Archer Asks: Jimi The Kween on mixtapes, horny ratbags and crunchy drag

Archer Asks: Jimi The Kween on mixtapes, horny ratbags and crunchy drag

"My music has some serious perspectives, but the through line and the outlet is the party, baby!" Jimi The Kween chats to Archer Magazine.
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Archer Asks: Author Andy Jackson on crip poetics

Archer Asks: Author Andy Jackson on crip poetics

"I always feel like poetry is the most intimate literary form there is." Andy Jackson chats to Alex Creece.
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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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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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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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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: 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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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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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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Archer Asks: Travis Alabanza on trans resistance, queer liberation and making political art

Archer Asks: Travis Alabanza on trans resistance, queer liberation and making political art

I want a world where all people, but particularly those most marginalised, get to do what they want to do and be supported in it. It’s as simple as that, really.
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Archer Asks: Swsh on queer creativity and making music for trans people

Archer Asks: Swsh on queer creativity and making music for trans people

Alice Vyvyan-Jones spoke to LA-based artist Swsh about safe spaces, queer creative communities, and making work through identity, desire and growing confidence. 
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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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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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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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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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