Archer Asks: Author Bobuq Sayed on border violence, queer diaspora and liberation

Archer Asks: Author Bobuq Sayed on border violence, queer diaspora and liberation

"I try to convey the diverse reality and complexity of what queer and trans refugees and migrants experience, and not just some kumbaya fantasy of everyone sharing resources and taking care of each other."...
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Five steps to successful polyamory

Five steps to successful polyamory

SO YOU AND your squeeze have had the talk. You’ve decided to open up your relationship. Time to hit the local bar/kink party/games night, and soon you and your sweetie will be snuggling up...
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Single and non-monogamous: Is polyamory an identity or a lifestyle?

Single and non-monogamous: Is polyamory an identity or a lifestyle?

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?
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Queer love letters, memory and digital ephemera: Wildly constant signs

Queer love letters, memory and digital ephemera: Wildly constant signs

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.
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Inexperienced queer seeks dating tips: Phone-a-Dyke Episode 2

Inexperienced queer seeks dating tips: Phone-a-Dyke Episode 2

Welcome back to Phone-a-Dyke, Archer's queer advice column. Today's question from SecretBabyGay: Any dating tips for inexperienced queers?
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Queer intimacy and connection: ‘Finally the Sun’ photo series

Queer intimacy and connection: ‘Finally the Sun’ photo series

Olivia Mròz and Emma Osborne have created a body of work that captures the emotional depth and vulnerability of queer love.
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Archer Asks: Author Momo Chavez on writing sex work and strip club culture

Archer Asks: Author Momo Chavez on writing sex work and strip club culture

"We need more stories written by sex workers for sex workers!" Momo Chavez chats to Archer Magazine.
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Queerplatonic relationships: Not friendship, not dating, but a secret third thing

Queerplatonic relationships: Not friendship, not dating, but a secret third thing

Queerplatonic relationships shift the goalposts of what a relationship ought to be. Better yet, they tear down the game entirely.
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Dating as a queer, disabled and COVID-cautious person

Dating as a queer, disabled and COVID-cautious person

Before the COVID pandemic, I’d join a dating app and worry about whether I’d get any matches, or whether the picture of me in my wheelchair would scare people off.
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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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Gastroparesis and emotional abuse: How chronic illness helped me heal

Gastroparesis and emotional abuse: How chronic illness helped me heal

It feels pretty great to have energy, to have desire. To feel hunger again. For the first time in years, I feel alive. 
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How to make LGBTQIA+ friends in a new place

How to make LGBTQIA+ friends in a new place

There isn't a one-size-fits-all approach to making new LGBTQIA+ friends, but here are some ideas of how you can get out there and find your people.
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How do I find queer mums looking for love? Phone-a-Dyke Episode 4

How do I find queer mums looking for love? Phone-a-Dyke Episode 4

It's Phone-a-Dyke, Archer's queer advice column. Today's reader is ready to date the queer mum of their dreams, but where to find her?
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Archer Asks: Musician Montaigne on fish as a queer metaphor

Archer Asks: Musician Montaigne on fish as a queer metaphor

"Fish felt like an apt metaphor for my own experience with being alive, for my relationship with my mum, for being queer." Montaigne chats to Alex Creece.
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Sexual violence in sapphic spaces: It lives in your chest

Sexual violence in sapphic spaces: It lives in your chest

I thought I would be safe from the horrors of sexual violence in my queer feminist utopia. But it was within that sapphic bubble where I was assaulted.
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Nightlife as a queer Egyptian-Australian: Learning how to dance

Nightlife as a queer Egyptian-Australian: Learning how to dance

Meet Daniel Nour: Egyptian and Australian; loud and painfully awkward; conservative and very confused (especially about other boys).
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Self-love, neurodivergence and sex: Finding peace with all my selves

Self-love, neurodivergence and sex: Finding peace with all my selves

What I do know about myself is that I’m neurodivergent, queer, that I feel deeply, and that I have a doubt-driven, unshakeable desire to be loved.
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Archer Asks: Graphic novelist Rachel Ang on desire and the changing body

Archer Asks: Graphic novelist Rachel Ang on desire and the changing body

"Sex is such an interesting mode of inquiry – a petri dish for gaining knowledge about ourselves and our lusts and limits in the world." Rachel Ang chats to Alex Creece.
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In love with my best friend: Queer girl ‘friendships’ and Olivia Rodrigo

In love with my best friend: Queer girl ‘friendships’ and Olivia Rodrigo

I recently read that it’s a ‘canon’ event for queer girls to have a huge blow-out break-up with a close girl friend from high school.
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Demisexuality and the need for increased visibility

Demisexuality and the need for increased visibility

The thing is, yes, I really do want a label for my demisexuality. The finding of this word, and of the community that uses it, was life-changing.
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For this month’s Queer Fashion Files, we chat to legendary musician Kaiit about culture, fashion and the importance of caring (lots!).

Archer Magazine spoke to Melbourne Theatre Company about ‘The Glass Menagerie’ and the enduring queer legacy of Tennessee Williams.

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“I try to convey the diverse reality and complexity of what queer and trans refugees and migrants experience, and not just some kumbaya fantasy of everyone sharing resources and taking care of each other.” Bobuq Sayed chats to Alex Creece.

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