‘The Ultimatum: Queer Love’ season 2 episodes 8-10: “There’s a cat. Is that a bad sign?”

‘The Ultimatum: Queer Love’ season 2 episodes 8-10: “There’s a cat. Is that a bad sign?”

Welcome to the last instalment of The Ultimatum: Queer Love season 2. I feel dead inside.
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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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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 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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Coming out as disabled

Coming out as disabled

I'm repeatedly coming out as disabled so those around me know why I’m behaving a little differently, or why I’m not helping with the chairs.
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Romanticising women’s pain: On suffering, gender essentialism and TERFs

Romanticising women’s pain: On suffering, gender essentialism and TERFs

Romanticising uniquely ‘feminine’ ways of suffering is like plastering a Hello Kitty bandaid over a bruise.
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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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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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Archer Asks: Author Micaela Sahhar on memory, revenge and Palestinian legacies

Archer Asks: Author Micaela Sahhar on memory, revenge and Palestinian legacies

"We, the diaspora, are an important part of the work of liberation, alongside Palestinian people who remained." Micaela Sahhar chats to Alex Creece.
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Launch photos: Archer Studio + Archer Magazine #21: the ART issue

Launch photos: Archer Studio + Archer Magazine #21: the ART issue

Peek the brilliant photos from our Archer Studio launch party. Thank you for being so lovely and hot, everyone.
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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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Macho Sluts and Love Lies Bleeding: Patrick Califia’s lesbian erotic classic lives on

Macho Sluts and Love Lies Bleeding: Patrick Califia’s lesbian erotic classic lives on

I got my hands on Macho Sluts as a young dyke. Reading my way through my lover’s collection of erotic literature was an initiation of sorts.
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Crushes on straight men: Masc4masc and Troye Sivan

Crushes on straight men: Masc4masc and Troye Sivan

But why did I resonate so deeply with Troye Sivan’s fantasies? Why does the concept of hooking up with men who don’t identify as queer appeal so much to me?
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Fighting fatphobia in sapphic spaces: Give me a fat, anti-colonial baddie

Fighting fatphobia in sapphic spaces: Give me a fat, anti-colonial baddie

Let me say this for the record: people who hold and express fatphobic convictions may identify as queer, but they certainly are not embodying queerness.
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Lesbian music history: Searching for my mum’s long-lost record from 1993

Lesbian music history: Searching for my mum’s long-lost record from 1993

In 1993, my mum recorded an album, Sung in my Lover's Bedroom, a collection of tracks that were explicit acts of feminist & lesbian activism.
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Porn, queerness and moral panic: The new old sex wars

Porn, queerness and moral panic: The new old sex wars

Anti-porn sentiment isn't new, but this current wave has created a platform for new puritans, reminiscent of other moral panics.
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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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Sex, fatness and overcoming shame

Sex, fatness and overcoming shame

As Victoria talked more openly to peers about sex, her interest in it and its relationship to fatness grew.
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Trans people in prison: The need for liberation and community care

Trans people in prison: The need for liberation and community care

When you’re a trans person who is criminalised, you are minority in a minority. Unfortunately, we end up in prison a lot of the time because of the way we are treated by society.
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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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‘The Ultimatum: Queer Love’ season 2 episodes 8-10: “There’s a cat. Is that a bad sign?”

By: Jess Ison

Welcome to the last instalment of The Ultimatum: Queer Love season 2. I feel dead inside.

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

By: Archer Magazine

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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Decolonial portraiture by Kali Spitzer: Resilience and resistance

By: Kali Spitzer

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

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

By: Jess Ison

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.

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

By: Pep Phelan and Olivia Meyers

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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Romanticising women’s pain: On suffering, gender essentialism and TERFs

By: Jaya Kortegast

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

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Launch photos: Archer Studio + Archer Magazine #21: the ART issue

By: Archer Magazine

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

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

By: Archer Magazine

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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Queer Fashion Files: Dance Bigeni! at Australian Fashion Week

By: Hailey Moroney

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

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

By: Daniel Nour

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

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