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DIVA Debrief: December 2023 Nov 29, 2023

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Get ready for the big bash - DIVA is turning 30 next year! Woo hoo!

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

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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DIVA Digest - new! Nov 22, 2023

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DIVA magazine's editorial assistant Ella (aka your personal queer newsreader)...

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

podDIVA: Queers for your Ears

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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On Airplane Mode Nov 15, 2023

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Whether it's sunset swims, Colosseum kisses or Las Vegas loving, On Airplane Mode duo Kirstie and Christine have been creating gorgeously hip on-line content for over five years, winning the hearts of half a million followers world-wide.

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

podDIVA: Queers for your Ears

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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Lesbian Supper Club Nov 01, 2023

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Lesbian Supper Club is a truly fabulous, filthy and irreverent queer podcast, hosted by real life couple Scarlett and Freya.

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

podDIVA: Queers for your Ears

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.

Get in touch: poddiva@diva-magazine.com

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The Relationship Room with Musa Francis Oct 18, 2023

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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 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

podDIVA: Queers for your Ears

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

Check out our podDIVA back catalogue with over 100 episodes.

Get in touch: poddiva@diva-magazine.com

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DIVA Debrief: October 2023 Oct 04, 2023

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It's DIVA date day and everyone's invited - we're whisking you off to London's Victoria and Albert Museum to join the DIVA celebrations!

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

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.

Fawzia Mirza Sep 20, 2023

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You may know screen writer and director Fawzia Mirza from the TV series Bite Size Holidays, or perhaps the Syed Family Xmas Eve Game Night.

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

podDIVA: Queers for your Ears

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

Check out our podDIVA back catalogue with over 100 episodes.

Get in touch: poddiva@diva-magazine.com

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Heather Peace: Summer Re-sizzle Sep 06, 2023

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podDIVA is off on its summer holidays, so we're re-running a few of our red-hot favourite episodes, just to keep in touch.

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

podDIVA: Queers for your Ears

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

Check out our podDIVA back catalogue with over 100 episodes.

Get in touch: poddiva@diva-magazine.com

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Jennifer and Laurel Summer Re-sizzle Aug 30, 2023

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podDIVA is off on its summer holidays, so we're re-running a few of our red-hot favourite episodes, just to keep in touch.

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

podDIVA: Queers for your Ears

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

Check out our podDIVA back catalogue with over 100 episodes.

Get in touch: poddiva@diva-magazine.com

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

Jennifer Beals Summer Re-sizzle Aug 23, 2023

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podDIVA is on their summer holidays, so we're sending you some of our favourite episodes of the year. Because they're worth firing up the barbie and re-sizzling.

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