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

For Asian migrant sex workers specifically, the combined weight of racism, migration precarity, labour marginalisation and stigma, meant that violence was both more likely to occur and less likely to be recognised.

In death, the social media profiles left behind become incidental moments of crossover: an often-unintentional memorialisation.

I started to think how that is the story that this album tells: how dancefloors and dungeon floors have this shared history.

It’s Phone-a-Dyke, Archer’s queer advice column. Today’s reader is a transmasc person wondering how to navigate attending events for gay men.

From within the Muslim community I grew up in, I’ve heard phrases like, “What can a Western, non-Muslim therapist understand about our struggle?”

Archer Magazine and TØS Journal are recruiting for their new podcast WORKER, a community-led podcast centred on authentic storytelling from sex workers.

If you’re aged 25 to 74 and have a cervix, and have had any kind of sexual contact, cervical screening is recommended every five years. This includes trans men, non-binary people and people taking testosterone.

MUNA spoke to Archer Magazine about their astrological charts, Meg from Hercules being bisexual and making sad music with thumping basslines.

I found myself navigating two kinds of code-switching simultaneously: adjusting for culture at work, and adjusting for identity almost everywhere else.

It’s Phone-a-Dyke, Archer’s queer advice column. Today’s reader is having a quite unpleasant butch-femme conversation with a friend.

The labels of ‘mother’ and ‘doll’ arose from Black and Latina trans women’s will to survive. It’s our responsibility to regard these roots with respect.

“Leatherdyke culture really came out of the sex wars, on the more positive side of sex work and kink exploring,” Rowan tells me.

Perhaps it’s for this reason that many people who were raised Catholic – including LGBTQIA+ folks – explore or connect so deeply with kink culture, where spiritual masochism yields sexual gratification.

“You can’t always talk about where you’re from, but you can cook it.” Alvin Quah chats to Alex Creece.

It’s Phone-a-Dyke, Archer’s queer advice column. Today’s reader needs advice making queer friends in a new city they’re finding cliquey.

I want a world where all people, but particularly those most marginalised, get to do what they want to do and be supported in it. It’s as simple as that, really.

As part of the disabled community myself, I feel strongly that I’m not a hero for being a carer. I’m just a person who’s doing what I feel is right.

Alice Vyvyan-Jones spoke to LA-based artist Swsh about safe spaces, queer creative communities, and making work through identity, desire and growing confidence. 

As a trans woman living in the diaspora, I have become my own myth. I am a living, breathing architectural disaster of the soul. The horror of the Manananggal isn’t the flight; it’s the tether.

It’s Phone-a-Dyke, Archer’s queer advice column. Today’s reader wants to know: How do I know if I’m a top or a bottom?

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!).