Shaving my head as a queer person: Gender and growing pains

Shaving my head as a queer person: Gender and growing pains

I think I knew deep down that if I shaved my head, it would be curtain call for Straight Girl.
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Archer Asks: Essayist and critic Cher Tan on weirdness, hyperreality and capitalism

Archer Asks: Essayist and critic Cher Tan on weirdness, hyperreality and capitalism

"If we were to jointly refuse normalisation, then there’d be no outsiders." Cher Tan chats to Archer Magazine about her debut book, 'Peripathetic: Notes on (un)belonging'.
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Beauty, family history and Chinese diaspora: Returning home

Beauty, family history and Chinese diaspora: Returning home

My sense of beauty remains hazy, haunted by the spectre of revolutionary China: a world I know intimately and yet not at all.
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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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Being Maghrebi in France: Xenophobia and lost family history

Being Maghrebi in France: Xenophobia and lost family history

If I don’t avoid everything French, it feels like I’m endorsing the country that causes my communities so much misery.
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Blak sovereignty, the Matildas and queer polyamorous parenting: Our editors’ top picks for 2023

Blak sovereignty, the Matildas and queer polyamorous parenting: Our editors’ top picks for 2023

From Progress Shark to lesbian literature, activism to polyamory and so much more, here are Archer Magazine's editors' top picks for 2023.
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Archer Asks: Mo’Ju on their latest album Oro, Plata, Mata

Archer Asks: Mo’Ju on their latest album Oro, Plata, Mata

Mo'Ju has amassed critical, commercial and cultural influence. Their latest album Oro, Plata, Mata was released in March 2023.
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Justin Bieber and my trans masculinity

Justin Bieber and my trans masculinity

I grew up as two things: a closeted queer and a closeted Justin Bieber fan. Just like any other girl in my year seven English class, I was writing ‘JB’ over and over again...
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Cry Club is creating a queer space for you to be whoever you want to be

Cry Club is creating a queer space for you to be whoever you want to be

Cry Club are not interested in doing anything other than chasing joy. They refuse to limit themselves, or be reduced to one genre or box. It’s an inherently queer philosophy.
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Trans rage, metal and music: What is the trans ‘sound’?

Trans rage, metal and music: What is the trans ‘sound’?

Uboa and Liturgy’s music acknowledges the trans rage of disempowerment, and how unleashing that rage can create a sense of self-affirmation.
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Mimi Zhu on chosen family and healing: Be Not Afraid of Love

Mimi Zhu on chosen family and healing: Be Not Afraid of Love

Finding people who honor your full self is not easy, but when you do, you have begun relearning love, you have found chosen family.
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Queer horror, Tori Amos and the sex work community: Our editors’ top picks for 2022

Queer horror, Tori Amos and the sex work community: Our editors’ top picks for 2022

As 2022 comes to a close, we can’t help but get reflective and sentimental – cue the smiling single tear emoji – about all the wonderful articles we’ve edited this year.
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The most read pieces of 2022: Trans sex, bisexual joy and purity culture

The most read pieces of 2022: Trans sex, bisexual joy and purity culture

From trans sex to bisexual pride, here are our most read online pieces of 2022.
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Blak, bi and not a guy: On intersecting identities

Blak, bi and not a guy: On intersecting identities

Being bisexual, just like being a blakfulla, became a solid constant of my identity. Unshakable and unquestionable by those outside of myself.
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Mixed-race erasure and racism: Are we ready to talk about brown-skinned experiences?

Mixed-race erasure and racism: Are we ready to talk about brown-skinned experiences?

Even today, decades after September 11 kicked off the profiling of Middle Easterners in the Western world, I question if I have the ‘unsafe’ kind of brown skin.
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Bisexual pride: How to thrive as a bi+ person

Bisexual pride: How to thrive as a bi+ person

Delsi Cat shares her top tips for cultivating bisexual pride and celebrating your bi+ identity.
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Courage and queerness: On learning bravery from each other

Courage and queerness: On learning bravery from each other

I came out almost 40 years ago. Bearing witness to the courage of queer folk has been a constant and abiding feature of my life.
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The Dreamlife of Georgie Stone: On activism, trans rights and representation

The Dreamlife of Georgie Stone: On activism, trans rights and representation

From the very beginning, The Dreamlife of Georgie Stone offers warmly murmured answers to all the whataboutisms that pepper discourse around trans children.
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Deafness and dance: Q&A with Elvin Lam

Deafness and dance: Q&A with Elvin Lam

As a Deaf person, movement is such a huge part of my life. I guess I’ve needed to explore more about how dance is connected to Deafness, and how dance is connected to body...
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Agender and agnostic: On non-binary and spiritual identity

Agender and agnostic: On non-binary and spiritual identity

I draw parallels between being agnostic and agender: both are non-binary. I feel my agnosticism is my non-binary nature manifest spiritually.
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Cruising IRL: Off the apps and back to the beat

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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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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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Inexperienced queer seeks dating tips: Phone-a-Dyke Episode 2

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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

By: Patruni Sastry

There was a sense of danger and adventure in leaving the house as a queer drag queen, heading to a flower market in Hyderabad.

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Archer Asks: Author Kaya Ortiz on queer Filipino poetics, pop culture and being alien

By: Alex Creece

“These poems are really just owning my different identities – Filipino, lesbian, queer – without shame.” Kaya Ortiz chats with Alex Creece.

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Archer Magazine #21: the ART issue

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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: Author Micaela Sahhar on memory, revenge and Palestinian legacies

By: Alex Creece

“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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Celebrate the launch of Archer Studio + Archer Magazine #21: the ART issue

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Come and join us as we celebrate the launch of Archer Studio, and the release of Archer Magazine #21: the ART issue.

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Queer Fashion Files: Interview with ace icon Allie Daisy King

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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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Welcome to Phone-a-Dyke, Archer’s new queer advice column. Today’s question: Are socks lesbian culture?

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