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.
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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.
