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

“I wouldn’t be half the artist I am today if I hadn’t lost everything before it.” Magnets, aka Siobhan McGinnity, chats to Alex Creece.

We’re shooting ‘MotherFuckers’, an explicit documentary about porn star parents. I trace the sleeping bump inside my uterus—I am six months pregnant.

For this month’s Queer Fashion Files, we’re featuring textile artist Kate Just.

The notion that drag storytime events are anything but positive, wholesome and uplifting is just rooted in fear and misinformation. It’s essential that we confront that narrative.

“I know that poetry is political. I know also that it’s inseparable from action.”
Hasib Hourani chats to Archer Magazine.

When we have spaces to be our authentic selves, neurodivergent queer people can find a genuine sense of community and belonging.

Casual sex and dating are complex for someone who is bipolar. How can I live a balanced life when my natural urges are read as a warning sign?

“I am in awe of Palestinian women. I have never seen such extraordinary patience, resilience and love for family.” Samah Sabawi chats to Archer Magazine.

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.

The resulting mainstream culture around masturbation (including pharmaceutical organisational practices) has become stale, and girlboss-ily gender essentialist.

For this month’s Queer Fashion Files, we’re featuring RA*UCH, a fashion label by Cierra Rauch.

Everywhere I turned felt like a trap that led to more confusion, doubt and shame. I wasn’t afraid of being gay – I was afraid that I was lying about it.

By virtue of experiencing genital trauma at the hands of surgeons, I cannot help but feel aligned with the intersex community.

With T4T: A Transgender Showcase, for once we’re not coming together to defend our humanity, we’re coming together to celebrate it.

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.

Disabled pleasure knows no bounds, bringing an intimacy that goes beyond romantic love, genitals or penetrative sex.

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.

The Huxleys are back for another episode of Queer Fashion Files! This time, they talk about ‘The Winner Takes It All’: a high-camp sport and fashion event.

As Victoria talked more openly to peers about sex, her interest in it and its relationship to fatness grew.

We always shared war stories, but seeing the violence livestreamed from Gaza made sharing survival stories feel even more necessary.

Reading literature can help us tend to ourselves as if we were a sapling. Emerging into a non-binary self is like reaching for sunlight.

To celebrate the upcoming art exhibition ‘The Future Feels Familiar’, as part of LCI Melbourne, we interviewed artists J Davies and Scarlett Mallia.