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DIVA About Us

DIVA History

 

DIVA was first published in March 1994 and remains the only monthly glossy newsstand magazine for lesbians and bi women in the UK.

 

The DIVA MISSION

 

DIVA aims to deliver the best information, inspiration and online shopping to lesbians everywhere! We aim to provide excellence in innovation, information and entertainment for all our customers, and to make them feel individually special, and connected to our wider community. We provide the highest-quality magazine, retail experience and web presence possible for gay women and are dedicated to creating and evolving a magazine and a community to be proud of.

 

DIVA Meet The Team

Kim Watson is Publisher

Kim Watson is Publisher

Kim has been working at DIVA since its launch in 1994, starting on advertising sales, marketing and distribution. In 2010 she was promoted to Managing Director - Media & Marketing for Millivres Prowler Group, is also the publisher for DIVA and, in her spare time, acts as a business consultant for Still Waters Run Deep, a design and branding company.


Her first job in publishing was in 1986 as an editor's assistant for Pins and Needles magazine. She left to join The Times' and Sunday Times' ad department. Next stop was a three-and-a-half-year stint as advertising manager and then commercial director at the Pink Paper. She joined Millivres in 1994 to work on Gay Times and DIVA, and set up the company's marketing department.


A postgraduate in Digital Marketing, she's also a keen guitarist, footballer and skateboarder. Kim has also written short stories, features and reviews for DIVA and the Pink Paper. She and her partner have a young daughter.

email: kim@millivres.co.uk | direct line: 020 7424 7400

Jane Czyzselska is Editor

Jane Czyzselska is Editor

Jane has written for DIVA since 1994, and joined as its editor on April Fool's Day 2004. An auspicious day for her (it's her mum's birthday), she waved her freelance career as a journalist for The Times, the Independent and Horse & Hound goodbye. She loves: dancing to old school funk and disco, the smell of wet pinewood, babbling brooks, peak experiences, dirty electro, summer orchards, rock'n'roll, fresh blueberries in Greek yoghurt, Japanese tattoos, cycling through the centre of London at breakneck speed, 1970s Cutler and Gross specs, freedom-fighters, Mies Van der Rohe and Britt Ekland in The Wicker Man. She hates: racism, homophobia, transphobia, not being able to speak Spanish. Or ancient Greek. Pneumatic drills. And snobs.

email: edit@divamag.co.uk | direct line: 020 7424 7400

Louise Carolin is Deputy Editor

Louise Carolin is Deputy Editor

Louise has written for DIVA since 1994, and joined the staff in 2001. In the 1980s, she was a member of the collectives which produced the cult lesbian and gay magazines Shocking Pink and Square Peg. During a career best described as "chequered", she has also worked at the Lewisham Pizza Hut, Camberwell Music Library and Brixton Town Centre Management. She loves: pug dogs, 60s soul, the London Eye, red lipstick and her period. She hates: text speak and inconsiderate yobs who cycle on pavements.

email: louise@divamag.co.uk | direct line: 020 7424 7400

Eden Carter Wood is Senior Staff Writer

Eden Carter Wood is Senior Staff Writer

Eden joined DIVA in 2008, having previously worked in book publishing and as a teacher in Japan. She enjoys reading and writing fiction, and is DIVA's books and TV editor.

 

email: eden@divamag.co.uk | direct line: 020 7424 7400

Maggie Travers is Advertising manager

Maggie Travers is Advertising manager

As the Advertising Manager of DIVA since 1999, Maggie can only be described as the matriarch of the advertising hub. In her 12 years at MPG she has been witness to the changing face of the advertising industry, having seen income and pagination grow to its highest level in the last few years. New media and digital platforms such as social networking, apps and of course the new DIVA website will play a huge role in the future of advertising to the UK gay female market. And Maggie of course will be along for the ride!

email: advertising@divamag.co.uk | direct line: 020 7424 7400