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Romanticising women’s pain: On suffering, gender essentialism and TERFs
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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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Launch photos: Archer Studio + Archer Magazine #21: the ART issue
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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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Queer woman looking to hire a sex worker: Phone-a-Dyke Episode 3
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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...
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Queer Fashion Files: Dance Bigeni! at Australian Fashion Week
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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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Nightlife as a queer Egyptian-Australian: Learning how to dance
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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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Sexual violence in sapphic spaces: It lives in your chest
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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...
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Trans identity, sex work and the AIDS crisis: Trans women in conversation
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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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Cruising IRL: Off the apps and back to the beat
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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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Keith Haring’s legacy: Queer art, optimism and activism
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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...
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Inexperienced queer seeks dating tips: Phone-a-Dyke Episode 2
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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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Drag and flowers in Hyderabad: ‘Mandakini’ photo series
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Drag and flowers in Hyderabad: ‘Mandakini’ photo series

There was a sense of danger and adventure in leaving the house as a queer drag queen, heading to a...
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Archer Asks: Author Kaya Ortiz on queer Filipino poetics, pop culture and being alien
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Archer Asks: Author Kaya Ortiz on queer Filipino poetics, pop culture and being alien

"These poems are really just owning my different identities – Filipino, lesbian, queer – without shame." Kaya Ortiz chats with...
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Archer Magazine #21: the ART issue
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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...
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Archer Asks: Author Micaela Sahhar on memory, revenge and Palestinian legacies
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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...
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Celebrate the launch of Archer Studio + Archer Magazine #21: the ART issue
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Celebrate the launch of Archer Studio + Archer Magazine #21: the ART issue

Come and join us as we celebrate the launch of Archer Studio, and the release of Archer Magazine #21: the...
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Queer Fashion Files: Interview with ace icon Allie Daisy King
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Queer Fashion Files: Interview with ace icon Allie Daisy King

For this month’s Queer Fashion Files, we’re featuring content creator and ace icon Allie Daisy King.
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Are socks lesbian culture? Phone-a-Dyke Episode 1
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Are socks lesbian culture? Phone-a-Dyke Episode 1

Welcome to Phone-a-Dyke, Archer's new queer advice column. Today's question: Are socks lesbian culture?
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Queer-affirming death spaces: The bones of my death work
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Queer-affirming death spaces: The bones of my death work

Advocating for queer-affirming death spaces – and creative ways of navigating grief – have empowered this author since leaving a...
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Queer femininity: On sapphic fashion, Tradwife aesthetics and femme identity
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Queer femininity: On sapphic fashion, Tradwife aesthetics and femme identity

Who gets to decide what is masculine and what is feminine? What if I said that frogs were feminine? That...
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Queer history of Sydney: Reflections from a gay tour guide
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Queer history of Sydney: Reflections from a gay tour guide

The Archibald Fountain has a hidden history as a beat. The goal of my walking tours is to make this,...
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