Transfeminine in Singapore: A love-hate relationship with my home country

Transfeminine in Singapore: A love-hate relationship with my home country

But is Singaporean culture not also other trans Singaporeans? The transfemmes I’ve spoken to, gotten advice from online?
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Are transmascs allowed in lesbian spaces? Phone-a-Dyke Episode 7

Are transmascs allowed in lesbian spaces? Phone-a-Dyke Episode 7

It's Phone-a-Dyke, Archer's queer advice column. Today's reader: I'm transmasc, am I welcome at the dyke events?
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Trans mythology, sissification and cruising: Our editors’ top picks for 2025

Trans mythology, sissification and cruising: Our editors’ top picks for 2025

From sissification to trans mythology, impostor syndrome to werewolves, cruising, and much more, these are the online editors' top picks of 2025.
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Chosen names, affect and identity: A rose by any other name

Chosen names, affect and identity: A rose by any other name

Chosen names offer a synthesis of literary and psychoanalytic analysis. When you choose a name, it is imbued with references, history and storytelling.
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Do not travel, and other great advice: Travelling as an autistic trans person

Do not travel, and other great advice: Travelling as an autistic trans person

Since coming out as trans, I find myself suddenly scared of traversing the sorts of barriers I was crossing solo at 14, 15, 16 years old.
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Voice changes on testosterone: A homecoming through music

Voice changes on testosterone: A homecoming through music

Once I started taking testosterone, I made an album that documented the way my voice changed.
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Transition, culture and ritualistic death as a Blak trans woman

Transition, culture and ritualistic death as a Blak trans woman

My family only really knows the old me, holding onto a dead man's name – and I use the word “dead” as a trans woman. But I have been able to heal and grow as...
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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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Trans people in prison: The need for liberation and community care

Trans people in prison: The need for liberation and community care

When you’re a trans person who is criminalised, you are minority in a minority. Unfortunately, we end up in prison a lot of the time because of the way we are treated by society.
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Sissification from a transfemme Domme: Safe forced feminisation

Sissification from a transfemme Domme: Safe forced feminisation

This is an alternative to sissification or forced feminisation: the sub is feminised as part of the session, but not mocked for it.
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Archer Asks: Author and actor Zoe Terakes on horny trans myths

Archer Asks: Author and actor Zoe Terakes on horny trans myths

"Nature depends on transness – we see it in mycology, fungi, plant life, fish and hyenas." Zoe Terakes chats to Alex Creece.
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Archer Asks: Mx Yaffa, Palestinian poet, activist and organiser

Archer Asks: Mx Yaffa, Palestinian poet, activist and organiser

"The work to build a collectively liberated world is always going to be easier than living in this current – really oppressive – fascistic world." Mx Yaffa chats to Anna Hu.
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Becoming a werewolf on testosterone: Hangry, hairy and horny

Becoming a werewolf on testosterone: Hangry, hairy and horny

If I must be a werewolf, I choose to be a wulver instead of a luchthonn. No amount of family history or testosterone will dictate who I can be.
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A lesbian and a non-binary bisexual in love: On language and queer solidarity

A lesbian and a non-binary bisexual in love: On language and queer solidarity

I want us to reclaim lesbianism from the clammy hands of TERFs. Being a lesbian isn’t about vaginas, femininity, ‘gold stars’ or exclusion.
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Zinaida Gippius’ queer allegories: Trans mermaids in Russian literature

Zinaida Gippius’ queer allegories: Trans mermaids in Russian literature

Zinaida Gippius lived a rather queer life – between their affairs with women, highly publicised threesomes, cross-dressing, and more.
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Trans people and 1980s psychiatry: Psych wounds and resistance

Trans people and 1980s psychiatry: Psych wounds and resistance

Living through coercive treatment, the AIDS crisis and homelessness, this author continues to survive the trauma of the psychiatric system.
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Trans sex and storytelling: The anatomy of a trans sex scene

Trans sex and storytelling: The anatomy of a trans sex scene

I write like all the sex I’ve had is happening now. This is the anatomy of a trans sex scene: ‘now’ is never just now.
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Trans identity, sex work and the AIDS crisis: Trans women in conversation

Trans identity, sex work and the AIDS crisis: Trans women in conversation

Two trans women share a lively discussion around culture, sex work, the AIDS crisis, gender and intersex identity.
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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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Queer and trans improv comedy: Playing with gender

Queer and trans improv comedy: Playing with gender

Almost immediately, improv had become the most powerful tool I had for exploring and affirming my gender expression.
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But is Singaporean culture not also other trans Singaporeans? The transfemmes I’ve spoken to, gotten advice from online?

“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.

Then, a friend posed a question I had been rubbing against this whole while: is non-monogamy something I do, or is it part of my identity?

It’s Phone-a-Dyke, Archer’s queer advice column. Today’s reader: I’m transmasc, am I welcome at the dyke events?

“We knew what men of the time wanted and how they wanted it, and we gave it to them in spades.” Ülo Klemmer chats to Laura Castagnini.

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.

Mortality, ageing and accepting death

Could we stop seeing death as a failure? My death will happen. Like the piglet’s, my dead body will disintegrate.

We tend to think of digital interactions as ephemeral because we can’t hold them like letters, and can’t feel the weight of a photo album in gigabytes.

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.

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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