‘The Ultimatum: Queer Love’ season 2 episodes 8-10: “There’s a cat. Is that a bad sign?”

‘The Ultimatum: Queer Love’ season 2 episodes 8-10: “There’s a cat. Is that a bad sign?”

Welcome to the last instalment of The Ultimatum: Queer Love season 2. I feel dead inside.
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‘The Ultimatum: Queer Love’ finale & reunion recap: “Surprise, I’m gay, surprise!”

‘The Ultimatum: Queer Love’ finale & reunion recap: “Surprise, I’m gay, surprise!”

What a wild ride. Thanks for coming along for the journey with me. They better renew The Ultimatum: Queer Love or I’m rioting. I love gay people.
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‘The Ultimatum: Queer Love’ episodes 5-8 recap: “People just offer me unconditional love”

‘The Ultimatum: Queer Love’ episodes 5-8 recap: “People just offer me unconditional love”

Welcome to the recap of The Ultimatum: Queer Love episodes 5-8, where we learn that love is a lie, Lexi has a hot mum, the stereotype of lesbians saying "I love you" after 2.5...
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‘The Ultimatum: Queer Love’ episodes 1-4 recap: “I fingered you”

‘The Ultimatum: Queer Love’ episodes 1-4 recap: “I fingered you”

Four episodes drop at a time. I watched them all three glasses of boxed white wine deep, fresh from a devastating gay breakup and days after Taylor Swift surprise-dropped her saddest breakup song yet....
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A guide to Yarra River beats

A guide to Yarra River beats

A Guide to the Yarra River's Beats by Sam Wallman. Sam Wallman is a Melbourne-based cartoonist. He has published four books of drawings, in which he captures the ridiculous, the visceral and the personal...
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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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Archer Asks: Riot grrrl Kathleen Hanna on sexuality, marriage and music

Archer Asks: Riot grrrl Kathleen Hanna on sexuality, marriage and music

"I wanted to know what I was besides a sick person. Every time I play music, I’m like, this is really who I am." Kathleen Hanna chats to Archer Magazine.
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Celebrate the launch of Archer Magazine – The DISABILITIES issue

Celebrate the launch of Archer Magazine – The DISABILITIES issue

Archer Magazine Issue #16 will curate stories, images and art about sex, gender and identity by people with disabilities and/or chronic illnesses.
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Archer’s MQFF picks: Traversing gender, sexuality and disability on the big screen

Archer’s MQFF picks: Traversing gender, sexuality and disability on the big screen

Deciding which films to attend with the myriad on offer at this year's Melbourne Queer Film Festival? Don't stress – we've made this painstaking task easy.
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Brisbane Queer Film Festival 2017: Our must-see picks

Brisbane Queer Film Festival 2017: Our must-see picks

With an eclectic and exciting mix of genres and cultural perspectives, this year’s Brisbane Queer Film Festival offers viewers insight into queer and trans identities, narratives and communities from across Australia and the world....
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Archer Asks: Janet Anderson and Thea Raveneau, stars of all-trans theatre production ‘Overflow’

Archer Asks: Janet Anderson and Thea Raveneau, stars of all-trans theatre production ‘Overflow’

'Overflow' is a hilarious and devastating tour of women's bathrooms, who is allowed in and who is kept out.
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Sensation and stereotypes: ABC’s Carlotta

Sensation and stereotypes: ABC’s Carlotta

Airing on the ABC last month, Carlotta takes us on the journey of Carol Lee, an Australian icon.
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Q&A with intimate photographers, Constance and Eric

Q&A with intimate photographers, Constance and Eric

Constance and Eric are a US based photography duo who take intimate portraits of couples, groups, and individuals.
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Image Essay: ‘Shared House’ by Charlie Brophy

Image Essay: ‘Shared House’ by Charlie Brophy

In this photo essay, photographer Charlie Brophy captures the youthful characters and playful antics of her first forays into sharehouse living.  There was a sense of youthful innocence in most of the sharehouses I entered...
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Image Essay: ‘For the Love of Hair’ by Leila Koren

Image Essay: ‘For the Love of Hair’ by Leila Koren

Photographer Leila Koren explores people's relationships with their body hair.
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Trans visibility, Safe Schools and living vulnerable: fighting back against the demonising of Transgender people

Trans visibility, Safe Schools and living vulnerable: fighting back against the demonising of Transgender people

Today is Transgender Day of Visibility. It is a day that celebrates or makes prominent something in the public mind. For a day.
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“When are you going to stop writing about [Insert issue]?” An author’s guide to writing about your own oppression, part two

“When are you going to stop writing about [Insert issue]?” An author’s guide to writing about your own oppression, part two

Charles O'Grady shares his lessons on writing about your own oppression.
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“When are you going to stop writing about [insert issue]?” – an author’s guide to writing about your own oppression

“When are you going to stop writing about [insert issue]?” – an author’s guide to writing about your own oppression

Charles O'Grady shares his lessons on writing about your own oppression.
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Come as you are: When sexuality isn’t used to define queer TV characters

Come as you are: When sexuality isn’t used to define queer TV characters

Writer/Director ­Julie Kalceff ­has created a world where intense, emotional and intimate relationships between lesbians are explored without using sexuality in a dramatic way to drive the narrative.
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Under the [book] covers: Doing lesbian fiction right

Under the [book] covers: Doing lesbian fiction right

Popular TV is now littered with lesbians: Orphan Black, The L Word, Sugar Rush, Lip Service, Lost Girl, Glee... need I go on? Cheesy or not, we’re out there in prime time. What draws...
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