Roxy Bourdillon

with Rosie Wilby in collaboration with the Breakup Monologues podcast

Wednesday 30th April at 7pm

Ropetackle Arts Centre

Tickets are £12.00

A gorgeous nostalgia-drenched coming-of-age memoir by the editor of ‘DIVA’

I am 13 years old and here are my secrets:

1    I have a crush on Jet from ITV gameshow Gladiators. So Strong! So pretty!
2    I still play with Barbie dolls. It’s mostly making them scissor. Or snog. Or lie on top of each other with feeling.
3    I just kissed my best friend. Spoiler alert: she’s a girl.

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 cat-called, anyone who's despaired about their body, fallen in love, had their heart broken and found friends who can put it back together.

From overcoming shame and finding your tribe, to surviving the dating scene and learning to really express yourself, this is a book about joy, empowerment and freedom.

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.
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.