The most read pieces of 2025: Gloryholes, horse girls, neurodivergence and Palestinian legacies

The most read pieces of 2025: Gloryholes, horse girls, neurodivergence and Palestinian legacies

From sex work to straight boy crushes, neurodivergence to Palestinian literature, here are Archer Magazine's most read online pieces of 2025.
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Voice changes on testosterone: A homecoming through music

Voice changes on testosterone: A homecoming through music

Once I started taking testosterone, I made an album that documented the way my voice changed.
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Queer Fashion Files: ‘Jarrad Shot Me!’ by Jarrad Levy

Queer Fashion Files: ‘Jarrad Shot Me!’ by Jarrad Levy

For this month’s Queer Fashion Files, we chat to artist Jarrad Levy, known for his queer headshots and fetish photography.
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Queer Fashion Files: In the studio with DJ and musician Fresh Hex

Queer Fashion Files: In the studio with DJ and musician Fresh Hex

For this month’s Queer Fashion Files, we chat to superstar musician and DJ Fresh Hex.
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Archer Asks: Pulp author Monica Nolan on lesbian horse girls

Archer Asks: Pulp author Monica Nolan on lesbian horse girls

"The bond between girl and horse is more like the passionate friendship described in Victorian lesbian narratives." Monica Nolan chats to Alex Creece.
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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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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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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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Archer Asks: Mx Yaffa, Palestinian poet, activist and organiser

Archer Asks: Mx Yaffa, Palestinian poet, activist and organiser

"The work to build a collectively liberated world is always going to be easier than living in this current – really oppressive – fascistic world." Mx Yaffa chats to Anna Hu.
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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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Zinaida Gippius’ queer allegories: Trans mermaids in Russian literature

Zinaida Gippius’ queer allegories: Trans mermaids in Russian literature

Zinaida Gippius lived a rather queer life – between their affairs with women, highly publicised threesomes, cross-dressing, and more.
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Queer Fashion Files: Interview with polaroid photographer Gracie Steindl

Queer Fashion Files: Interview with polaroid photographer Gracie Steindl

For this month’s Queer Fashion Files, we chat to portrait and fashion photographer Gracie Steindl.
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Queer Fashion Files: ‘Parrhesia’ by Nicol & Ford

Queer Fashion Files: ‘Parrhesia’ by Nicol & Ford

For this month’s Queer Fashion Files, we’re featuring creative duo Nicol & Ford.
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Archer Asks: Musician Montaigne on fish as a queer metaphor

Archer Asks: Musician Montaigne on fish as a queer metaphor

"Fish felt like an apt metaphor for my own experience with being alive, for my relationship with my mum, for being queer." Montaigne chats to Alex Creece.
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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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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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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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Archer Asks: Graphic novelist Rachel Ang on desire and the changing body

Archer Asks: Graphic novelist Rachel Ang on desire and the changing body

"Sex is such an interesting mode of inquiry – a petri dish for gaining knowledge about ourselves and our lusts and limits in the world." Rachel Ang chats to Alex Creece.
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Queer and trans improv comedy: Playing with gender

Queer and trans improv comedy: Playing with gender

Almost immediately, improv had become the most powerful tool I had for exploring and affirming my gender expression.
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From sex work to straight boy crushes, neurodivergence to Palestinian literature, here are Archer Magazine’s most read online pieces of 2025.

Even though, deep down, I wanted to believe he would be okay with my HIV status if he truly understood that he was not at risk of infection, I feared rejection.

From sissification to trans mythology, impostor syndrome to werewolves, cruising, and much more, these are the online editors’ top picks of 2025.

“We need more stories written by sex workers for sex workers!” Momo Chavez chats to Archer Magazine.

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.

For this month’s Queer Fashion Files, we chat to artist Jarrad Levy, known for his queer headshots and fetish photography.

Chosen names offer a synthesis of literary and psychoanalytic analysis. When you choose a name, it is imbued with references, history and storytelling.

Since coming out as trans, I find myself suddenly scared of traversing the sorts of barriers I was crossing solo at 14, 15, 16 years old.

Shame can be a powerful emotion as a queer person. Recently, shame has centred around my high libido.

Once I started taking testosterone, I made an album that documented the way my voice changed.

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