podDIVA

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 December issue here.Edited by Ella Gauci.Produced by Rachel Shelley with love and support from #TeamDIVApodDIVA: Queers for your EarsThe 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!

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 JackThe DIVA effect!DIVA turning 30 in 2024Lesbionic 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 ShelleyWant 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 #TeamDIVApodDIVA: Queers for your EarsDIVA - the world's leading brand for LGBTQIA plus women and non-binary peopleGet in touch: poddiva@diva-magazine.com

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 #TeamDIVApodDIVA: Queers for your EarsThe 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!

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 #TeamDIVApodDIVA: Queers for your EarsThe 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!

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 #TeamDIVApodDIVA: Queers for your EarsThe world's leading brand for LGBTQIA plus women and non-binary peopleCheck 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

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 joymethods of building resilienceregulating your nervous systemhow to build from the bottom upGet in touch with Musa Francis:Instagram: @bloomingqueerWebsite: bloomingqueer.com Ali Hendry she/herHolistic Relationship Coach & DIVA Magazine columnistinstagram.com/alihendrycoachingwww.alihendry.co.ukWant 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 #TeamDIVApodDIVA: Queers for your EarsThe world's leading brand for LGBTQIA plus women and non-binary peopleCheck out our podDIVA back catalogue with over 100 episodes.Get in touch: poddiva@diva-magazine.com

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 nameQueer Refugees Unite - their fight for asylumthe revolutionary Lesbian Supper ClubPlus 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 #TeamDIVApodDIVA: Queers for your EarsDIVA - the world's leading brand for LGBTQIA plus women and non-binary peopleGet in touch: poddiva@diva-magazine.com

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 aboutdirecting her first featureworking with Amrit Kaurhow 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 #TeamDIVApodDIVA: Queers for your EarsThe world's leading brand for LGBTQIA plus women and non-binary peopleCheck out our podDIVA back catalogue with over 100 episodes.Get in touch: poddiva@diva-magazine.com

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 #TeamDIVApodDIVA: Queers for your EarsThe world's leading brand for LGBTQIA plus women and non-binary peopleCheck out our podDIVA back catalogue with over 100 episodes.Get in touch: poddiva@diva-magazine.com