Welcome to Archer Magazine #11: the GAZE issue. (Let’s be clear: That’s ‘GAZE’, not ‘GAYS’.)

I spend the most time with myself, running my fingers over my stomach and agonising over the parts that are soft. I guess all queer and trans people feel the way I feel at some point, because our bodies become associated with a very specific type of failure. In Vito Russo’s The Celluloid Closet, he …

Queer admin is about refusing to be forced into categories you don’t belong in. It’s squeezing your identity onto the side of an A4 registration form.

“If we were to jointly refuse normalisation, then there’d be no outsiders.” Cher Tan chats to Archer Magazine about her debut book, ‘Peripathetic: Notes on (un)belonging’.

Paranormal topics are often misunderstood, feared, and vilified – just like many of us in the queer community.

Queer sci-fi sees a future outside of binary genders, sexualities and relationship structures that have hurt us for generations.

It appears the only way society has allowed femme rage is when it is displayed by white, conventionally attractive women, and portrayed through the aestheticised lens of film.

For this month’s Queer Fashion Files, we’re featuring Sable Jewellery by Scarlett Bronte.

“Everything that I make is a mirror, a reflection of my identity, because it comes from me.” Iniko chats to Archer Magazine about their music and upcoming tour.

I taught Bewitched in relation to many topics, but it was my own relationship to bisexuality that changed the way I read the show.

My sense of beauty remains hazy, haunted by the spectre of revolutionary China: a world I know intimately and yet not at all.

I have not known miscarriage or baby loss. But this image, of a mother waking up to exile from her child, her entire body flung, is deeply familiar and deeply consoling.

Join us for a night of innuendo, prizes, power ballads, queer icons, cheap drinks, bingo numbers, and community togetherness.

If you are an Aboriginal child whose parents have been criminalised, police officers see you as a criminal, too.

‘Trophy Boys’ is a camp extravaganza starring femme and non-binary folks in drag as the awful private school boys of your dreams/nightmares.

I write like all the sex I’ve had is happening now. This is the anatomy of a trans sex scene: ‘now’ is never just now.

For this month’s Queer Fashion Files, we’re featuring Sulaiman “Sully” Enayatzada’s photography.

I’m repeatedly coming out as disabled so those around me know why I’m behaving a little differently, or why I’m not helping with the chairs.

If I don’t avoid everything French, it feels like I’m endorsing the country that causes my communities so much misery.

‘Foreground’ is a celebration of older trans and gender diverse people, who severely lack representation in the media.

“‘Potty Mouth, Potty Mouth’ unpacks what it is to be a ratbag by nature, to be a little grot, to live in a failing way.” Alex Creece chats with Rae White.

For this month’s Queer Fashion Files, we’re featuring Lexi Laphor’s fashion photography.

In rural places, safe spaces for queer people look different to those located in metropolitan areas.

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.