Archer Asks: DJ Estée Louder on dancefloor politics, dyke history and dark club sounds

Archer Asks: DJ Estée Louder on dancefloor politics, dyke history and dark club sounds

DJ Estée Louder chats to Archer Magazine about dancefloor politics, queer electronica spaces and dyke history.
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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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Archer Asks: Mark Wilson and Tim Draxl on the enduring queer legacy of Tennessee Williams

Archer Asks: Mark Wilson and Tim Draxl on the enduring queer legacy of Tennessee Williams

Archer Magazine spoke to Melbourne Theatre Company about 'The Glass Menagerie' and the enduring queer legacy of Tennessee Williams.
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Queer Fashion Files: SLAMROSS1000 by Slam Ross

Queer Fashion Files: SLAMROSS1000 by Slam Ross

For this month’s Queer Fashion Files, we chat to fashionista Slam Ross about SLAMROSS100, her underground-inspired streetwear label and multi-dimensional art practice.
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Archer Asks: Karma Dance’s Govind Pillai on sensual divinity and dance-worship

Archer Asks: Karma Dance’s Govind Pillai on sensual divinity and dance-worship

"I don’t think questioning tradition is disrespectful. I think refusing to question it is far more dangerous." Karma Dance's Govind Pillai chats to Dhriti Gandham.
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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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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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A hip hop artist for marriage equality? Really?

A hip hop artist for marriage equality? Really?

Was this the anthem of sexual equality our generation needed to hear? Or was it the commercialisation of an issue wrapped in cotton wool and hand-delivered from the safety of a straight man's recording studio?...
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Archer Asks: Bangarra’s Daniel Mateo on Indigenous masculinities and the poetry of dance

Archer Asks: Bangarra’s Daniel Mateo on Indigenous masculinities and the poetry of dance

"We are of the land, and the land is of us, symbolising brown boys coming back to land as a way to find themselves." Daniel Mateo chats to Alex Creece.
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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 Fashion Files: ‘Visibility, Venus 8 and the Politics of Being Seen’ by Danielle Fitzgerald

Queer Fashion Files: ‘Visibility, Venus 8 and the Politics of Being Seen’ by Danielle Fitzgerald

For this month’s Queer Fashion Files, we chat to Danielle Fitzgerald about Venus 8, her project documenting the backstage worlds of dancers and sex workers.
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Queer Fashion Files: In the big apple with Sophie Kietzmann

Queer Fashion Files: In the big apple with Sophie Kietzmann

This month, we went to New York City and chatted to iconic queer photographer Sophie Kietzmann.
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Lesbian painting: Storytelling and reclamation through art

Lesbian painting: Storytelling and reclamation through art

Each portrait begins with a conversation. My subject and I talk about whatever they choose to share: love and loss, coming out, the journey toward self-acceptance and understanding.
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Compulsory heterosexuality in dance: Did the dance studio make me straight?

Compulsory heterosexuality in dance: Did the dance studio make me straight?

Did receiving praise for embodying gender norms and heterosexual narratives in dance manifest into falsely identifying as straight?
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Queer Fashion Files: In the big apple with Halle Robbe of Girls Carrying Shit

Queer Fashion Files: In the big apple with Halle Robbe of Girls Carrying Shit

This month, we went to New York City and chatted to founder of Girls Carrying Shit and editor-in-chief of 'pinky' the magazine, Halle Robbe.
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Archer Asks: Wet Leg’s Rhian Teasdale on queer yearning, feral lyrics and ‘Jennifer’s Body’

Archer Asks: Wet Leg’s Rhian Teasdale on queer yearning, feral lyrics and ‘Jennifer’s Body’

Ahead of their tour dates in so-called Australia, we chatted to Wet Leg's Rhian Teasdale about queer yearning, feral lyrics and eggs.
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Queer Fashion Files: In the big apple with Mercura NYC

Queer Fashion Files: In the big apple with Mercura NYC

This month, we went to New York City and chatted to sisters and eyewear icons Rachel Cohen-Lunning and Merrilee Lichtenstein Cohen, founders of Mercura NYC.
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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 Fashion Files: In the big apple with Kel Rakowski

Queer Fashion Files: In the big apple with Kel Rakowski

This month, we went to New York City and chatted to social media entrepreneur Kel Rakowski.
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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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DJ Estée Louder chats to Archer Magazine about dancefloor politics, queer electronica spaces and dyke history.

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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