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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Archer Asks: Buon-Cattivi Press on queer disability justice and creativity

Archer Asks: Buon-Cattivi Press on queer disability justice and creativity

"Our strength as queer, disabled people is our rage." We chat to the team behind Oh, How We Laughed*, an anthology by queer, disabled writers.
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Transness, disability and chronic pain: Inhabiting a body that resists

Transness, disability and chronic pain: Inhabiting a body that resists

Throughout the years, I have learned to love the parts of myself I was taught to hate. In my queer, trans and disabled body, I have found joy.
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