Romanticising women’s pain: On suffering, gender essentialism and TERFs

Romanticising women’s pain: On suffering, gender essentialism and TERFs

Romanticising uniquely ‘feminine’ ways of suffering is like plastering a Hello Kitty bandaid over a bruise.
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Archer Magazine #21: the ART issue

Archer Magazine #21: the ART issue

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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Queer woman looking to hire a sex worker: Phone-a-Dyke Episode 3

Queer woman looking to hire a sex worker: Phone-a-Dyke Episode 3

It's Phone-a-Dyke, Archer's queer advice column. Today's question: a queer woman is looking to hire a sex worker to explore her sexuality.
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Archer Asks: Author Micaela Sahhar on memory, revenge and Palestinian legacies

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

"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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Launch photos: Archer Studio + Archer Magazine #21: the ART issue

Launch photos: Archer Studio + Archer Magazine #21: the ART issue

Peek the brilliant photos from our Archer Studio launch party. Thank you for being so lovely and hot, everyone.
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Gloryholes and art institutions: On censorship, queerness and sex work

Gloryholes and art institutions: On censorship, queerness and sex work

As a trans Filipino sex worker, I’ve been using my gloryhole to create art with my clients, lovers and fellow sex workers.
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Macho Sluts and Love Lies Bleeding: Patrick Califia’s lesbian erotic classic lives on

Macho Sluts and Love Lies Bleeding: Patrick Califia’s lesbian erotic classic lives on

I got my hands on Macho Sluts as a young dyke. Reading my way through my lover’s collection of erotic literature was an initiation of sorts.
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Crushes on straight men: Masc4masc and Troye Sivan

Crushes on straight men: Masc4masc and Troye Sivan

But why did I resonate so deeply with Troye Sivan’s fantasies? Why does the concept of hooking up with men who don’t identify as queer appeal so much to me?
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Fighting fatphobia in sapphic spaces: Give me a fat, anti-colonial baddie

Fighting fatphobia in sapphic spaces: Give me a fat, anti-colonial baddie

Let me say this for the record: people who hold and express fatphobic convictions may identify as queer, but they certainly are not embodying queerness.
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Lesbian music history: Searching for my mum’s long-lost record from 1993

Lesbian music history: Searching for my mum’s long-lost record from 1993

In 1993, my mum recorded an album, Sung in my Lover's Bedroom, a collection of tracks that were explicit acts of feminist & lesbian activism.
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Porn, queerness and moral panic: The new old sex wars

Porn, queerness and moral panic: The new old sex wars

Anti-porn sentiment isn't new, but this current wave has created a platform for new puritans, reminiscent of other moral panics.
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Josefine Aspvik’s creations are bold, genderless and speaking their minds

Josefine Aspvik’s creations are bold, genderless and speaking their minds

My characters are genderless, stunning creatures. They are not afraid to talk about what really needs to be talked about.
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Sex, fatness and overcoming shame

Sex, fatness and overcoming shame

As Victoria talked more openly to peers about sex, her interest in it and its relationship to fatness grew.
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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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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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Archer Magazine #20: the RESISTANCE issue

Archer Magazine #20: the RESISTANCE issue

Archer Magazine #20: the RESISTANCE issue out 2024. Queer experience cannot be watered down into a single concept, but one thread that connects us all is resistance.
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Archer Asks: Pulp author Monica Nolan on lesbian horse girls

Archer Asks: Pulp author Monica Nolan on lesbian horse girls

"The bond between girl and horse is more like the passionate friendship described in Victorian lesbian narratives." Monica Nolan chats to Alex Creece.
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Neuroqueer(ing) pleasure: Autism, sensation and kinship

Neuroqueer(ing) pleasure: Autism, sensation and kinship

I also think that autistic pleasure is queer, in and of itself. It’s queer in its non-normativity, in its subversiveness, and in its consequent proximity to shame and otherness.
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Aboriginal women and the revolving door of the prison system

Aboriginal women and the revolving door of the prison system

It’s like we are refugees in our own country, on our own land. Hunted by coppers and racists alike, we remember how our ancestors must have felt as we live through it.
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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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