Gaby Macbeth
@gmacbeth.bsky.social
She/her
✨️ Volunteer Coordinator at Glasgow Women's Library.
⛰️ Mountain Guide and Director at Skylark Guiding Ltd.
❤️ Runner, reader, feminist, and believer in the idea that many small things done by many small people can change the world for the better.
✨️ Volunteer Coordinator at Glasgow Women's Library.
⛰️ Mountain Guide and Director at Skylark Guiding Ltd.
❤️ Runner, reader, feminist, and believer in the idea that many small things done by many small people can change the world for the better.
Reposted by Gaby Macbeth
Herland 2025: A Celebration of Women in Music
Fri 24 Oct, 7–10.30pm
Glasgow Women’s Library
Featuring R.Aggs, Katrina Lee, and more, plus film, spoken word, food and friendship - a bold, joyful night celebrating women’s musical expression.
Book now: womenslibrary.org.uk/event/herlan...
All welcome
Fri 24 Oct, 7–10.30pm
Glasgow Women’s Library
Featuring R.Aggs, Katrina Lee, and more, plus film, spoken word, food and friendship - a bold, joyful night celebrating women’s musical expression.
Book now: womenslibrary.org.uk/event/herlan...
All welcome
October 13, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Herland 2025: A Celebration of Women in Music
Fri 24 Oct, 7–10.30pm
Glasgow Women’s Library
Featuring R.Aggs, Katrina Lee, and more, plus film, spoken word, food and friendship - a bold, joyful night celebrating women’s musical expression.
Book now: womenslibrary.org.uk/event/herlan...
All welcome
Fri 24 Oct, 7–10.30pm
Glasgow Women’s Library
Featuring R.Aggs, Katrina Lee, and more, plus film, spoken word, food and friendship - a bold, joyful night celebrating women’s musical expression.
Book now: womenslibrary.org.uk/event/herlan...
All welcome
Reposted by Gaby Macbeth
📢 Calling all volunteer managers, community organisers & inclusion champions!
We’re looking for speakers for the Make Your Mark Volunteer Managers Conference 2026.
✅ Theme: Inclusive volunteering in an unequal world
💷 Paid opportunity
📅 Deadline: 14 Aug
Details: makeyourmark.scot/for-organisa...
We’re looking for speakers for the Make Your Mark Volunteer Managers Conference 2026.
✅ Theme: Inclusive volunteering in an unequal world
💷 Paid opportunity
📅 Deadline: 14 Aug
Details: makeyourmark.scot/for-organisa...
July 21, 2025 at 7:57 AM
📢 Calling all volunteer managers, community organisers & inclusion champions!
We’re looking for speakers for the Make Your Mark Volunteer Managers Conference 2026.
✅ Theme: Inclusive volunteering in an unequal world
💷 Paid opportunity
📅 Deadline: 14 Aug
Details: makeyourmark.scot/for-organisa...
We’re looking for speakers for the Make Your Mark Volunteer Managers Conference 2026.
✅ Theme: Inclusive volunteering in an unequal world
💷 Paid opportunity
📅 Deadline: 14 Aug
Details: makeyourmark.scot/for-organisa...
The first of two poetry writing workshops is this Friday, 12pm to 2pm, online (on Zoom) with the talented Giovanna McKenna. Book here: womenslibrary.org.uk/2025/05/26/o...
June 11, 2025 at 1:48 PM
The first of two poetry writing workshops is this Friday, 12pm to 2pm, online (on Zoom) with the talented Giovanna McKenna. Book here: womenslibrary.org.uk/2025/05/26/o...
Reposted by Gaby Macbeth
My husband has taught human reproduction and development to the Cambridge medics for over three decades. When people start banging on about "only two biological sexes" he starts with "which sex: genetic, hormonal, or gonadal"?
Biological sex is not binary. www.scientificamerican.com/article/sex-...
Biological sex is not binary. www.scientificamerican.com/article/sex-...
Sex Redefined: The Idea of 2 Sexes Is Overly Simplistic
Biologists now think there is a larger spectrum than just binary female and male
www.scientificamerican.com
April 16, 2025 at 12:03 PM
My husband has taught human reproduction and development to the Cambridge medics for over three decades. When people start banging on about "only two biological sexes" he starts with "which sex: genetic, hormonal, or gonadal"?
Biological sex is not binary. www.scientificamerican.com/article/sex-...
Biological sex is not binary. www.scientificamerican.com/article/sex-...
Jenny has volunteered with @womenslibrary.bsky.social archive since 2023. She's catalogued the housing activist Cathy McCormack's collection, and prepared audio-visual material about GWL's history for digitisation.
Jenny reveals what's involved in these posts: womenslibrary.org.uk/author/jennyp/
Jenny reveals what's involved in these posts: womenslibrary.org.uk/author/jennyp/
Author: Jenny | Glasgow Women's Library
womenslibrary.org.uk
April 5, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Jenny has volunteered with @womenslibrary.bsky.social archive since 2023. She's catalogued the housing activist Cathy McCormack's collection, and prepared audio-visual material about GWL's history for digitisation.
Jenny reveals what's involved in these posts: womenslibrary.org.uk/author/jennyp/
Jenny reveals what's involved in these posts: womenslibrary.org.uk/author/jennyp/
Lots of seriously interesting blogs from @womenslibrary.bsky.social volunteers:
Jenny on cataloguing the Easterhouse based housing activist Cathy McCormack's collection; Sarah on the Victorian journalist and feminist Frances Power Cobbe;
Jenny on cataloguing the Easterhouse based housing activist Cathy McCormack's collection; Sarah on the Victorian journalist and feminist Frances Power Cobbe;
March 27, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Lots of seriously interesting blogs from @womenslibrary.bsky.social volunteers:
Jenny on cataloguing the Easterhouse based housing activist Cathy McCormack's collection; Sarah on the Victorian journalist and feminist Frances Power Cobbe;
Jenny on cataloguing the Easterhouse based housing activist Cathy McCormack's collection; Sarah on the Victorian journalist and feminist Frances Power Cobbe;
What are staff and volunteers @womenslibrary.bsky.social reading?
Our volunteer Aileen has pulled together the latest recommendations: womenslibrary.org.uk/2025/02/20/b...
Our volunteer Aileen has pulled together the latest recommendations: womenslibrary.org.uk/2025/02/20/b...
Book Picnic February 2025 | Glasgow Women's Library
Every month, GWL team members and volunteers share what we’ve read at our Book Picnic. Here’s what we’ve been reading recently.
womenslibrary.org.uk
February 20, 2025 at 2:57 PM
What are staff and volunteers @womenslibrary.bsky.social reading?
Our volunteer Aileen has pulled together the latest recommendations: womenslibrary.org.uk/2025/02/20/b...
Our volunteer Aileen has pulled together the latest recommendations: womenslibrary.org.uk/2025/02/20/b...
Reposted by Gaby Macbeth
'Valentine’s Day: Love and Loathing in Postcards of the Suffrage Age'.
A nod to my PhD research for Valentine's Day in this Blog post for @womenslibrary.bsky.social
womenslibrary.org.uk/2025/02/14/v...
A nod to my PhD research for Valentine's Day in this Blog post for @womenslibrary.bsky.social
womenslibrary.org.uk/2025/02/14/v...
Valentine’s Day: Love and Loathing in Postcards of the Suffrage Age | Glasgow Women's Library
My PhD research focusses on several themes that emerge in ‘comic’ anti-suffrage / anti-women postcards produced by private companies between 1900 and 1930, and also examines the handwritten messages…
womenslibrary.org.uk
February 14, 2025 at 2:00 PM
'Valentine’s Day: Love and Loathing in Postcards of the Suffrage Age'.
A nod to my PhD research for Valentine's Day in this Blog post for @womenslibrary.bsky.social
womenslibrary.org.uk/2025/02/14/v...
A nod to my PhD research for Valentine's Day in this Blog post for @womenslibrary.bsky.social
womenslibrary.org.uk/2025/02/14/v...
. @womenslibrary.bsky.social brilliant volunteer Sarah's great great great great aunt was a prominent Victorian feminist: Frances Power Cobbe. Never heard of her either? In this first blog Sarah introduces this remarkable woman: womenslibrary.org.uk/2025/02/07/f...
Frances Power Cobbe – The Forgotten Victorian Feminist | Glasgow Women's Library
If you visit Parliament Square in London, you will find a statue of leading suffragist Millicent Fawcett. Take a closer look at the base of this statue and you will find the names and small images of…
womenslibrary.org.uk
February 8, 2025 at 10:01 AM
. @womenslibrary.bsky.social brilliant volunteer Sarah's great great great great aunt was a prominent Victorian feminist: Frances Power Cobbe. Never heard of her either? In this first blog Sarah introduces this remarkable woman: womenslibrary.org.uk/2025/02/07/f...