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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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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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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Is ChatGPT gay? On queer connection and artificial intelligence

Is ChatGPT gay? On queer connection and artificial intelligence

Like a lover, ChatGPT responds instantly to my touch. I give input; it puts out. But I don’t know if my conflicted feelings are enough to call it queer.
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Archer Asks: Author Rae White on gender diversity in children’s literature

Archer Asks: Author Rae White on gender diversity in children’s literature

"Those small acts of support – say, a parent affirming their child's self-expression – create a profound ripple effect." Rae White chats to Alex Creece.
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The most read pieces of 2024: Palestinian liberation, dyke erotica and disabled pleasure

The most read pieces of 2024: Palestinian liberation, dyke erotica and disabled pleasure

From drag storytime to intersex solidarity to neuro-inclusive spaces, here are Archer Magazine's most read online pieces of 2024.
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LGBTQIA+ carers: Queer people providing unpaid care

LGBTQIA+ carers: Queer people providing unpaid care

Despite the high portion of carers in the LGBTQIA+ community, many of us don’t self-identify as such – we are ‘hidden carers’.
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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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Bipolar disorder and dating: A mad girl’s love song

Bipolar disorder and dating: A mad girl’s love song

Casual sex and dating are complex for someone who is bipolar. How can I live a balanced life when my natural urges are read as a warning sign?
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Queer rural places as safe spaces

Queer rural places as safe spaces

In rural places, safe spaces for queer people look different to those located in metropolitan areas.
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Blak sovereignty, the Matildas and queer polyamorous parenting: Our editors’ top picks for 2023

Blak sovereignty, the Matildas and queer polyamorous parenting: Our editors’ top picks for 2023

From Progress Shark to lesbian literature, activism to polyamory and so much more, here are Archer Magazine's editors' top picks for 2023.
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The most read pieces of 2023: Queerplatonic love, neurodivergent art and trans music

The most read pieces of 2023: Queerplatonic love, neurodivergent art and trans music

From Jessica Rabbit to trans music to trash television, here are Archer Magazine's most read online pieces of 2023.
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Queering the parenting narrative: On co-parenting, uncoupling and polyamory

Queering the parenting narrative: On co-parenting, uncoupling and polyamory

I can see a future reflected in the community around me; it makes the rainbow family dream I birthed this babe into feel possible again.
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Queer platonic intimacy: A love letter to my housemate

Queer platonic intimacy: A love letter to my housemate

Queer platonic intimacy is thus the haunting spectre of a love that does nothing but simply exist. Our love for one another doesn’t do the work for capitalism.
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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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Home as a dystopia: Transphobia, ableism and domestic abuse

Home as a dystopia: Transphobia, ableism and domestic abuse

At every point, my gender, disabilities and material circumstances put me into situations where I was at constant risk of violence and abuse.
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Queer dating in rural America: Inexperience and isolation

Queer dating in rural America: Inexperience and isolation

Coming out here was tough, but that only tells half the struggles I’d faced as a queer woman in the American West.
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Legalising polygamy in Australia: A marriage of many loves

Legalising polygamy in Australia: A marriage of many loves

Half the fun of being queer is disparaging the rigid traditions that manacle society to its cishet melancholy. And yet, as a throuple, we may still like to get married someday.
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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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Cruising IRL: Off the apps and back to the beat

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I’ve found there’s something beautifully democratic about traditional cruising – the darkness and anonymity working as great equalisers.

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Keith Haring’s legacy: Queer art, optimism and activism

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The world-famous Keith Haring mural painted on an exterior wall of a school building in Collingwood, Melbourne, turned 40 years old last year.

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

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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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Drag and flowers in Hyderabad: ‘Mandakini’ photo series

By: Patruni Sastry

There was a sense of danger and adventure in leaving the house as a queer drag queen, heading to a flower market in Hyderabad.

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Archer Asks: Author Kaya Ortiz on queer Filipino poetics, pop culture and being alien

By: Alex Creece

“These poems are really just owning my different identities – Filipino, lesbian, queer – without shame.” Kaya Ortiz chats with Alex Creece.

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Archer Magazine #21: the ART issue

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We’re thrilled to welcome you to Archer Magazine #21: the ART issue. Join our launch event on 14 June 2025 at LCI Melbourne.

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Archer Asks: Author Micaela Sahhar on memory, revenge and Palestinian legacies

By: Alex Creece

“We, the diaspora, are an important part of the work of liberation, alongside Palestinian people who remained.” Micaela Sahhar chats to Alex Creece.

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Celebrate the launch of Archer Studio + Archer Magazine #21: the ART issue

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Come and join us as we celebrate the launch of Archer Studio, and the release of Archer Magazine #21: the ART issue.

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Queer Fashion Files: Interview with ace icon Allie Daisy King

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For this month’s Queer Fashion Files, we’re featuring content creator and ace icon Allie Daisy King.

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Are socks lesbian culture? Phone-a-Dyke Episode 1

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Welcome to Phone-a-Dyke, Archer’s new queer advice column. Today’s question: Are socks lesbian culture?

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