Weds 4th June
6.30-9pm
Join DIVA editor-in-chief Roxy Bourdillon and host Rosie Wilby for a special live podcast recording of The Breakup Monologues to celebrate Pride Month and the publication of Roxy's debut What A Girl Wants: A (True) Story of Sexuality and Self-discovery.
From the suburbs of Leeds to the streets of Sydney, from the queer clubs of London to a quiet life by the sea, through love, family, friendship and heartache, join Roxy Bourdillon on a journey to work out exactly who she is. What a Girl Wants is the perfect read for anyone who’s searched for their place in the world, for anyone who’s ever been catcalled, anyone who's despaired about their body, fallen in love, had their heart broken and found friends who can put it back together. Author Roxy Bourdillon is an award-winning writer and the editor-in-chief of DIVA, the world's leading magazine for LGBTQIA+ women and non-binary people. As a journalist she has interviewed everyone from A-listers Emma Stone, Rachel Weisz and Keira Knightley to the legendary Rebel Dykes. Roxy’s writing has appeared in Cosmopolitan, The Guardian, Woman & Home, Attitude and more. Her groundbreaking work in media has earned her a place in both the Pride Power List and the Attitude 101: LGBTQ+ Trailblazers Changing The World.
The Breakup Monologues features very special guests sharing their funny, bizarre and poignant stories of love, heartbreak and recovery with award-winning comedian, author and speaker Rosie Wilby, who spent a decade researching the psychology of love for her trilogy of shows The Science of Sex, Is Monogamy Dead? and The Conscious Uncoupling. The podcast regularly records live episodes at major festivals and has previously featured guests including Ed Byrne, Richard Herring, Dolly Alderton, Brett Goldstein, Lou Sanders, Marcus Brigstocke, Rachel Parris, Zoe Lyons, Sindhu Vee, Jordan Gray, Ayesha Hazarika and Shappi Khorsandi. The show was nominated for both a British Podcast Award and an Independent Podcast Award in 2023 and has been praised by The Observer, Metro, Psychologies, Sunday Times, Chortle, Time Out and Radio 4. The Breakup Monologues is now also available as a book, published globally by Bloomsbury and recently out in a dinky new paperback edition.