User:GrayMitchell

Hi, I'm Lesley and I hate writing about myself.

This is my main account, which I use for editing. I also have a separate account, Lesley Mitchell (training account), which I use for training purposes.

Personal stuff
I have a wide ranging background across science (particularly chemistry), computing (particularly linux and free software), the humanities (particularly philosophy), and the social sciences (particularly sociology), but most things interest me.

I am passionate about gender, sexuality and racial issues and representation, feminism and intersectionality, and the amplification of marginalised voices and recovery of hidden and suppressed histories. I mainly work on pages about women and women's organisations both social and political, with a particular emphasis on Glasgow, Scotland, as that's where I'm currently based. I would also like to improve representation of LGBTQIA+ and BIPOC persons in the city/region.

In my copious free time, I also enjoy travel, learning languages, cooking, photography, running and hitting my friends (when suitable attired) with metal sticks.

You can find my images on the Commons, at Flickr and on Instagram.

Groups I'm involved with

 * GLAM/Protests and Suffragettes

Articles I've created

 * Red Skirts on Clydeside - a film by the Sheffield Film Cooperative, exploring women's political participation in the 1915 Rent Strikes.
 * Margaret Menzies Campbell (née Shirlaw) - Scottish surgeon; niece of Marion Gilchrist; extensive writer of medical and dental history (with her husband John Menzies Campbell, which I've updated to be correct)

Articles I want to create

 * Emily Thomson (doctor) - Scottish doctor; practised together with Alice Moorhead (sister of Ethel Moorhead, the suffragette); first female GPs in Dundee
 * Nora Wattie - Scottish doctor; researcher into venereal diseases; principal medical officer (maternity and child welfare) for Glasgow, for 30 years (1934 - 1964); has links to Mary Barbour's work in the same area (e.g. via Glasgow Women's Welfare and Advisory Clinic)
 * Glasgow Women's Private Hospital aka Redlands Hospital for Women - Margaret Menzies Campbell worked here and wrote a history of the place (two copies at Mitchell Library, Glasgow; one copy University of Dundee archive)
 * Monique Agazarian aviatrix and writer; born 17 April 1920; married 1949 Ray Rendall (died 1981; three daughters; marriage dissolved 1973); died London 3 March 1993 (https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-monique-agazarian-1499214.html) (Brothers: Noel Agazarian, Jack Agazarian and Levon Agazarian; Sister-in-law: Francine Agazarian)

Articles I want to improve

 * Elspeth King
 * Agnes Dollan
 * Patrick Dollan

Userboxes
Userboxes make a good substitute for actually writing about yourself. Here's a wall of the things. :-)