AMPLIFYING QUEER VOICES
Peyton Bigora What started as simple conversations between a couple has grown into a platform with over 30,000 monthly listeners in 118 countries, a successful blog, and a published selfreflective journal furthering the voices of women, the queer community and anyone represented through feminism. This is SHE, a podcast for the non-traditional. An acronym for Shifting Her Experience, SHE was founded by engaged couple Sophie Dunne, 26, and Tiana DeNicola, 27, from their Los Angeles home in early 2020.
“Both of us have experienced the things that we’ve talked about in each episode and if we have not experienced them and we want to educate ourselves more, we bring on a guest who can best speak to that experience,” Dunne said. Having featured guest speakers gave Dunne and DeNicola the confidence to continue pushing conversations even if they couldn’t speak to them personally. Episodes have featured women in the adult entertainment industry, a friend of theirs who is non-binary, and they are currently working towards hosting a transgender man to speak to their experience.
The pair saw an opportunity to create a brand that was geared towards having unconventional conversations mainly surrounding the female and LGBTQ+ experiences amongst “We don’t just have anybody on,” DeNicola said. “We want other topics they felt society wasn’t necessarily talking about. somebody that is perfect for the topic, is open and willing and educated on speaking about them.” “And who will do their peers justice,” Dunne continued.
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Dunne and DeNicola have traveled the globe, are in a healthy, committed relationship, and approach all of their topics with a critical eye and tons of research, allowing them to feel qualified to speak on a number of women’s issues as well as the LGBTQ+ community from an intellectual and personal perspective.
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Dunne and DeNicola
