The Lesbian Breakup Podcast

In this week’s episode, hosts Elina Street and Zara Barrie are joined by Elina’s best friend, the one and only award-winning writer-director Erica Rose. Erica and Elina also co-created the Emmy and GLAAD Media Award-winning docuseries The Lesbian Bar Project . What was supposed to be a breakdown of breakup scenes in lesbian film turns into something way better: a deeply honest, hilarious, and movi...

This week on The Lesbian Breakup Podcast, Zara and Elina are joined by writer, professor, former podcast co-host, and Zara’s platonic life partner, dayna troisi . What begins with tube-top-gate (it was actually underwear), giant strap-ons, failed threesomes, and lesbian chaos quickly becomes something much deeper: a conversation about friendship, divorce, self-medicating, codependency, chosen fami...

Happy Pride, darlings. In this Pride Month special, Zara Barrie and Elina Street swap cautionary tales from Prides past, including breakup relapses, ex-girlfriend run-ins, disastrous fashion choices, and questionable rainbow accessories. Along the way, they discuss the emotional chaos of Pride, the unique experience of seeing exes in the wild, why Brooklyn and Manhattan lesbians can sometimes be w...

Welcome to episode 9 of The Lesbian Breakup Podcast. This week, after emotionally detonating ourselves in last episode’s grief spiral , we decided to offer both you AND ourselves a tiny reprieve. So naturally, we did the only logical thing: rank the formative gay experiences that turned us into lesbians. From Cleopatra to Gia, summer camp intensity to devastating dark friendship betrayals, France...

Co-hosts Elina Street and Zara Barrie are *finally* back together and feeling it all… What happens when grief becomes a privilege? On this week’s episode, recorded on Zara’s 40th birthday , we get deep on grief, loss, and the unexpected clarity that comes after everything burns down. Zara opens up about what it meant to be a full-time caretaker for her mother, the surreal “business of death” that...

In this raw, unfiltered episode, Emmy-winning director and co-host Elina opens up about navigating rejection (professional and romantic), writing a love letter that never arrived, and why she’s still hung up on someone she probably shouldn’t be. But this isn’t a spiral, it’s a Virgo’s dream, a well thought-out list that will especially help if you’re currently healing from a situationship. Elina b...

This week, we’re breaking the format. It’s your Lesbian Breakup Podcast cohost, Zara Barrie and I’m going solo for an intimate, no-filter episode. But *don’t* worry, the brilliant and enigmatic Elina Street will be back next week. In this episode, I open up about what it’s been like caretaking for my mother in the final stages of hospice, and how living this close to loss has completely reshaped t...

This week, Zara Barrie and Elina Street take you on a wild adventure into the glittery institutions that raised us: the lesbian bars of New York and Los Angeles. From Zara sneaking into The Abbey at 18 in full Lindsay Lohan cosplay to Elina walking alone into Cubbyhole and getting waterboarded by a blunt New Jersey lesbian asking, “What’s your deal?”—this episode is a true love letter to the space...

#4: Some people grow up with SCIENTIFIC sex education. Charts. Condoms on bananas. Clinical vocabulary lectured by an awkward gym teacher who is clearly DYING inside. Cohost Zara Barrie grew up with something else entirely: “KITCHEN TABLE SEX EDUCATION.” Which is what happens when you’re the youngest child in a house where chatty adults openly debate LOVE, SEX, AFFAIRS, HEARTBREAK, and TERRIBLE ME...

Episode three of The Lesbian Breakup Podcast explores what happens when real life crashes into your love life. From themes of grief, hospice, to bad timing, Zara and Elina still find a way to weave in stories about getting the ick or faking orgasms. And of course, the terrifying concept of pressing PAUSE instead of BREAKUP Zara opens up about being in anticipatory grief while caring for her mother...

In Episode 2 of The Lesbian Breakup Podcast , Zara Barrie and Elina Street return to talk about what happens after a breakup when the story is still unfolding in real time. They discuss making a podcast while exes may be listening, the risks of telling the truth publicly, and the boundaries required to heal after queer relationships. The conversation also explores a rarely discussed topic in the L...

Welcome to Episode One of The Lesbian Breakup Podcast, a new podcast unpacking lesbian breakups, heartbreak, and the subsequent breakthroughs that follow. In this first episode, co-hosts Elina Street and Zara Barrie go straight into the deep end, unpacking their most recent breakups and what actually happens after queer love ends. From breakup sex to the early stages of healing, they talk candidly...