‘The Ultimatum: Queer Love’ season 2 episodes 4-7 recap: “All there have been are sex playlists”

‘The Ultimatum: Queer Love’ season 2 episodes 4-7 recap: “All there have been are sex playlists”

Welcome back to Jess Ison's recap of The Ultimatum: Queer Love season 2, where there are sex playlists, açai bowls, and heart eyes aplenty.
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Trans identity, sex work and the AIDS crisis: Trans women in conversation

Trans identity, sex work and the AIDS crisis: Trans women in conversation

Two trans women share a lively discussion around culture, sex work, the AIDS crisis, gender and intersex identity.
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Being Maghrebi in France: Xenophobia and lost family history

Being Maghrebi in France: Xenophobia and lost family history

If I don’t avoid everything French, it feels like I’m endorsing the country that causes my communities so much misery.
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Nightlife as a queer Egyptian-Australian: Learning how to dance

Nightlife as a queer Egyptian-Australian: Learning how to dance

Meet Daniel Nour: Egyptian and Australian; loud and painfully awkward; conservative and very confused (especially about other boys).
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‘The Ultimatum: Queer Love’ season 2 episodes 1-3 recap: “I will run your food truck into the river”

‘The Ultimatum: Queer Love’ season 2 episodes 1-3 recap: “I will run your food truck into the river”

I am going to review The Ultimatum: Queer Love season 2. I must confess: I tried season one, and I lasted about half an episode before the extremely problematic behaviour was too much to...
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Decolonial portraiture by Kali Spitzer: Resilience and resistance

Decolonial portraiture by Kali Spitzer: Resilience and resistance

Decolonising portraiture offers empowerment and authentic self-expression for BIPOC and queer individuals.
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Queer Fashion Files: Dance Bigeni! at Australian Fashion Week

Queer Fashion Files: Dance Bigeni! at Australian Fashion Week

For this month’s Queer Fashion Files, we attend Australian Fashion Week and chat with designer Gary Bigeni.
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Sexual violence in sapphic spaces: It lives in your chest

Sexual violence in sapphic spaces: It lives in your chest

I thought I would be safe from the horrors of sexual violence in my queer feminist utopia. But it was within that sapphic bubble where I was assaulted.
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Queer woman looking to hire a sex worker: Phone-a-Dyke Episode 3

Queer woman looking to hire a sex worker: Phone-a-Dyke Episode 3

It's Phone-a-Dyke, Archer's queer advice column. Today's question: a queer woman is looking to hire a sex worker to explore her sexuality.
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Impostor syndrome is a colonial, patriarchal construct: On mediocrity and white supremacy

Impostor syndrome is a colonial, patriarchal construct: On mediocrity and white supremacy

Capitalism, neoliberalism and the myth of meritocracy fuel impostor syndrome by insisting that individuals alone are responsible for our success or failure. This is a lie.
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‘The Ultimatum: Queer Love’ finale & reunion recap: “Surprise, I’m gay, surprise!”

‘The Ultimatum: Queer Love’ finale & reunion recap: “Surprise, I’m gay, surprise!”

What a wild ride. Thanks for coming along for the journey with me. They better renew The Ultimatum: Queer Love or I’m rioting. I love gay people.
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‘The Ultimatum: Queer Love’ episodes 5-8 recap: “People just offer me unconditional love”

‘The Ultimatum: Queer Love’ episodes 5-8 recap: “People just offer me unconditional love”

Welcome to the recap of The Ultimatum: Queer Love episodes 5-8, where we learn that love is a lie, Lexi has a hot mum, the stereotype of lesbians saying "I love you" after 2.5...
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‘The Ultimatum: Queer Love’ episodes 1-4 recap: “I fingered you”

‘The Ultimatum: Queer Love’ episodes 1-4 recap: “I fingered you”

Four episodes drop at a time. I watched them all three glasses of boxed white wine deep, fresh from a devastating gay breakup and days after Taylor Swift surprise-dropped her saddest breakup song yet....
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Gloryholes and art institutions: On censorship, queerness and sex work

Gloryholes and art institutions: On censorship, queerness and sex work

As a trans Filipino sex worker, I’ve been using my gloryhole to create art with my clients, lovers and fellow sex workers.
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Archer Magazine #21: the ART issue

Archer Magazine #21: the ART issue

We're thrilled to welcome you to Archer Magazine #21: the ART issue. Join our launch event on 14 June 2025 at LCI Melbourne.
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Keith Haring’s legacy: Queer art, optimism and activism

Keith Haring’s legacy: Queer art, optimism and activism

The world-famous Keith Haring mural painted on an exterior wall of a school building in Collingwood, Melbourne, turned 40 years old last year.
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Cruising IRL: Off the apps and back to the beat

Cruising IRL: Off the apps and back to the beat

I’ve found there’s something beautifully democratic about traditional cruising – the darkness and anonymity working as great equalisers.
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Inexperienced queer seeks dating tips: Phone-a-Dyke Episode 2

Inexperienced queer seeks dating tips: Phone-a-Dyke Episode 2

Welcome back to Phone-a-Dyke, Archer's queer advice column. Today's question from SecretBabyGay: Any dating tips for inexperienced queers?
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A guide to Yarra River beats

A guide to Yarra River beats

A Guide to the Yarra River's Beats by Sam Wallman. Sam Wallman is a Melbourne-based cartoonist. He has published four books of drawings, in which he captures the ridiculous, the visceral and the personal...
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Josefine Aspvik’s creations are bold, genderless and speaking their minds

Josefine Aspvik’s creations are bold, genderless and speaking their minds

My characters are genderless, stunning creatures. They are not afraid to talk about what really needs to be talked about.
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Welcome back to Jess Ison’s recap of The Ultimatum: Queer Love season 2, where there are sex playlists, açai bowls, and heart eyes aplenty.

Decolonising portraiture offers empowerment and authentic self-expression for BIPOC and queer individuals.

I am going to review The Ultimatum: Queer Love season 2. I must confess: I tried season one, and I lasted about half an episode before the extremely problematic behaviour was too much to bear.

Capitalism, neoliberalism and the myth of meritocracy fuel impostor syndrome by insisting that individuals alone are responsible for our success or failure. This is a lie.

Romanticising uniquely ‘feminine’ ways of suffering is like plastering a Hello Kitty bandaid over a bruise.

Peek the brilliant photos from our Archer Studio launch party. Thank you for being so lovely and hot, everyone.

It’s Phone-a-Dyke, Archer’s queer advice column. Today’s question: a queer woman is looking to hire a sex worker to explore her sexuality.

For this month’s Queer Fashion Files, we attend Australian Fashion Week and chat with designer Gary Bigeni.

Meet Daniel Nour: Egyptian and Australian; loud and painfully awkward; conservative and very confused (especially about other boys).

I thought I would be safe from the horrors of sexual violence in my queer feminist utopia. But it was within that sapphic bubble where I was assaulted.

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