Archer Asks: MUNA on astrology, queer-coded cartoons and sad dance bangers

Archer Asks: MUNA on astrology, queer-coded cartoons and sad dance bangers

MUNA spoke to Archer Magazine about their astrological charts, Meg from Hercules being bisexual and making sad music with thumping basslines.
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Archer Asks: Alvin Quah on cultural storytelling, queer villainy and reality TV

Archer Asks: Alvin Quah on cultural storytelling, queer villainy and reality TV

"You can't always talk about where you're from, but you can cook it." Alvin Quah chats to Alex Creece.
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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: The Beaches on Aries rage, ‘Silver Springs’ and making music out of breakup gossip

Archer Asks: The Beaches on Aries rage, ‘Silver Springs’ and making music out of breakup gossip

Archer Magazine chatted to The Beaches about their new single with G Flip, about rage in music and queer visibility.
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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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Badass female video game characters for the gays: Playing like a girl

Badass female video game characters for the gays: Playing like a girl

So what was it about these digital divas that enraptured my little gay mind – and over a smorgasbord of hunks no less?
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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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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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Twilight’s queer renaissance: Sparkly vampires, lust and Kristen Stewart

Twilight’s queer renaissance: Sparkly vampires, lust and Kristen Stewart

The recent ‘Twilight Renaissance’, as coined by online communities, has seen a queering of the text that was not the author’s intention.
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Polybaiting in media: The fear of queer possibilities

Polybaiting in media: The fear of queer possibilities

Look, I don’t need every movie to turn into a polyamorous group hug. But I do need creators to stop pretending like we’re not all seeing what we’re seeing.
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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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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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‘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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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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MUNA spoke to Archer Magazine about their astrological charts, Meg from Hercules being bisexual and making sad music with thumping basslines.

I found myself navigating two kinds of code-switching simultaneously: adjusting for culture at work, and adjusting for identity almost everywhere else.

It’s Phone-a-Dyke, Archer’s queer advice column. Today’s reader is having a quite unpleasant butch-femme conversation with a friend.

The labels of ‘mother’ and ‘doll’ arose from Black and Latina trans women’s will to survive. It’s our responsibility to regard these roots with respect.

“Leatherdyke culture really came out of the sex wars, on the more positive side of sex work and kink exploring,” Rowan tells me.

Perhaps it’s for this reason that many people who were raised Catholic – including LGBTQIA+ folks – explore or connect so deeply with kink culture, where spiritual masochism yields sexual gratification.

“You can’t always talk about where you’re from, but you can cook it.” Alvin Quah chats to Alex Creece.

It’s Phone-a-Dyke, Archer’s queer advice column. Today’s reader needs advice making queer friends in a new city they’re finding cliquey.

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.

As part of the disabled community myself, I feel strongly that I’m not a hero for being a carer. I’m just a person who’s doing what I feel is right.

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