“The girl who was once happy with a cardboard box and a spatula, is now asking for makeup, handbags and fake nails” BY JENNA WIMSHURST As my niece gets older and starts telling me what she actually want for her birthday, I find myself in a bit of a pickle. The girl who was once [….]
“Ladies and gentlemen hold onto your wigs ’cause this bish is back” BY ELEANOR NOYCE. IMAGE INSTAGRAM/SARAH CASS. We knew that Marika Hackman was writing new songs slash in the studio, but we didn’t know to expect new music so soon. Surprise! Any artist that drops a new single on a Wednesday afternoon has our [….]
After experiencing the summer camp of a lifetime, Shirley Ridson set about creating an event in the UK BY SHIRLEY RIDSON Read the first part of Shirley’s story here: divamag.co.uk/2019/04/16/how-i-met-200-naked-lesbians My friend and I left the magical island of Sejero off the north coast of Denmark, where we had spent a memorable time at a [….]
The super talented musician talks queer artists, social media, and the future of US politics WORDS BY ELEANOR NOYCE, IMAGE BY DANIEL SMITH COLEMAN US-based musician Sarah Walk first came into our DIVA-shaped lives a couple of years ago. Having appeared on Radio DIVA with Heather Peace, she played the DIVA Musical Festival in 2018 [….]
“Our music would still sound the same if I wasn’t gay. Our song about The L Word would probably just be about Sex And The City instead” WORDS BY ELEANOR NOYCE, PHOTO CREDIT JAMES BAKER Navigating the music scene as a woman is hard. Navigating it as a queer woman is even harder. Misogyny is [….]
“We don’t need to discuss whether sex work is real work – it is” BY ELEANOR NOYCE. JOANA NASTARI (PICTURED) “The best thing that you can do is listen to sex workers. Take the power and put it back in the hands of the workers” Fuck You Pay Me, the witchy, feminist-shaped, celebratory creation of [….]
Looking to do an MBA? You could be one of the first to apply for Scotland’s LGBT+ specific scholarship BY KATHRYN PIERCE (PICTURED, CREDIT RACHEL FOX) There’s just over a week to go until the deadline for the Somewhere EDI LGBT+ MBA Scholarship in partnership with the University Of Edinburgh Business School. This is the [….]
