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

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.

Horror narratives then act as warnings: become too much, defy mainstream expectations, and risk becoming either a victim or a monster.

After 13 years, it’s time for our founder, Amy, along with Archer’s visuals extraordinaire, Alexis Desaulniers-Lea, to hand the reins over.

For this month’s Queer Fashion Files, we chat to fashionista Slam Ross about SLAMROSS100, her underground-inspired streetwear label and multi-dimensional art practice.

Archer Magazine chatted to The Beaches about their new single with G Flip, about rage in music and queer visibility.

For every queer Catholic kid raised to believe that other queer and trans people do not exist in the present, much less in the history of our Church, Catholic art history is a path of gender and sexual liberation.

Having affirmed that I am trans, so much has shifted – in relation to not only my body, and to food, but to travel, too.

Archer Magazine talks to Courtney Barnett about her new album ‘Creature of Habit’, listening to signs from the universe, and ‘Shark Tank’.

The Mad Pride movement seeks to challenge the mainstream psychiatric system with a focus on understanding Madness from cultural, spiritual and structural perspectives.

“It is an honour to use our language in my poems; my ancestors voices can be heard in-between the pages.” Maria van Neerven chats to Alex Creece.

So what was it about these digital divas that enraptured my little gay mind – and over a smorgasbord of hunks no less?

Through her work as a sexologist, this author has found unpacking shame and prioritising pleasure a necessary
lesson for many of her clients.

But is Singaporean culture not also other trans Singaporeans? The transfemmes I’ve spoken to, gotten advice from online?

“We are of the land, and the land is of us, symbolising brown boys coming back to land as a way to find themselves.” Daniel Mateo chats to Alex Creece.