Muslim Americans, mental health and police violence: Immigrant blood

Muslim Americans, mental health and police violence: Immigrant blood

From within the Muslim community I grew up in, I’ve heard phrases like, “What can a Western, non-Muslim therapist understand about our struggle?”
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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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Gay male spaces as a transmasc: Am I welcome? Phone-a-Dyke Episode 11

Gay male spaces as a transmasc: Am I welcome? Phone-a-Dyke Episode 11

It's Phone-a-Dyke, Archer's queer advice column. Today's reader is a transmasc person wondering how to navigate attending events for gay men.
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Palestinian resistance and liberation: We will not be defeated

Palestinian resistance and liberation: We will not be defeated

Free Palestine activists resist local forces of oppression, fascism and colonialism, mobilising and finding strength as a community.
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Archer Asks: Gavilán Rayna Russom on dungeons and dancefloors, S&M history, electro freakery and trans expression

Archer Asks: Gavilán Rayna Russom on dungeons and dancefloors, S&M history, electro freakery and trans expression

I started to think how that is the story that this album tells: how dancefloors and dungeon floors have this shared history.
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Transition, culture and ritualistic death as a Blak trans woman

Transition, culture and ritualistic death as a Blak trans woman

My family only really knows the old me, holding onto a dead man's name – and I use the word “dead” as a trans woman. But I have been able to heal and grow as...
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Beyond ‘ethical’ porn: On capitalism, sex work and authenticity

Beyond ‘ethical’ porn: On capitalism, sex work and authenticity

Desire often raises questions: is my desire for this – this thought, this act, this porn, this person – is this okay? Is this porn ethical?
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Beauty, family history and Chinese diaspora: Returning home

Beauty, family history and Chinese diaspora: Returning home

My sense of beauty remains hazy, haunted by the spectre of revolutionary China: a world I know intimately and yet not at all.
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Don’t call me mother: Divas, dolls and the archetypes of transfemininity

Don’t call me mother: Divas, dolls and the archetypes of transfemininity

The labels of 'mother' and 'doll' arose from Black and Latina trans women’s will to survive. It's our responsibility to regard these roots with respect.
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Queer rights in Africa: Fighting against anti-LGBTQI+ laws

Queer rights in Africa: Fighting against anti-LGBTQI+ laws

Even in African countries with slightly more favourable LGBTQI+ legislation, queer people are still subject to prejudice and violence.
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Police brutality and bigotry as a young Aboriginal person: I am not the problem

Police brutality and bigotry as a young Aboriginal person: I am not the problem

If you are an Aboriginal child whose parents have been criminalised, police officers see you as a criminal, too.
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Butch language, lineage and expansiveness: What is a butch?

Butch language, lineage and expansiveness: What is a butch?

The truth is, you can’t ask, "What makes someone butch?" without also asking what makes someone cis, trans or non-binary. The borders blur. The categories leak.
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Archer Asks: Courtney Barnett on searching for signs and being a Scorpio

Archer Asks: Courtney Barnett on searching for signs and being a Scorpio

Archer Magazine talks to Courtney Barnett about her new album 'Creature of Habit', listening to signs from the universe, and 'Shark Tank'.
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Dating as a queer, disabled and COVID-cautious person

Dating as a queer, disabled and COVID-cautious person

Before the COVID pandemic, I’d join a dating app and worry about whether I’d get any matches, or whether the picture of me in my wheelchair would scare people off.
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Queer Fashion Files: Interview with style and music icon Kaiit

Queer Fashion Files: Interview with style and music icon Kaiit

For this month’s Queer Fashion Files, we chat to legendary musician Kaiit about culture, fashion and the importance of caring (lots!).
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Asexuality and ambiguity: Coming to terms

Asexuality and ambiguity: Coming to terms

Asexuality normalises the breadth and depth of sexual and romantic possibility, acknowledging the ways that desire is complex and individual.
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Archer Asks: Artist Kwinana on art and activism for People With Albinism in South Africa

Archer Asks: Artist Kwinana on art and activism for People With Albinism in South Africa

I aspire for this exhibition to serve as a visual archive and a platform for dialogue, aiding future researchers and activists in challenging prevailing perceptions of Albinism in South Africa.
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Queer eroticism in Catholic iconography

Queer eroticism in Catholic iconography

For every queer Catholic kid raised to believe that other queer and trans people do not exist in the present, much less in the history of our Church, Catholic art history is a path...
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Black+White: Finding my sexuality in a 1990s fashion and art magazine

Black+White: Finding my sexuality in a 1990s fashion and art magazine

In Black+White, it was the tightly framed shots of intertwining limbs, bodies folded over, and skin upon skin that drew me in.
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Archer Asks: Poet Eileen Myles on pathetic literature, rescue dogs and puppetry

Archer Asks: Poet Eileen Myles on pathetic literature, rescue dogs and puppetry

"There's nothing more pathetic than being at a party, somebody asking what you do, and saying, 'I'm a poet.'" Eileen Myles chats with Alex Creece.
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I was working at a strip club, and the show was really borne out of the similarities between children and grown men – for example, not being able to keep their hands to themselves.

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It’s Phone-a-Dyke, Archer’s queer advice column. Today’s reader is a transmasc person wondering how to navigate attending events for gay men.

From within the Muslim community I grew up in, I’ve heard phrases like, “What can a Western, non-Muslim therapist understand about our struggle?”

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