DIVA editor, Agony Aunt and psychotherapist Jane has written and curated a number of features and debates about aspects of lesbian/queer cultures and is interested in how desire is communicated through shared media as well as how subjectivities meet and co-create unique narratives of desire.

Diane Torr is a performance artist whose work over the past 30 years focuses on re-inventing the narratives associated with sex and gender. She is known as a pioneer of female-to-male drag. Her book: Sex, Drag and Male Roles: Investigating Gender as Performance(2010) and co-authored by Stephen Bottoms is published by U. of Michigan Press.

A feature film about her work, Man For A Day by Berlin filmmaker Katarina Peters, premiered at the Berlinale Film Festival in February 2012 and is now on general release and touring.

Campbell X is the writer and director of the award-winning queer urban romcom Stud Life. The feature film explores, among other themes, gay male internet hook ups and cottaging, butch femme desire and BDSM lesbian sex. 

Campbell recently gave a talk at Homotopia  “Invasion of the Body Snatchers - Questions of Female Desire and the Colonized Female Body”, and was a juror for Outfest LGBT film festival in Los Angeles.

Raisa Kabir is a South Asian Queer femme in London who writes on the in/visibility of LBTQ women of colour.

She is a multi disciplinary artist and cultural activist, whose work examines the intersection of race, culture, gender and sexuality in relation to dress and space. Occupying the gap between theory and lived experience.

Writer and counsellor Alena Dierickx works with young women at risk of sexual exploitation and abuse and is particularly interested in exploring the liminal edges of desire, including sound and the intellect. 

Janet is a self-identified butch lesbian who was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis in her early 30's. Living with a deteriorating condition, she navigates losses of a changing body, whilst relearning the expression of sexual identity in an ableist, heteronormative world.She writes creatively and is currently studying for an MA in Creative Media.