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Rookie Yearbook 2 &3 edited by Tavi Gevinson
It is an increasingly difficult time for teenage girls in the western world today. Sexualised, judged and more, young women are having to deal with different challenges to what their mother’s and...
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“I feel part of something.” Opportunities to participate in Mixing The Colours
Mixing The Colours Conference Illustration “Group together to inspire change.” MtC participant 2014 A significant aspect of our work on Mixing The Colours is collective action. Public and private...
View ArticleGenderqueer:Notes From Beyond The Sexual Binary by Joan Nestle,Clare Howell...
Genderqueer is a fantastic anthology of queer and lgbt reflection on gender and sexuality.It looks back at the stories of those who come from earlier points of the lgbt movement to people in recent...
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“She says it’s important that the stories are told” – a Review of Lucy...
Saoirse is a sheltered child. Living with her mother, father and younger sister Daisy in a tinderbox of past secrets and ever-present tensions, her world is one of fantastic bedtime stories and...
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Pulp Queens: Femmes Fatales and Fragile Frails
In the run up to the Pulp Queens workshops on 4th August and the exhibition of our wonderful pulp fiction collection, we’re going to be posting a few reviews of some of the books in our archive and...
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GWL Volunteer, Mel Bestel Reviews our Mixing the Colours Anthology featuring...
Our published collection Mixing the Colours: women speaking about sectarianism has been featured on The Best of Scottish Books website who focus on the standout story In These Transgressive Spaces by...
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Live performances from the Mixing The Colours Anthology featured on...
We are very proud and pleased to have our Mixing The Colours Anthology featured on BooksFromScotland ‘Best Of Scottish Books’! Read reviews of the book by Glasgow Women’s Library volunteers Claire L....
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Pulp Queens: Spring Fire by Vin Packer – Review
“A story once told in whispers now frankly, honestly written,” says the front cover blurb. Spring Fire, published in 1952, was the first paperback pulp novel to feature a lesbian protagonist. Vin...
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Pulp Queens: An Interview with GWL’s Pulp Queen In Residence
Q&A with Donna Moore, Pulp Queen in residence at GWL – by Morgan Fraser Morgan: What was the first pulp fiction you ever read? Donna: That was so long ago I really can’t remember! I would have been...
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Pulp Queens: Blaft Anthology of Tamil Pulp Fiction
Something slightly different today, from our pulp fiction collection. The Blaft Anthology of Tamil Pulp Fiction is a 2008 collection of 19 pulp fiction stories by 10 Tamil writers, including two women...
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Fish+Chocolate by Kate Brown.
Fish+Chocolate is a graphic novel by Kate Brown which is published by Self Made Hero comics.It is a collection of three graphic stories which explore the anxiety, fear and grief that are part and...
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Saga by Brian K.Vaughan and Fiona Staples.
As young person of mixed ethnic background with a biracial Turkish mother and a Scottish father my origin and background are something I care deeply about. I am currently writing a novel based on my...
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Pulp Queens: In A Lonely Place by Dorothy B Hughes – Review
Dorothy B Hughes deserves to be far better known than she is. When people talk about the American hardboiled tradition of crime novels, they think of writers like Raymond Chandler, James M Cain and...
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Review the Mixing The Colours publication and receive a free copy!
Do you love reading? Are you excited about books? Perfect! We are looking for women to review our Mixing The Colours: women speaking about sectarianism publication. We need you to share your thoughts...
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Pulp Queens: Judging ‘Women’s Barracks’ by its cover
A book’s cover acts as the first touchpoint we have with the story and its meaning, drawing us in and providing us with a first impression which either makes or breaks our choice in buying/reading....
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Reflecting on Mixing The Colours
Gathering Feedback As we reach the midway point of this project year it seems like a natural time to reflect on how we’re engaging with people in the discussion on sectarianism. We continue to gather...
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A Day in The Life of A Victorian Woman Factory Worker
Anne Marie Shields holds up a copy of 21 Revolutions and The Woman Worker which inspired her blog post. Lassie Wi’ a Yella Coatie by Anne Donovan is a short story in Glasgow Women’s Library’s 21...
View ArticleBooks I Love
Here is a selection of books recommended by Sarah, who is doing a week long work placement with us: The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold Set in the seventies, 14 year old Susie Salmon is raped then...
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Theresa Breslin’s Divided City: Mixing the Colours
Glasgow Women’s Library volunteer Anabel Marsh shares her reflections on Divided City by Theresa Breslin – part of the Mixing the Colours collection. – – – – – – Divided City by Theresa Breslin It’s...
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Dotter of her father’s eyes
Dotter of her father’s eyes by Mary M Talbot and Bryan Talbot James Joyce is a familiar name but how many people know about his daughter, Lucia? This graphic novel tells Lucia’s story and the author’s,...
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