In this episode, your host and DIVA Magazine columnist Ali Hendry talks to D K Green – a Holistic psychotherapist; specialising in GSRD communities (Gender, Sex, & Relationship Diversity). 

Together they discuss 

•      Continuing Professional Development or CPD
•      Holistic approaches to work and life
• Relationship Diversity

Have you heard our top-rated ep? TheLWordGenQ with Rachel Shelley

Or listened to our 30 x 30 micro-casts? Celebrating 30 years of DIVA magazine and its community throughout the month of April 2024.

Want to hear more of all things LGBTQIA? Grab your copy of DIVA's latest issue here.

Edited and produced by Rachel Shelley with love and support from #TeamDIVA

podDIVA: Queers for your Ears

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All hail The Road Less Travelled!

In this passionate discussion, DIVA Deputy Editor Nic Crosara chats to Horse about

• touring
• staying visible
• her passion for creating personal, heart felt music.

Have you heard our top-rated ep? TheLWordGenQ with Rachel Shelley

Or listened to our 30 x 30 micro-casts? Celebrating 30 years of DIVA magazine and its community throughout the month of April 2024.

Want to hear more of all things LGBTQIA? Grab your copy of DIVA's latest issue here.

Edited and produced by Rachel Shelley with love and support from #TeamDIVA

podDIVA: Queers for your Ears

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Be prepared to laugh along with these three old friends, to be inspired, to be deeply moved and perhaps, like me, to shed a tear too.

Hear all about:

• dealing with cancer and writing their book
• that first date and the two decades of lesbian love that have followed
• their challenges, grief and recovery

Adele and Kate’s book is called Personal Best: From Rock Bottom to the Top of the World. And it is truly awesome.  And just FYI – the "Audrey" that these three superstar women refer to is Adele’s stoma bag.  

The DIVA Debrief - one gorgeous glossy in your ear.

Have you heard our top-rated ep? TheLWordGenQ with Rachel Shelley

Or listened to our 30 x 30 micro-casts? Celebrating 30 years of DIVA magazine and its community throughout the month of April 2024.

Want to hear more of all things LGBTQIA? Grab your copy of DIVA's latest issue here.

Edited and produced by Rachel Shelley with love and support from #TeamDIVA

podDIVA: Queers for your Ears

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Whooo hoooo!

Join The L Word star Rachel Shelley (aka Helena Peabody) and the right royal Roxy Bourdillon, editor supreme of all DIVA-dom, as we turn the pages of this latest Pride-tastic magazine. Both gloriously head-to-toe in their Pride festive colours!

Discussing

• cover star and phenomenal role model Adele Roberts
• the DIVA Awards celebrating 30 years of your favourite LGBTQIA+ magazine
• comedian Jessica Fostekew
• queer speed friend-shipping
• Eleanor Medhurst on lesbian fashion
• Black queer love

Plus an exclusive Beyond Borders feature starring you, the DIVA listener.

Wherever You Are In the World.

This month: Mariella and Jo from The Netherlands, and their spiritual businesses.

Thank you Mariella and Jo!

The DIVA Debrief - one gorgeous glossy in your ear.

Have you heard our top-rated ep? TheLWordGenQ with Rachel Shelley

Or listened to our 30 x 30 micro-casts? Celebrating 30 years of DIVA magazine and its community throughout the month of April 2024.

Want to hear more of all things LGBTQIA? Grab your copy of DIVA's latest issue here.

Edited and produced by Rachel Shelley with love and support from #TeamDIVA

podDIVA: Queers for your Ears

DIVA - the world's leading brand for LGBTQIA plus women and non-binary people

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Jai is a multi-ethnic, queer, disabled DEIJB coach and consultant who leads workshops on Power, Privilege and Prejudice. Jai also hosts the Beyond Boxes podcast exploring labels and identity.

[DEIJB = Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Justice and Belonging]

Together Ali and Jai are unpacking gender expression, focusing on

·       Embracing intersectionality

·       Non-binary dating

·       Dealing with CompHet or Compulsive Heterosexuality

and

·       How to lead with curiosity

Get in touch with Jai:

·       Social media: IG @beyond_boxes 

·       Website: jaibristow.com

Have you heard our top-rated ep? TheLWordGenQ with Rachel Shelley

Or ridden the temporal time train back through 30 glorious years of DIVA magazine, right here on podDIVA?

Want to hear more of all things LGBTQIA? Grab your copy of DIVA's latest issue here.

Edited and produced by Rachel Shelley with love and support from #TeamDIVA

podDIVA: Queers for your Ears

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When Lucia posted a video to YouTube about failing her GCSEs back in 2017, it didn't seem like the obvious route into comedy.

But seven years later, she's racked up nearly half a million followers on YouTube alone, and starred in the likes of Channel 4's Big Boys and Dave's Sneakerhead.

Plus she's written and starred in her very own BBC show.

In this episode, podDIVA's audiogram whizz-kid Ella Gauci chats to the awesome Lucia about

• her latest BBC show Things You Should Have Done
• failing her GCSEs
• ... and Ronnie Mitchell from Eastenders

Have you heard our top-rated ep? TheLWordGenQ with Rachel Shelley

Or ridden the temporal time train back through 30 glorious years of DIVA magazine, right here on podDIVA?

Want to hear more of all things LGBTQIA? Grab your copy of DIVA's latest issue here.

Produced by Rachel Shelley with love and support from #TeamDIVA

Edited by Ella Gauci with additional editing by Rachel Shelley.

podDIVA: Queers for your Ears

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Today is the final stop on the temporal time train, as we take a whistle-stop tour of last year, 2023. Toot toot!

Have you heard our top-rated ep? TheLWordGenQ with Rachel Shelley

Want to hear more of all things LGBTQIA? Grab your copy of DIVA's April issue here.

Edited and produced by Rachel Shelley with additional editing, producing and knock-out audiogram awesomeness by Ella Gauci.

With love and support from TeamDIVA

podDIVA: Queers for your Ears

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We're only moving the dial back a coupla years today, to the very recent past of 2022. Still, buckle up all the same. Here we go...

Have you heard our top-rated ep? TheLWordGenQ with Rachel Shelley

Want to hear more of all things LGBTQIA? Grab your copy of DIVA's April issue here.

Edited and produced by Rachel Shelley with additional editing, producing and knock-out audiogram awesomeness by Ella Gauci.

With love and support from TeamDIVA

podDIVA: Queers for your Ears

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Today it's the turn of the year 2021, only a teeny trip on the time train backwards.

Plus! Because it's Sunday, stay with us a little longer as Rachel Shelley reads one of our favourite DIVA articles from the last seven years.

Have you heard our top-rated ep? TheLWordGenQ with Rachel Shelley

Want to hear more of all things LGBTQIA? Grab your copy of DIVA's April issue here.

Edited and produced by Rachel Shelley with additional editing, producing and knock-out audiogram awesomeness by Ella Gauci.

With love and support from TeamDIVA

podDIVA: Queers for your Ears

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Today we're running back to the very recent past, a short hop, skip and a jump to the year 2020. A year like no other...

Have you heard our top-rated ep? TheLWordGenQ with Rachel Shelley

Want to hear more of all things LGBTQIA? Grab your copy of DIVA's April issue here.

Edited and produced by Rachel Shelley with additional editing, producing and knock-out audiogram awesomeness by Ella Gauci.

With love and support from TeamDIVA

podDIVA: Queers for your Ears

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Today we're rummaging deep into the pockets of DIVA magazine throughout 2019!

Have you heard our top-rated ep? TheLWordGenQ with Rachel Shelley

Want to hear more of all things LGBTQIA? Grab your copy of DIVA's April issue here.

Edited and produced by Rachel Shelley with additional editing, producing and knock-out audiogram awesomeness by Ella Gauci.

With love and support from TeamDIVA

podDIVA: Queers for your Ears

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Known for her previous novel Everybody (Else) Is Perfect and her imminent companion novel The Shutouts, Gabrielle is the former editor in chief of Nylon Media. She also recently led LGBTQ strategy at Netflix.

In this episode, Gabrielle discusses

• the inspirations behind her new novel
• her love for the word "lesbian"
• the current state of the climate crisis.

Have you heard our top-rated ep? TheLWordGenQ with Rachel Shelley

Want to hear more of all things LGBTQIA? Grab your copy of DIVA's latest issue here.

Edited and produced by Rachel Shelley with love and support from #TeamDIVA

podDIVA: Queers for your Ears

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Today we're buckling up and jetting back in time to the year 2017. Hold tight DIVAs!

Have you heard our top-rated ep? TheLWordGenQ with Rachel Shelley

Want to hear more of all things LGBTQIA? Grab your copy of DIVA's April issue here.

Edited and produced by Rachel Shelley with additional editing, producing and knock-out audiogram awesomeness by Ella Gauci.

With love and support from TeamDIVA

podDIVA: Queers for your Ears

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Today we're doing the time warp again, this time to 2016!

Have you heard our top-rated ep? TheLWordGenQ with Rachel Shelley

Want to hear more of all things LGBTQIA? Grab your copy of DIVA's April issue here.

Edited and produced by Rachel Shelley with additional editing, producing and knock-out audiogram awesomeness by Ella Gauci.

With love and support from TeamDIVA

podDIVA: Queers for your Ears

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Today we're celebrating the year of our Kristen, 2015! Whoop whoop!

Have you heard our top-rated ep? TheLWordGenQ with Rachel Shelley

Want to hear more of all things LGBTQIA? Grab your copy of DIVA's April issue here.

Edited and produced by Rachel Shelley with additional editing, producing and knock-out audiogram awesomeness by Ella Gauci.

With love and support from TeamDIVA

podDIVA: Queers for your Ears

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Today we're delving deep into the DIVA archive of the year 2014.

And seeing as it's Sunday, stay with us a little longer because I want to read you one of my favourite articles of the last seven years...

"The actor behind Bette Porter, The L Word's alpha female, talks to her friend Rachel Shelley about her book, L Word nostalgia and her need for privacy."

Have you heard our top-rated ep? TheLWordGenQ with Rachel Shelley

Want to hear more of all things LGBTQIA? Grab your copy of DIVA's April issue here.

Edited and produced by Rachel Shelley with additional editing, producing and knock-out audiogram awesomeness by Ella Gauci.

With love and support from TeamDIVA

podDIVA: Queers for your Ears

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Today we're turning back the temporal time piece to the year 2013 with DIVA's editor Roxy Bourdillon.

Have you heard our top-rated ep? TheLWordGenQ with Rachel Shelley

Want to hear more of all things LGBTQIA? Grab your copy of DIVA's April issue here.

Edited and produced by Rachel Shelley with additional editing, producing and knock-out audiogram awesomeness by Ella Gauci.

With love and support from TeamDIVA

podDIVA: Queers for your Ears

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Today we're delving into the inky deep water of DIVA in the year 2012!

Have you heard our top-rated ep? TheLWordGenQ with Rachel Shelley

Want to hear more of all things LGBTQIA? Grab your copy of DIVA's April issue here.

Edited and produced by Rachel Shelley with additional editing, producing and knock-out audiogram awesomeness by Ella Gauci.

With love and support from TeamDIVA

podDIVA: Queers for your Ears

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Today we're winding back the temporal time piece to the year 2011!

Have you heard our top-rated ep? TheLWordGenQ with Rachel Shelley

Edited and produced by Rachel Shelley with additional editing, producing and knock-out audiogram awesomeness by Ella Gauci.Want to hear more of all things LGBTQIA? Grab your copy of DIVA's April issue here.

With love and support from TeamDIVA

podDIVA: Queers for your Ears

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Today we're diving into a spectacularly lesbolicious year - I present to you dear DIVAs - 2010! Ta-daaa!

Have you heard our top-rated ep? TheLWordGenQ with Rachel Shelley

Want to hear more of all things LGBTQIA? Grab your copy of DIVA's April issue here.

Edited and produced by Rachel Shelley with additional editing, producing and knock-out audiogram awesomeness by Ella Gauci.

With love and support from TeamDIVA

podDIVA: Queers for your Ears

DIVA - the world's leading brand for LGBTQIA plus women and non-binary people

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Today we're all aboard the time train, zooming faster than the speed of light back to the year 2009!

Have you heard our top-rated ep? TheLWordGenQ with Rachel Shelley

Want to hear more of all things LGBTQIA? Grab your copy of DIVA's April issue here.

Edited and produced by Rachel Shelley with additional editing, producing and knock-out audiogram awesomeness by Ella Gauci.

With love and support from TeamDIVA

podDIVA: Queers for your Ears

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Today we're turning back time to the year 2008!

Have you heard our top-rated ep? TheLWordGenQ with Rachel Shelley

Want to hear more of all things LGBTQIA? Grab your copy of DIVA's April issue here.

Edited and produced by Rachel Shelley with additional editing, producing and knock-out audiogram awesomeness by Ella Gauci.

With love and support from TeamDIVA

podDIVA: Queers for your Ears

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Today we're twisting the time melon man, landing back in the year 2007!

PLUS - seeing as it's Sunday, we thought we'd gift you even more luscious DIVA content.

Here's one of our favourite articles of the last seven years - Someone To Watch Over Me by Erica Roberts.

"Back in the 50s and 60s, a young butch could count on having an older butch as a role model. Erica Roberts reports on the women who are keeping the tradition of butch mentoring alive."

Have you heard our top-rated ep? TheLWordGenQ with Rachel Shelley

Want to hear more of all things LGBTQIA? Grab your copy of DIVA's April issue here.

Edited and produced by Rachel Shelley with additional editing, producing and knock-out audiogram awesomeness by Ella Gauci.

With love and support from TeamDIVA

podDIVA: Queers for your Ears

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Today on this 13th day of April, we are looking back to the thirteenth year of DIVA magazine, and the year 2006!

Have you heard our top-rated ep? TheLWordGenQ with Rachel Shelley

Want to hear more of all things LGBTQIA? Grab your copy of DIVA's April issue here.

Edited and produced by Rachel Shelley with additional editing, producing and knock-out audiogram awesomeness by Ella Gauci.

With love and support from TeamDIVA

podDIVA: Queers for your Ears

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Today we're rolling back the inky time space continuum to... 2005.

Let's go DIVAs!

Have you heard our top-rated ep? TheLWordGenQ with Rachel Shelley

Want to hear more of all things LGBTQIA? Grab your copy of DIVA's April issue here.

Edited and produced by Rachel Shelley with additional editing, producing and knock-out audiogram awesomeness by Ella Gauci.

With love and support from TeamDIVA

podDIVA: Queers for your Ears

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Today we're time travelling back two whole decades to the year 2004! Tick tock.

Have you heard our top-rated ep? TheLWordGenQ with Rachel Shelley

Want to hear more of all things LGBTQIA? Grab your copy of DIVA's April issue here.

Edited and produced by Rachel Shelley with additional editing, producing and knock-out audiogram awesomeness by Ella Gauci.

With love and support from TeamDIVA

podDIVA: Queers for your Ears

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Today we're turning back the clock a full twenty one years... and you ready for 2003?

Have you heard our top-rated ep? TheLWordGenQ with Rachel Shelley

Want to hear more of all things LGBTQIA? Grab your copy of DIVA's April issue here.

Edited and produced by Rachel Shelley with additional editing, producing and knock-out audiogram awesomeness by Ella Gauci.

With love and support from TeamDIVA

podDIVA: Queers for your Ears

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In this conversations with podDIVA's Ella Gauci, we dig into the struggles faced as a queer woman in the music industry, queer rebellion and of course that steamy music video.

Stay in touch:

girli on Twitter

Have you heard our top-rated ep? TheLWordGenQ with Rachel Shelley

Want to hear more of all things LGBTQIA? Grab your copy of DIVA's latest issue here.

Edited and produced by Rachel Shelley with love and support from #TeamDIVA

podDIVA: Queers for your Ears

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Today we're winding back the temporal time piece to the year 2002...

Are you ready? Let's go!

Have you heard our top-rated ep? TheLWordGenQ with Rachel Shelley

Want to hear more of all things LGBTQIA? Grab your copy of DIVA's April issue here.

Edited and produced by Rachel Shelley with additional editing, producing and knock-out audiogram awesomeness by Ella Gauci.

With love and support from TeamDIVA

podDIVA: Queers for your Ears

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Today we're taking a closer look at the year 2001!

Have you heard our top-rated ep? TheLWordGenQ with Rachel Shelley

Want to hear more of all things LGBTQIA? Grab your copy of DIVA's April issue here.

Edited and produced by Rachel Shelley with additional editing, producing and knock-out audiogram awesomeness by Ella Gauci.

With love and support from TeamDIVA

podDIVA: Queers for your Ears

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Today we're all meeting up in the year 2000!

(When in a strange way we're all fully grown...)

PLUS - seeing as it's Sunday, we thought we'd gift you even more luscious DIVA content.

Here's one of our favourite articles of the last seven years - "Dyke TV Interrupts Normal Viewing" from 1995's August / September issue (the one with Anna Friel on the cover).

"Cool Eye at the Centre of the Storm - television executive Caroline Spry leaves her post at Channel 4 this autumn in a blaze of publicity prompted by her latest project, Dyke TV.

ANDREA STUART [writer] assesses Spry's hugely influential career and charts her influence on lesbian and gay programming.

Read by Rachel Shelley.

Have you heard our top-rated ep? TheLWordGenQ with Rachel Shelley

Want to hear more of all things LGBTQIA? Grab your copy of DIVA's April issue here.

Edited and produced by Rachel Shelley with additional editing, producing and knock-out audiogram awesomeness by Ella Gauci.

With love and support from TeamDIVA

podDIVA: Queers for your Ears

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Today we're winding back the time travel machine all the way to 1999, when DIVA was still in its infancy.

Have you heard our top-rated ep? TheLWordGenQ with Rachel Shelley

Want to hear more of all things LGBTQIA? Grab your copy of DIVA's April issue here.

Edited and produced by Rachel Shelley with additional editing, producing and knock-out audiogram awesomeness by Ella Gauci.

With love and support from TeamDIVA

podDIVA: Queers for your Ears

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Today we're zipping on back to the year 1998!

Have you heard our top-rated ep? TheLWordGenQ with Rachel Shelley

Want to hear more of all things LGBTQIA? Grab your copy of DIVA's April issue here.

Edited and produced by Rachel Shelley with additional editing, producing and knock-out audiogram awesomeness by Ella Gauci.

With love and support from TeamDIVA

podDIVA: Queers for your Ears

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Today we're doing the time warp back to the year 1997!

Have you heard our top-rated ep? TheLWordGenQ with Rachel Shelley

Want to hear more of all things LGBTQIA? Grab your copy of DIVA's April issue here.

Edited and produced by Rachel Shelley with additional editing, producing and knock-out audiogram awesomeness by Ella Gauci.

With love and support from TeamDIVA

podDIVA: Queers for your Ears

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Today we're going back to the year 1996!

Have you heard our top-rated ep? TheLWordGenQ with Rachel Shelley

Want to hear more of all things LGBTQIA? Grab your copy of DIVA's April issue here.

Edited and produced by Rachel Shelley with additional editing, producing and knock-out audiogram awesomeness by Ella Gauci.

With love and support from TeamDIVA

podDIVA: Queers for your Ears

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Today we're going back to the year 1995!

Have you heard our top-rated ep? TheLWordGenQ with Rachel Shelley

Want to hear more of all things LGBTQIA? Grab your copy of DIVA's April issue here.

Edited and produced by Rachel Shelley with additional editing, producing and knock-out audiogram awesomeness by Ella Gauci.

With love and support from TeamDIVA

podDIVA: Queers for your Ears

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Today we're going back to the year of DIVA magazine's conception - 1994!

Have you heard our top-rated ep? TheLWordGenQ with Rachel Shelley

Want to hear more of all things LGBTQIA? Grab your copy of DIVA's April issue here.

Edited and produced by Rachel Shelley with additional editing, producing and knock-out audiogram awesomeness by Ella Gauci.

With love and support from TeamDIVA

podDIVA: Queers for your Ears

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Join DIVA editor, the right royal Roxy Bourdillon, and The L Word star Rachel Shelley (aka Helena Peabody) as they delve into the magazine past and present.

Digging up some juicy tid-bits that are sure to tickle your fancy, including

• the remarkable evolution of DIVA over 30 years
• intimate insights into the power of DIVA
• the Sapphic surge in literature, including Musih Ted Xaviere and Gabrielle Korn.

Plus an exclusive Beyond Borders feature starring you, the DIVA listener.

Wherever You Are In the World.

This month: Stephanie and Juliette from Berlin and Paris.

Thanks to both Stephanie et Juliette!

The DIVA Debrief - one gorgeous glossy in your ear.

Have you heard our top-rated ep? TheLWordGenQ with Rachel Shelley

Want to hear more of all things LGBTQIA? Grab your copy of DIVA's April issue here.

Edited and produced by Rachel Shelley with love and support from #TeamDIVA

podDIVA: Queers for your Ears

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In this episode of podDIVA, Kate talks to Rachel Shelley from New York where she is attending the UN's annual Commission on the Status of Women.

Kate is not only a tireless campaigner for her constituents, she also focuses much of her work on equality issues, including trans and all LGBTQIA plus rights.

In this episode we discuss

• her own intimate reflections on 'coming out' to her mother as a teen
• her pathway into politics through trade unions at the Post Office
• dealing with on-line abuse and incendiary language in politics

Stay in touch:

Kate Osborne on Twitter

Have you heard our top-rated ep? TheLWordGenQ with Rachel Shelley

Want to hear more of all things LGBTQIA? Grab your copy of DIVA's latest issue here.

Edited and produced by Rachel Shelley with love and support from #TeamDIVA

podDIVA: Queers for your Ears

DIVA - the world's leading brand for LGBTQIA plus women and non-binary people

Get in touch: poddiva@diva-magazine.com

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Want to see more of all things LGBTQIA? Grab your copy of DIVA's December issue here.

Edited by Ella Gauci.

The world's leading brand for LGBTQIA plus women and non-binary people.

Check out our podDIVA back catalogue with over 100 episodes - where you can find all your favourite LGBTQIA voices.

Are you living outside of the UK? Get in touch: poddiva@diva-magazine.com and tell your LGBTQIA story to the world!

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Ali is talking to Jem Ayres – a certified Sex Geek and Orgasmic Embodiment Coach. She’s a Sex Coach and Tantra practitioner. 

Together they’re discussing:

·      Creating micro-pleasures

·      Reframing failure

·      Unearthing tantric touch

There is so much fascinating stuff to learn in this ep!

Stay connected:

Jem Ayres website

Jem Ayres Facebook

Jem Ayres Insta

Ali Hendry website

Ali Hendry Insta

Have you heard our top-rated ep? TheLWordGenQ with Rachel Shelley

Want to hear more of all things LGBTQIA? Grab your copy of DIVA's December issue here.

Edited and produced by Rachel Shelley with love and support from #TeamDIVA

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• celebrating 50 glorious years of life
• stepping into her power and confidence
• her endless love of music making
• accidentally becoming a gay icon

Now also an Olivier Award winning West End star, Beverley's latest brilliant album The Fifth Chapter released at the end of last year.

Have you heard our top-rated ep? TheLWordGenQ with Rachel Shelley

Want to hear more of all things LGBTQIA? Grab your copy of DIVA's February issue here.

Edited and produced by Rachel Shelley with love and support from #TeamDIVA

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And what a cover!

It's a bumper issue of DIVA magazine and a bumper episode of the DIVA Debrief, with the right royal Roxy Bourdillon, editor supreme, and The L Word star Rachel Shelley (aka Helena Peabody).

Discussing

• LGBTQ History Month
• Twenty years of The L Word - TWENTY!
• Whether it's time to phase out the term "openly gay"
• Ella Gauci's special report on our elderly LGBTQIA+ community

Plus an exclusive Beyond Borders feature starring you, the DIVA listener.

Wherever You Are In the World.

This month: Libbie from Maryland, USA. 

Thank you Libbie!

The DIVA Debrief - one gorgeous glossy in your ear.

Have you heard our top-rated ep? TheLWordGenQ with Rachel Shelley

Want to hear more of all things LGBTQIA? Grab your copy of DIVA's February issue here.

Edited and produced by Rachel Shelley with love and support from #TeamDIVA

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Want to see more of all things LGBTQIA? Grab your copy of DIVA's December issue here.

Edited by Ella Gauci.

Produced by Rachel Shelley with love and support from #TeamDIVA

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CJ DeBarra (they/them) is a non-binary, queer journalist and author from Ireland and based in Nottingham. Today we discuss:

·        Sex, Kink and ADHD

·        ADHD queer dating

·        ADHD self-advocacy

·        Why there are so many queer neurodivergent humans

Stay connected:

CJDeBarra Twitter

CJDeBarra website

Have you heard our top-rated ep? TheLWordGenQ with Rachel Shelley

Want to hear more of all things LGBTQIA? Grab your copy of DIVA's December issue here.

Edited and produced by Rachel Shelley with love and support from #TeamDIVA

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Join us as we dig into what inspires her music, the trials and tribulations of the "old queer longing", having crushes on girls in the year above at school, and about how she met her partner and DIVA-fave singer Art School Girlfriend!

Editorial Assistant Ella Gauci dives into the making of this highly anticipated album.

Have you heard our top-rated ep? TheLWordGenQ with Rachel Shelley

Want to hear more of all things LGBTQIA? Grab your copy of DIVA's December issue here.

Edited by DIVA's amazing Editorial Assistant Ella Gauci

Additional editing and produced by Rachel Shelley with love and support from #TeamDIVA

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A Gentleman Jack bonanza!

Featuring the married folk duo Belinda O'Hooley and Heidi Tidow, creators of THAT theme tune!

We're celebrating this smash HBO / BBC TV show in all its sapphic glory!

With star Suranne Jones on this month's DIVA cover.

Hear amazing tales of love, self-actualization, joy and music-making that Gentleman Jack has inspired.

Including contributions from Patricia Esgate, Neve Elizabeth, Liv Woodward, Meg Maguire, Jill Liddington, Donna Raney, Esther Newton and Sarah Wingrove.

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Wherever you are in the world.

Produced and co-edited by Rachel Shelley with love and support from #TeamDIVA

Additional editing by the awesome Nic Crosara.

Get in touch: editorial@divamag.co.uk

This episode originally aired April 2022

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Moe Ari is the Love and Connection Expert for the dating app Hinge – Hinge is now the UK’s number one trending dating app!

Moe is also a Mental Health Expert in Transgender Identity and a Licenced Marriage & Family Therapist

In this episode, Moe talks to your host of The Relationship Room and DIVA Magazine’s Ali Hendry about Deepening Our Love Goals.

And as we enter the holiday period -  how can we use connection to support our mental health?

Stay connected with Moe Ari Brown:

Insta: @loveoutproud

The DIVA Debrief - one gorgeous glossy in your ear.

Have you heard our top-rated ep? TheLWordGenQ with Rachel Shelley

Want to hear more of all things LGBTQIA? Grab your copy of DIVA's December issue here.

Edited and produced by Rachel Shelley with love and support from #TeamDIVA

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brings you the hottest and most important headlines from the last two weeks in our new segment: DIVA Digest. 

Want to see more of all things LGBTQIA? Grab your copy of DIVA's December issue here.

Edited by Ella Gauci.

Produced by Rachel Shelley with love and support from #TeamDIVA

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Join The L Word star Rachel Shelley (aka Helena Peabody) and DIVA's very own Sapphic-Claus Roxy Bourdillon, resplendent in red velvet with a white faux fur trim, as we dig into this latest issue of DIVA. The one with the sublime Suranne Jones on the cover. 

Rachel and Roxy cosy up together this yuletide, between the covers and under the mistletoe, taking a look at some of our tastiest morsels of writing whilst reflecting back on the highlights of a spectacularly sweet DIVA year. 

Discussing:

• Cover star Suranne Jones and all things Gentleman Jack
• The DIVA effect!
• DIVA turning 30 in 2024
• Lesbionic gifts for that special someone in your life, as picked by Lady Christmas herself.

Plus an exclusive Beyond Borders feature starring you, the DIVA listener.

Wherever You Are In the World.

This month: Irene from Greece. 

Thank you Irene!

The DIVA Debrief - one gorgeous glossy in your ear.

Have you heard our top-rated ep? TheLWordGenQ with Rachel Shelley

Want to hear more of all things LGBTQIA? Grab your copy of DIVA's December issue here.

Edited and produced by Rachel Shelley with love and support from #TeamDIVA

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brings you the hottest and most important headlines from the last two weeks in our new segment: DIVA Digest. 

Want to see more of all things LGBTQIA? Grab your copy of DIVA's October issue here.

Edited by Ella Gauci.

Produced by Rachel Shelley with love and support from #TeamDIVA

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The world's leading brand for LGBTQIA plus women and non-binary people.

Check out our podDIVA back catalogue with over 100 episodes - where you can find all your favourite LGBTQIA voices.

Are you living outside of the UK? Get in touch: poddiva@diva-magazine.com and tell your LGBTQIA story to the world!

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From their journeys of adventure and love, they create blogs and safety tips for LGBTQ plus travellers, empowering and inspiring wherever they land. Be it Jordan or Jamaica, Taiwan or Thailand, they're guaranteed to give you major wanderlust.

Today our right royal editor-in-chief Roxy Bourdillon discovers where it all began, where they've been and what they're aiming for next.

Want to see more of all things LGBTQIA? Grab your copy of DIVA's October issue here.

Edited by Ella Gauci and Rachel Shelley.

Produced by Rachel Shelley with love and support from #TeamDIVA

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In this sparkling episode of podDIVA, our right royal editor-in-chief Roxy Bourdillon talks to the pair about where it all started. From coming out, first dates and feral, drunken evenings.

But not on champagne. Never champagne!

Want to see more of all things LGBTQIA? Grab your copy of DIVA's October issue here.

Edited by Ella Gauci, with additional editing by Rachel Shelley.

Produced by Rachel Shelley with love and support from #TeamDIVA

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Ali Hendry, DIVA magazine’s own Holistic Relationship Coach (PCC) and columnist, digs in with curiosity, compassion... and a sweet garnish of humour. 

This week Ali talks to Musa Francis, a mental health coach who helps LGBTQIA plus creative business owners bloom into happier, healthier, more resilient versions of themselves.

Together they discuss:

• micro-dosing on joy
• methods of building resilience
• regulating your nervous system
• how to build from the bottom up

Get in touch with Musa Francis:

Instagram: @bloomingqueer

Website: bloomingqueer.com

Ali Hendry she/her

Holistic Relationship Coach & DIVA Magazine columnist

instagram.com/alihendrycoaching

www.alihendry.co.uk

Want to see more of all things LGBTQIA? Grab your copy of DIVA's October issue here.

Edited and produced by Rachel Shelley with love and support from #TeamDIVA

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Join The L Word star Rachel Shelley (aka Helena Peabody) and your right royal DIVA Magazine editor extraordinaire Roxy Bourdillon, as we celebrate our free-ass M.F. cover star, Janelle Monáe, on location in central London.

In a special feature exploring the DIVA exhibition at The V&A Museum, DIVA magazine takes pride of place alongside Janelle Monáe's vagina pants and their sumptuous 2013 DIVA cover. And here at podDIVA, we couldn't be prouder!

Especially as we have the glorious Janelle on this month's cover too!

Together Rachel and Roxy dive beneath the covers, with a soupçon of spooky-season silliness, exploring with love and laughter this latest bumper issue of DIVA magazine.

Discussing:

• Janelle Monae and all the other divas featured in the V&A's exhibition of the same name

• Queer Refugees Unite - their fight for asylum

• the revolutionary Lesbian Supper Club

Plus an exclusive Beyond Borders feature starring you, the DIVA listener.

Wherever You Are In the World.

This month: Anastasia from Toronto, Canada.

Thank you Anastasia!

The DIVA Debrief - one gorgeous glossy in your ear.

Want to hear more of all things LGBTQIA? Grab your copy of DIVA's October issue here.

Edited and produced by Rachel Shelley with love and support from #TeamDIVA

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But now she also has her directorial debut feature that’s scooping up lots of attention. 

Starring DIVA favourite Amrit Kaur from The Sex Lives of College Girls, The Queen of My Dreams has its UK premiere at the BFI London Film Festival in October, followed later by a screening at the Iris Prize in Cardiff.

Shot in Pakistan and Toronto, there’s even a sprinkling of Bollywood thrown in. 

Fawzia talks to Deputy Editor Nic Crosara about

• directing her first feature
• working with Amrit Kaur
• how we are all story tellers.

Want to see more of all things LGBTQIA? Grab your copy of DIVA's October issue here.

Edited and produced by Rachel Shelley with love and support from #TeamDIVA

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This episode first aired on podDIVA in 2021.

You may know the wonderful Heather Peace from EastEnders, where she has conjured up the complex character of Eve Unwin, earning nominations and a small media frenzy. Before that she was Detective Sergeant Sam Murray in Lip Service. Let's not forget she is also a stunningly successful singer-songwriter!

Heather Peace talks to DIVA magazine editor Roxy Bourdillon about coming out in the 90s, finding love and work, and creating sweet, sweet music in the rain.

Want to see more of all things LGBTQIA? Grab your copy of DIVA's August issue here.

Edited and produced by Rachel Shelley with love and support from #TeamDIVA

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This episode first aired on podDIVA in March 2023.

It may be the end for The L Word Generation Q, but with talk of an L Word New York spin-off, perhaps Bette and Tina's happy-ever-after is just the start of something new.

Hear your L Word favourites Jennifer Beals (Bette Porter) and Laurel Holloman (Tina Kennard) sharing all the joy with Rachel Shelley (Helena Peabody) - talking, laughing, loving, breathing... thinking, dreaming.

In this fun, intimate chat, heavy with laughter, Jennifer and Laurel discuss their on-screen romance of twenty years. From how it all began... to how it all ended with the Gen Q Season 3 finale.

Or perhaps it's just a beginning?

Want to see more of all things LGBTQIA? Grab your copy of DIVA's August issue here.

Edited and produced by Rachel Shelley with love and support from #TeamDIVA

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Jennifer Beals is an icon.

You'll know and love her for playing Bette Porter on Showtime's The L Word for very nearly 20 years.

But her illustrious career has spanned a plethora of culture-defining cinematic moments and performances.

The show's current iteration, The L Word Generation Q, sees her navigating the choppy waters of teen parenting, with and without her long term significant other, Tina Kennard.

In this intimate interview, DIVA's stunning January cover star discusses

• love
• the power of L-Word fans
• her friendship with actress Laurel Holloman on and off screen.

Interviewed by her royal DIVA-ness, DIVA magazine Editor Roxy Bourdillon.

This episode first aired on podDIVA in February 2023.

Want to see more of all things LGBTQIA? Grab your copy of DIVA's August issue here.

Edited and produced by Rachel Shelley with love and support from #TeamDIVA

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The awesome comedian Sophie Duker is not only headlining at Bi Pride this September, she can also be found creating joy and laughter at the Roundhouse Comedy Festival in London.

These two DIVA interviews were first aired in November 2021 and September 2018.

Want to see more of all things LGBTQIA? Grab your copy of DIVA's August issue here.

Edited and produced by Rachel Shelley with love and support from #TeamDIVA

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Comedian, author, documentarian, cover star... the inimitable Rosie Jones talks to DIVA editor Roxy Bourdillon about

• Sex
• Queer joy
• Using her platform for disabled people.

A version of this interview originally aired on podDIVA in January 2022.

Want to see more of all things LGBTQIA? Grab your copy of DIVA's August issue here.

Edited and produced by Rachel Shelley with love and support from #TeamDIVA

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The duo talk to DIVA's deputy editor Nic Crosara about

• filming season two in Paris,
• building their onscreen chemistry
• what LGBTQIA goodness viewers have to look forward to

Heartstopper is a Netflix TV adaptation of the hugely popular graphic novel series by Alice Oseman.

Want to see more of all things LGBTQIA? Grab your copy of DIVA's August issue here.

Edited by Nic Crosara. With additional editing and produced by Rachel Shelley with love and support from #TeamDIVA

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Sarah talks to DIVA's deputy editor Nic Crosara about

• the trajectory of her career,
• being an LGBTQIA ally and
• Carmen and Shane's sizzling chemistry on The L Word

Please note: this interview was completed prior to Thursday 13th July

Want to see more of all things LGBTQIA? Grab your copy of DIVA's August issue here.

Edited and produced by Rachel Shelley with love and support from #TeamDIVA

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Tiff Derr was a stand-out star of the show, and in this episode of podDIVA, they talk to Deputy Editor Nic Crosara about

• their non binary identity
• the impact of the show on the LGBTQIA community
• life after Ultimatum

Accompanied, of course, by their dog Shylo!

Want to see more of all things LGBTQIA? Grab your copy of DIVA's July issue here.

Edited and produced by Rachel Shelley with love and support from #TeamDIVA

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Ali Hendry, DIVA magazine’s own Holistic Relationship Coach (PCC) and columnist, digs in with curiosity, compassion... and a sweet garnish of humour. 

This week Ali talks to Jennie Williams, CEO of the charity Enhance the UK, a charity run by disabled people.

Together they discuss:

• Rewriting your sexual blueprint
• Unpacking intersectional identity
• How to be an effective ally

Get in touch with Jennie Williams:

Instagram: @undressingdisability 

TikTok: @undressingdisability 

Twitter: @ETUKUndressing

LinkedIn: Undressing Disability

YouTube: Enhance the UK

Ali Hendry she/her

Holistic Relationship Coach & DIVA Magazine columnist

instagram.com/alihendrycoaching

www.alihendry.co.uk

Want to see more of all things LGBTQIA? Grab your copy of DIVA's July issue here.

Edited and produced by Rachel Shelley with love and support from #TeamDIVA

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With 83 thousand followers on Insta, 92 thousand on TikTok and a huge 253 thousand subscribers on YouTube. If you don't know her - where have you been hiding?

Jade posts queer lifestyle and entertainment content: she's funny, uplifting and inspiring.

As a Black queer woman, she's made an impact by committing to sharing her unique and authentic perspective on fashion and pop culture.

Want to see more of all things LGBTQIA? Grab your copy of DIVA's July issue here.

Edited and produced by Rachel Shelley with love and support from #TeamDIVA

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Join The L Word star Rachel Shelley (aka Helena Peabody) and the red-hot DIVA Magazine editor extraordinaire Roxy Bourdillon, as we celebrate our phenomenal July cover star, the inimitable Lucy Spraggan.

Together they dive beneath the covers, bathing in the clear, cool waters of your favourite LGBTQIA plus glossy magazine, with love and laughter.

Discussing:

• Our Pride Parenting Special - a bonanza of guidance and first-hand experiences
• The transformative power of heartbreak
• Being an ally
• Barbie! Squeal!

Plus an exclusive Beyond Borders feature starring you, the DIVA listener.

Wherever You Are In the World.

This month: Alex Kondracke and Angela Robinson from California

Alex and Angela are writers and film-makers who've worked on The L Word, D.E.B.S , True Blood, Professor Marston & the Wonder Women... Hollywood moguls, basically.

Thank you Alex and Angela! Thank you!

(and thank you George!)

The DIVA Debrief - one gorgeous glossy in your ear.

Want to hear more of all things LGBTQIA? Grab your copy of DIVA's July issue here.

Edited and produced by Rachel Shelley with love and support from #TeamDIVA

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Warning: this episode contains some whistling. It's Pride baby!

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And nor can the rest of the world it seems, with Netflix giving Golda her own, well-deserved spin-off show!

Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story, has ascended from TV's Bridgerton to a whole other realm, over which she reigns supreme. Of course!

In this quick catch up, Golda talks to DIVA's editorial assistant Krysta McKenzie, about

• the power of silence
• diversity in casting
• those pesky pomeranians, having the time of their lives!

Want to see more of all things LGBTQIA? Grab your copy of DIVA magazine here.

Edited and produced by Rachel Shelley with love and support from #TeamDIVA

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The Relationship Room is a safe place to discuss ideas that help us navigate interpersonal relationships. Ali Hendry, DIVA magazine’s own Holistic Relationship Coach (PCC) and columnist, digs in with curiosity, compassion... and a sweet garnish of humour. 

This week Ali talks to sex, relationships and lifestyle writer, Emilie Lavinia.

Emilie is also a sexologist and the Sex and Relationships Editor at Cosmopolitan UK. 

Together they discuss:

• The truth about non-monogamy
• Embracing sex in menopause
• Enhancing pleasure and intimacy

Get in touch with Emilie (she/her):

instagram.com/emilielaviniauk

twitter.com/emilielavinia

emilielavinia.com

cosmopolitan.com/uk/

Ali Hendry she/her

Holistic Relationship Coach & DIVA Magazine columnist

instagram.com/alihendrycoaching

www.alihendry.co.uk

Want to see more of all things LGBTQIA? Grab your copy of DIVA's June issue here.

Edited and produced by Rachel Shelley with love and support from #TeamDIVA

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A little Pride present for all our proud listeners!

The activist, celesbian and sparkling style icon talks to DIVA magazine's Nic Crosara about love, dating and how every single voice has the power to make a big change.

Especially when there are 450+ anti-LGBTQIA bills in the United States.

Support Amber by getting involved at Lambda Legal, representing LGBTQ+ people in the court of law and in the court of public opinion.

Want to see more of all things LGBTQIA? Grab your copy of DIVA's June issue here.

Produced by Rachel Shelley.

Edited by Nic Crosara and Rachel Shelley with love and support from #TeamDIVA

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It's Pride month! Come join the celebration!

Join The L Word star Rachel Shelley and DIVA Magazine editor extraordinaire, the resplendent Roxy Bourdillon, as they celebrate June's rainbow-tastic Pride issue! Toot toot!

With the all-sparkling, all-inspiring Amber Whittington on the cover.

Together they dig deep into your favourite LGBTQIA plus glossy magazine, with love and laughter.

Discussing:

• Our Proud cover star Amber Whittington aka Amber's Closet
• Pride in the city AND in rural areas
• Your very first Pride (everyone remembers their first time)

Plus an exclusive Beyond Borders feature starring you, the DIVA listener.

Wherever You Are In the World.

This month: Vicki Blight from Abergavenny, Wales

Vicki is a presenter, producer and voice over artist, for BBC Radio 2, BBC Radio Wales and Virgin Radio.

Thank you Vicki!

The DIVA Debrief - one gorgeous glossy in your ear.

Want to hear more of all things LGBTQIA? Grab your copy of DIVA's June issue here.

Edited and produced by Rachel Shelley with love and support from #TeamDIVA

podDIVA: Queers for your Ears

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Warning: this episode contains some whistling. It's Pride baby!

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Self-proclaimed butch and professional bisexual, Lily is the author of fabulously funny and best-selling queer rom-coms – Double Booked and the upcoming My Own Worst Enemy.

In this lively, energetic and giggly  interview with DIVA Magazine’s Georgia Dimdore-Miles, Lily reveals her love for rivalry, for butch-ness and for comedy. 

It’s also a masterclass in flirtation!

Lily Lindon’s second novel My Own Worst Enemy is published June 8th

Want to see more of all things LGBTQIA? Grab your copy of DIVA's May issue here.

Edited and produced by Rachel Shelley with love and support from #TeamDIVA

podDIVA: Queers for your Ears

The world's leading brand for LGBTQIA plus women and non-binary people

Get in touch: poddiva@diva-magazine.com

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The Relationship Room is a safe place to discuss ideas that help us navigate interpersonal relationships. Ali Hendry, DIVA magazine’s own Holistic Relationship Coach (PCC) and columnist, digs in with curiosity, compassion and a sweet garnish of humour. 

This week Ali talks to sex therapist and author, Lucie Fielding.

Lucie Fielding, PhD, MA, LMHC (she/they) is a queer, trans misogyny-affected (TMA) femme and a sex therapist practicing in Virginia and Washington State, a sex educator.

Lucie is also the author of Trans Sex: Clinical Approaches to Trans Sexualities and Erotic Embodiments (2021).

Together they discuss:

·        Delineating labels and identity

·        Diving into the awkwardness of sex

·        Ways of moving into desire and pleasure

Get in touch with Lucie (she/they):

IG: @sexbeyondbinaries

website: https://luciefielding.com

Want to see more pictures of all things LGBTQIA? Grab your copy of DIVA's May issue here.

Edited and produced by Rachel Shelley with love and support from #TeamDIVA

podDIVA: Queers for your Ears

The world's leading brand for LGBTQIA plus women and non-binary people

Get in touch: poddiva@diva-magazine.com

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Whilst Shawntae is also known as Da Brat - the first female solo rapper to sell one million copies with her debut album...

Judy is a hugely successful beauty entrepreneur and business woman.

Together they not only created Kaleidoscope Hair Products...

They also sum up all that is bold and beautiful about black queer love, on this month's cover of DIVA magazine.

Hear the love as this power couple reveal how they got together, how they're starting a family, and how to handle having a camera crew in their lives.

All whilst keeping their six dogs in order.

With Deputy Editor Nic Crosara.

Want to see more pictures of Brat Loves Judy and all things LGBTQIA? Grab your copy of DIVA's May issue here.

Edited and produced by Rachel Shelley with love and support from #TeamDIVA

podDIVA: Queers for your Ears

The world's leading brand for LGBTQIA plus women and non-binary people

Get in touch: poddiva@diva-magazine.com

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Totally technicolored, hugely over-hauled and seriously up-sophisticated, DIVA magazine has had something of a make-over!

Join The L Word actress Rachel Shelley and DIVA Magazine editor extraordinaire, the very regal Roxy Bourdillon, as they toast this illustrious May issue. The monarch of all magazines, delivered directly to your device by golden carriage in this, the week of the King's coronation. Ta-daaa!

Together they dig deep into your favourite LGBTQIA plus glossy magazine, with love and laughter.

Discussing:

• The jubilant 2023 DIVA Awards
• The all mighty DIVA Power List
• Our Kaleidoscopic crowning-glory cover stars Da Brat and Judy

Plus an exclusive Beyond Borders feature starring you, the DIVA listener. Wherever You Are In the World.

This month: Tracy Gilchrist from West Hollywood, USA.

Tracy is a 20 year veteran of LGBTQ+ media, working most recently with The Advocate magazine.

Thank you Tracy!

The DIVA Debrief - one gorgeous glossy in your ear.

Want to hear more of all things LGBTQIA? Grab your copy of DIVA's May issue here.

Edited and produced by Rachel Shelley with love and support from #TeamDIVA

podDIVA: Queers for your Ears

DIVA - the world's leading brand for LGBTQIA plus women and non-binary people

Get in touch: poddiva@diva-magazine.com

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Every day this week, podDIVA highlights the life of one of our listeners from beyond our borders. This series of lyrical features is weaved together from the listener's raw footage, to create evocative audio postcards.

Connecting and strengthening a community of lesbians and queer women, wherever you are in the world.

Today: Nikki Symmons from Ireland... via Switzerland.

You can hear a new Beyond Borders feature every month on podDIVA.

If you're an LGBTQIA plus woman or non-binary person, podDIVA is your weekly podcast.

podDIVA: Queers for your Ears

In association with DIVA magazine, the world's leading brand for LGBTQIA plus women and non-binary people.

Produced and edited by Rachel Shelley with love and support from #TeamDIVA

Get in touch: podDIVA@diva-magazine.com

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Every day this week, podDIVA highlights the life of one of our listeners from beyond our borders. This series of lyrical features is weaved together from the listener's raw footage, to create evocative audio postcards.

Connecting and strengthening a community of lesbians and queer women, wherever you are in the world.

Today: Marbe Anne from the Philippines

You can hear a new Beyond Borders feature every month on podDIVA.

If you're an LGBTQIA plus woman or non-binary person, podDIVA is your weekly podcast.

podDIVA: Queers for your Ears

In association with DIVA magazine, the world's leading brand for LGBTQIA plus women and non-binary people.

Produced and edited by Rachel Shelley with love and support from #TeamDIVA

Get in touch: podDIVA@diva-magazine.com

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Every day this week, podDIVA highlights the life of one of our listeners from beyond our borders. This series of lyrical features is weaved together from the listener's raw footage, to create evocative audio postcards.

Connecting and strengthening a community of lesbians and queer women, wherever you are in the world.

Today: Gerry from West Virginia, USA

You can hear a new Beyond Borders feature every month on podDIVA.

If you're an LGBTQIA plus woman or non-binary person, podDIVA is your weekly podcast.

podDIVA: Queers for your Ears

In association with DIVA magazine, the world's leading brand for LGBTQIA plus women and non-binary people.

Produced and edited by Rachel Shelley with love and support from #TeamDIVA

Get in touch: podDIVA@diva-magazine.com

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Discover everything about this amazing Employee Resource Group and the great impact it's having on staff and company alike.

Featuring, amongst many others, the fantastically funny Rosie Jones and the audaciously awesome Tom Allen.

Want to hear more about 4Pride and all things LGBTQIA? Grab your copy of DIVA's April issue here.

Edited and produced by Rachel Shelley with love and support from #TeamDIVA

With enormous thanks to everyone at 4Pride for making this episode happen, especially the all-powerful Ellis Cook.

podDIVA: Queers for your Ears

The world's leading brand for LGBTQIA plus women and non-binary people

Get in touch: poddiva@diva-magazine.com

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Every day this week, podDIVA highlights the life of one of our listeners from beyond our borders. This series of lyrical features is weaved together from the listener's raw footage, to create evocative audio postcards.

Connecting and strengthening a community of lesbians and queer women, wherever you are in the world.

Today: Tutu from Bali, Indonesia

You can hear a new Beyond Borders feature every month on podDIVA.

If you're an LGBTQIA plus woman or non-binary person, podDIVA is your weekly podcast.

podDIVA: Queers for your Ears

In association with DIVA magazine, the world's leading brand for LGBTQIA plus women and non-binary people.

Produced and edited by Rachel Shelley with love and support from #TeamDIVA

Get in touch: podDIVA@diva-magazine.com

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Every day this week, podDIVA highlights the life of one of our listeners from beyond our borders. This series of lyrical features is weaved together from the listener's raw footage, to create evocative audio postcards.

Connecting and strengthening a community of lesbians and queer women, wherever you are in the world.

Today: Cara and Nikki from Scotland - Wilder Ways horse riding adventures..

You can hear a new Beyond Borders feature every month on podDIVA.

If you're an LGBTQIA plus woman or non-binary person, podDIVA is your weekly podcast.

podDIVA: Queers for your Ears

In association with DIVA magazine, the world's leading brand for LGBTQIA plus women and non-binary people.

Produced and edited by Rachel Shelley with love and support from #TeamDIVA

Get in touch: podDIVA@diva-magazine.com

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In this episode of podDIVA, Polly Mackey talks to DIVA’s editorial assistant Georgia Dimdore Miles about finding her name, the pain behind queer joy, and making sweet music with her partner Marika Hackman. Who just happens to drop in…

Want to hear more about Art School Girlfriend and all things LGBTQIA? Grab your copy of DIVA's April issue here.

Edited and produced by Rachel Shelley with love and support from #TeamDIVA

podDIVA: Queers for your Ears

The world's leading brand for LGBTQIA plus women and non-binary people

Get in touch: poddiva@diva-magazine.com

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Having won two gold medals at the Athens Olympics in 2004, Dame Kelly has gone on to work tirelessly for young people, setting up the Dame Kelly Holmes Trust in 2008.

Our much celebrated cover star talks openly to DIVA deputy editor Nic Crosara about

• her army career
• her coming out journey
• her charity work

Want to see more pictures of Dame Kelly Holmes and all things LGBTQIA? Grab your copy of DIVA's March issue here.

Edited and produced by Rachel Shelley with love and support from #TeamDIVA

podDIVA: Queers for your Ears

The world's leading brand for LGBTQIA plus women and non-binary people

Get in touch: poddiva@diva-magazine.com

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Laurel Holloman laughing her pretty socks off.

Jennifer Beals and Laurel Holloman's charity auction started Monday April 3rd.

All proceeds go to GLSEN.

Head over to Charity Buzz to find out more.

Want to hear more about all things LGBTQIA? Grab your copy of DIVA's April issue here.

If you're an LGBTQIA plus woman or non binary person, podDIVA is your weekly podcast.

Edited and produced by Rachel Shelley with love and support from #TeamDIVA

podDIVA: Queers for your Ears

The world's leading brand for LGBTQIA plus women and non-binary people

Get in touch: poddiva@diva-magazine.com

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There's so much to celebrate in this episode!

It's Lesbian Visibility Month - should be 12 of them, really - which culminates April 23rd with Lesbian Visibility Week and the queer-tastic DIVA Awards on April 28th!

Not only do we have National Treasure Dame Kelly Holmes on our 24-carat cover, we also have a jam-packed issue full of fresh, mind-expanding features.

Join The L Word actress Rachel Shelley and DIVA Magazine editor extraordinaire Roxy Bourdillon as they mull over the previous week's hullaballoo regarding THAT interview (with L Word Gen Q stars Jennifer Beals and Laurel Holloman).

Together they dig deep into your favourite LGBTQIA plus glossy magazine, with curiosity and laughter.

Discussing:

• The evolution of our identities
• Comp cis-het
• Whether queer polyamory is a radical feminist act?

Plus an exclusive Beyond Borders feature starring you, the DIVA listener. Wherever You Are In the World.

This month: Nikki Symmons from Dublin by way of Switzerland.

Nikki is Ireland's most capped female athlete ever, scoring 31 goals in 208 appearances for her national hockey team.

Thank you Nikki!

The DIVA Debrief - one gorgeous glossy in your ear.

Want to hear more of all things LGBTQIA? Grab your copy of DIVA's April issue here.

Edited and produced by Rachel Shelley with love and support from #TeamDIVA

podDIVA: Queers for your Ears

DIVA - the world's leading brand for LGBTQIA plus women and non-binary people

Get in touch: poddiva@diva-magazine.com

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

All proceeds go to GLSEN.

Head over to Charity Buzz to find out more.

Want to hear more about all things LGBTQIA? Grab your copy of DIVA's April issue here.

If you're an LGBTQIA plus woman or non binary person, podDIVA is your weekly podcast.

Edited and produced by Rachel Shelley with love and support from #TeamDIVA

podDIVA: Queers for your Ears

The world's leading brand for LGBTQIA plus women and non-binary people

Get in touch: poddiva@diva-magazine.com

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Look out for more bonuses from podDIVA, Wherever You Are In the World.

Jennifer Beals and Laurel Holloman's charity auction started Monday April 3rd.

All proceeds go to GLSEN.

Head over to Charity Buzz to find out more.

Want to hear more about all things LGBTQIA? Grab your copy of DIVA's April issue here.

If you're an LGBTQIA plus woman or non binary person, podDIVA is your weekly podcast.

Edited and produced by Rachel Shelley with love and support from #TeamDIVA

podDIVA: Queers for your Ears

The world's leading brand for LGBTQIA plus women and non-binary people

Get in touch: poddiva@diva-magazine.com

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Hear your L Word favourites Jennifer Beals (Bette Porter) and Laurel Holloman (Tina Kennard) sharing all the joy with Rachel Shelley (Helena Peabody) - talking, laughing, loving, breathing... thinking, dreaming.

In this fun, intimate chat, heavy with laughter, Jennifer and Laurel discuss their on-screen romance of twenty years. From how it all began... to how it all ended with the Gen Q Season 3 finale.

Or perhaps it's just a beginning?

And discover how to get your hands on some TiBette history whilst helping the wonderful GLSEN charity - go to Charity Buzz from April 3rd to find out more.

Want to hear more about The L Word, L Word Gen Q and all things LGBTQIA? Grab your copy of DIVA's April issue here.

Edited and produced by Rachel Shelley with love and support from #TeamDIVA

podDIVA: Queers for your Ears

The world's leading brand for LGBTQIA plus women and non-binary people

Get in touch: poddiva@diva-magazine.com

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Jade Le Mac is from the beautiful Vancouver Island, where she’s been making music since she was 12 years old.  We’re lucky enough to feature a couple of those tracks in this episode – Car Accident and Constellations. Both are from her EP Constellations, available now.  So thank you Jade.

In this episode, Jade LeMac talks to Krysta Mckenzie,  DIVA’s new Editorial Assistant. Welcome Krysta!

They chat about her musical upbringing, legendary karaoke songs and realising she was bisexual.

Want to hear more about Jade Le Mac and all things LGBTQIA? Grab your copy of DIVA's March issue here.

Edited and produced by Rachel Shelley with love and support from #TeamDIVA

podDIVA: Queers for your Ears

The world's leading brand for LGBTQIA plus women and non-binary people

Get in touch: poddiva@diva-magazine.com

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The Relationship Room is a safe place to discuss ideas that help us navigate interpersonal relationships. Ali Hendry, DIVA magazine’s own Holistic Relationship Coach (PCC) and columnist, digs in with curiosity, compassion and a sweet garnish of humour. 

Today's topic: Create The Life You Want.

Ali talks to the author of Feeling Myself, Natalie Alexis Lee, about:

Learning to manifest

Community healing

Feeling inspired versus being inspired

Committing to inclusion

Sexual balance

And if you want to learn more about Ali, grab a copy of DIVA magazine or contact her via http://alihendry.co.uk

Edited and produced by Rachel Shelley with love and support from #TeamDIVA

podDIVA: Queers for your Ears

The world's leading brand for LGBTQIA plus women and non-binary people

Get in touch: poddiva@diva-magazine.com

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That's three of the stars of Scare BNB: The Hosts, a fun thriller with an all-queer lead cast, that's now airing on DIVA Box Office.

Lily Richards, Sterling Victorian and Mandahla Rose chat to DIVA's Izzie Jones about the power of working on a queer production, getting snowed in together and Sterling also talks about being a queer woman of colour in a horror movie... and all the tropes that usually surround that.

Welcome to podDIVA Izzie Jones!

Want to hear more about Scare BNB: The Hosts and all things LGBTQIA? Grab your copy of DIVA's March issue here.

Edited and produced by Rachel Shelley with love and support from #TeamDIVA

podDIVA: Queers for your Ears

The world's leading brand for LGBTQIA plus women and non-binary people

Get in touch: poddiva@diva-magazine.com

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It's March, the days are getting longer, and it's time to get outside and celebrate the sweet, sweet smell of spring!