“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.

I will not allow Zionism, imperialist governments or the state of Israel to take my compassion or empathy from me. Compassion is the key to our collective liberation.

Welcome to Archer Magazine #20: the RESISTANCE issue. Join our launch event on 30 August 2024.

For this month’s Queer Fashion Files, we’re featuring fashion photographer Ella Maximillion.

Archer Magazine #20: the RESISTANCE issue out 2024. Queer experience cannot be watered down into a single concept, but one thread that connects us all is resistance.

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.