 Revolutions piece, Time-Piece, and talks about her inspiration behind the work. To mark the Library’s 21st anniversary in 2012, and with the support of funding from Creative Scotland and Museums Galleries Scotland, GWL commissioned 21 women writers and 21 women arti…

In the thirteenth of our Glasgow Women’s Library podcasts, and to mark our birthday on 21st September 2013 Denise Mina reads her 21 Revolutions piece, Ernest Hemingway’s Third Wife, and talks about her inspiration behind the work. To mark the Library’s 21st anniversary in 2012, and with the support of funding from Creative Scotland and Museums Gall…

In the twelfth of our new Glasgow Women’s Library podcasts, Zoe Strachan and Louise Welsh read a joint collaboration, Anyone Who Had A Heart and they talk about the inspiration behind the work. To mark the Library’s 21st anniversary, and with the support of funding from Creative Scotland and Museums Galleries Scotland, GWL commissioned 21 women wri…

In the eleventh of our new Glasgow Women’s Library podcasts, Donna Moore reads her work, The Mouse’s Umbrella and talks about the inspiration behind the work. 21 Revolutions Podcast #11: Donna Moore 21 Revolutions: Two Decades of Changing Minds at GWL To mark the Library’s 21st anniversary, and with the support of funding from Creative Scotland and…

In the tenth of our new Glasgow Women’s Library podcasts, Karen Campbell reads her work, The Colour of Queens and talks about the inspiration behind the work. This release links with Refugee Week Scotland 2013 where Karen Campbell read from her newest work, This is Where I Am. 21 Revolutions Podcast #10: Karen Campbell 21 Revolutions: Two Decades o…

In the ninth of our new Glasgow Women’s Library podcasts, Zoe Wicomb reads her work, Writing Lesson and talks about the inspiration behind the work. 21 Revolutions Podcast #9: Zoe Wicomb 21 Revolutions: Two Decades of Changing Minds at GWL To mark the Library’s 21st anniversary, and with the support of funding from Creative Scotland and Museums Gal…