Young adult fiction and later-in-life queer awakenings

Young adult fiction and later-in-life queer awakenings

One Christmas break early in my queer re-emergence, I bought a stack of books to read, almost entirely queer young adult fiction.
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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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The most read pieces of 2025: Gloryholes, horse girls, neurodivergence and Palestinian legacies

The most read pieces of 2025: Gloryholes, horse girls, neurodivergence and Palestinian legacies

From sex work to straight boy crushes, neurodivergence to Palestinian literature, here are Archer Magazine's most read online pieces of 2025.
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Palestinian resistance and liberation: We will not be defeated

Palestinian resistance and liberation: We will not be defeated

Free Palestine activists resist local forces of oppression, fascism and colonialism, mobilising and finding strength as a community.
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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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Sissification from a transfemme Domme: Safe forced feminisation

Sissification from a transfemme Domme: Safe forced feminisation

This is an alternative to sissification or forced feminisation: the sub is feminised as part of the session, but not mocked for it.
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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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Cruising IRL: Off the apps and back to the beat

Cruising IRL: Off the apps and back to the beat

I’ve found there’s something beautifully democratic about traditional cruising – the darkness and anonymity working as great equalisers.
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Police brutality and bigotry as a young Aboriginal person: I am not the problem

Police brutality and bigotry as a young Aboriginal person: I am not the problem

If you are an Aboriginal child whose parents have been criminalised, police officers see you as a criminal, too.
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On the G.O.D gang of Sydney’s 1990s, queer objects and archives

On the G.O.D gang of Sydney’s 1990s, queer objects and archives

Seeing objects from my life in a museum does not make me feel old. It makes me feel valued. Queer feminist history matters. My story matters.  
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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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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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Bewitched as queer representation: Disenchanting heteronormativity

Bewitched as queer representation: Disenchanting heteronormativity

I taught Bewitched in relation to many topics, but it was my own relationship to bisexuality that changed the way I read the show.
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Archer Asks: Author and actor Zoe Terakes on horny trans myths

Archer Asks: Author and actor Zoe Terakes on horny trans myths

"Nature depends on transness – we see it in mycology, fungi, plant life, fish and hyenas." Zoe Terakes chats to 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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Melbourne’s lesbian community: Celebrating sapphic history and connection

Melbourne’s lesbian community: Celebrating sapphic history and connection

I’ve frequented gay bars in Melbourne, and still do, but none of them have the beating heart of lesbian community that Third Rodeo does for me.
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Learning that you’re autistic as an adult: Big feelings

Learning that you’re autistic as an adult: Big feelings

Being diagnosed as an autistic person was the best thing that has ever happened to me. It just didn’t feel like it at the time.
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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: 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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DJ Estée Louder chats to Archer Magazine about dancefloor politics, queer electronica spaces and dyke history.

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.

My Chosen Family, strewn across every stretch of this landmass, have built the very foundation from which I have been able to flourish.

“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.

“I don’t think questioning tradition is disrespectful. I think refusing to question it is far more dangerous.” Karma Dance’s Govind Pillai chats to Dhriti Gandham.

One Christmas break early in my queer re-emergence, I bought a stack of books to read, almost entirely queer young adult fiction.

For me, naked yoga is the epitome of a pleasure practice – it’s how I connect to the wild child that lives inside me.

It was such a relief to untangle myself from compulsory heterosexuality. It felt freeing.

Butch is not simply a sexuality, or a way of referring to women who read as traditionally ‘masculine’. It’s a way of moving through the world.

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