Feminist Book Club Glasgow

We are an informal book club with a focus on feminist authors and books. Future reads are set by the group. You should be able to get a copy via Glasgow Libraries.

• BOOK CHAT. Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg. Tuesday 13th May at 6.30pm in the Mitchell Library's Let's Talk Space on the ground floor. https://www.lesliefeinberg.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Stone-Butch-Blues-by-Leslie-Feinberg.pdf

• Collage Poetry and Art creative evening. Tuesday 10th June from 6pm this time. We'll be recycling newspapers, magazines etc to create some art and poetry with the guidance of our collage artist Emma. All materials provided but please feel free to bring any clippings etc with you.

• AUTHOR TALK. Others Like Me by Nicole Louie. Tuesday 17th June. Join author Nicole Louie and Stef McCartney from the Feminist Book Club in Glasgow for a conversation about the lives of women without children, a Q&A with the audience, and a book signing session. In the Glasgow Room in the Mitchell Library. 6.30pm.

• BOOK CHAT. Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Zimmerer. Tuesday 15th July at 6.30pm in the Mitchell Library's Let's Talk Space on the ground floor.

Sometimes a little trip to the pub after for anyone wishing to join.

For More info that might help, please read the 'About' section on our website here

Previous reads include Beloved by Toni Morrison, Being Emily by Anne Donnovan, Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez, Testaments by Margaret Atwood, Becoming by Michelle Obama, The Good Immigrant by Nikesh Shukla, My Autobiography of Carson McCullers: A Memoir by Jenn Shapland, Girl, Woman, Other by Bernadine Evaristo, Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay, The Burning by Laura Bates, Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution by Mona Eltahawy, Watermelon by Marian Keyes, A Decolonial Feminism by Françoise Vergès, Breasts and Eggs by Mieko Kawakami, Black on Both Sides: A Racial history of Trans Identity by C Riley Snorton , All About Love by bell hooks and Against The Loveless World by Susan Abulhawa and I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman, Feminist City by Leslie Kern, Mask Off-Masculinity Redefined by JJ Bola, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark, You Made A Fool of Death with Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi, Bunny by Mona Awad, Our Women on the Ground: Arab Women reporting from the Arab World edited by Zahra Hankir, Scotland Her Story edited by Rosemary Goring, Love in the Big City by Sang Young Park and Translated by Anton Hur, Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-Joo and translated by Jamie Chang, Gathering edited by Durre Shahwar and Nasia Sarwar-Skuse,What You Are Looking For Is in the Library by Michiko Aoyama.

Feel free to contact us with any questions via feministbookclubglasgow@gmail.com or on Instagram @Feministbookclubglasgow

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