Butch language, lineage and expansiveness: What is a butch?
The truth is, you can’t ask, "What makes someone butch?" without also asking what makes someone cis, trans or non-binary....
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Queer Fashion Files: ‘Jarrad Shot Me!’ by Jarrad Levy
For this month’s Queer Fashion Files, we chat to artist Jarrad Levy, known for his queer headshots and fetish photography.
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Chosen names, affect and identity: A rose by any other name
Chosen names offer a synthesis of literary and psychoanalytic analysis. When you choose a name, it is imbued with references,...
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Do not travel, and other great advice: Travelling as an autistic trans person
Since coming out as trans, I find myself suddenly scared of traversing the sorts of barriers I was crossing solo...
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Queer desire and attraction: Overcoming sexual shame
Shame can be a powerful emotion as a queer person. Recently, shame has centred around my high libido.
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Voice changes on testosterone: A homecoming through music
Once I started taking testosterone, I made an album that documented the way my voice changed.
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Transition, culture and ritualistic death as a Blak trans woman
My family only really knows the old me, holding onto a dead man's name – and I use the word “dead”...
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Medical gaslighting, illness and community care: Pins and needles
If not for medical gaslighting, maybe Jewel would still be around but unwell, managing her condition just as I manage...
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Queer Fashion Files: In the studio with DJ and musician Fresh Hex
For this month’s Queer Fashion Files, we chat to superstar musician and DJ Fresh Hex.
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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...
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What if I’m tired of sex? Phone-a-Dyke Episode 5
It's Phone-a-Dyke, Archer's queer advice column. Today's reader: Is there an age where you can officially call sex too wearingly...
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Support Archer Magazine’s NEURODIVERGENCE issue!
We're planning an upcoming NEURODIVERGENCE issue, and we need your support!
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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...
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Sexual inexperience, trauma and involuntary celibacy – without the shame
There is a struggle to conceptualise the space between sexual inexperience and abstinence. Our society doesn’t have the vocabulary for...
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How to talk to your kids about sex: An age-by-age guide
Vanessa Hamilton, a sexuality educator, author and speaker, shares her knowledge on how to talk to your kids about sex,...
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Archer Asks: Mx Yaffa, Palestinian poet, activist and organiser
"The work to build a collectively liberated world is always going to be easier than living in this current –...
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Beyond ‘ethical’ porn: On capitalism, sex work and authenticity
Desire often raises questions: is my desire for this – this thought, this act, this porn, this person – is...
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We're conducting a brand-spankin'-new reader survey! Spill the tea and you could win.
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Black+White: Finding my sexuality in a 1990s fashion and art magazine
In Black+White, it was the tightly framed shots of intertwining limbs, bodies folded over, and skin upon skin that drew...
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Jewish and Palestinian solidarity: Loud Jewish activism
Unpacking Jewish resistance and solidarity in this moment, with all its histories.
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