Grief in the digital space: Death and virtual ghosts

Grief in the digital space: Death and virtual ghosts

In death, the social media profiles left behind become incidental moments of crossover: an often-unintentional memorialisation.
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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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Queerplatonic Relationships: An aromantic’s love story

Queerplatonic Relationships: An aromantic’s love story

Queerplatonic relationships offer a framework for bending the rules of traditional heteronormative and amatonormative relationships.
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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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Help! Is my friend being butch-phobic? Phone-a-Dyke Episode 10

Help! Is my friend being butch-phobic? Phone-a-Dyke Episode 10

It's Phone-a-Dyke, Archer's queer advice column. Today's reader is having a quite unpleasant butch-femme conversation with a friend.
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Tops vs bottoms for queers: How do I know what I am? Phone-a-Dyke Episode 8

Tops vs bottoms for queers: How do I know what I am? Phone-a-Dyke Episode 8

It's Phone-a-Dyke, Archer's queer advice column. Today's reader wants to know: How do I know if I'm a top or a bottom?
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Making queer friends in a cliquey new city? Phone-a-Dyke Episode 9

Making queer friends in a cliquey new city? Phone-a-Dyke Episode 9

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.
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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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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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I started to think how that is the story that this album tells: how dancefloors and dungeon floors have this shared history.

It’s Phone-a-Dyke, Archer’s queer advice column. Today’s reader is a transmasc person wondering how to navigate attending events for gay men.

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