Stories about: arts
This month, we went to New York City and chatted to social media entrepreneur Kel Rakowski.

Archer Asks: Wet Leg’s Rhian Teasdale on queer yearning, feral lyrics and ‘Jennifer’s Body’
Ahead of their tour dates in so-called Australia, we chatted to Wet Leg’s Rhian Teasdale about queer yearning, feral lyrics and eggs.
This month, we went to New York City and chatted to sisters and eyewear icons Rachel Cohen-Lunning and Merrilee Lichtenstein Cohen, founders of Mercura NYC.

The most read pieces of 2025: Gloryholes, horse girls, neurodivergence and Palestinian legacies
From sex work to straight boy crushes, neurodivergence to Palestinian literature, here are Archer Magazine’s most read online pieces of 2025.
For this month’s Queer Fashion Files, we chat to artist Jarrad Levy, known for his queer headshots and fetish photography.
Once I started taking testosterone, I made an album that documented the way my voice changed.
For this month’s Queer Fashion Files, we chat to superstar musician and DJ Fresh Hex.
“The work to build a collectively liberated world is always going to be easier than living in this current – really oppressive – fascistic world.” Mx Yaffa chats to Anna Hu.
In Black+White, it was the tightly framed shots of intertwining limbs, bodies folded over, and skin upon skin that drew me in.
For this month’s Queer Fashion Files, we chat to portrait and fashion photographer Gracie Steindl.
For this month’s Queer Fashion Files, we’re featuring creative duo Nicol & Ford.
“Fish felt like an apt metaphor for my own experience with being alive, for my relationship with my mum, for being queer.” Montaigne chats to Alex Creece.
For this month’s Queer Fashion Files, we attend Australian Fashion Week and chat with designer Gary Bigeni.
Meet Daniel Nour: Egyptian and Australian; loud and painfully awkward; conservative and very confused (especially about other boys).
The world-famous Keith Haring mural painted on an exterior wall of a school building in Collingwood, Melbourne, turned 40 years old last year.
We’re thrilled to welcome you to Archer Magazine #21: the ART issue. Join our launch event on 14 June 2025 at LCI Melbourne.
“Sex is such an interesting mode of inquiry – a petri dish for gaining knowledge about ourselves and our lusts and limits in the world.” Rachel Ang chats to Alex Creece.
Almost immediately, improv had become the most powerful tool I had for exploring and affirming my gender expression.
As a trans Filipino sex worker, I’ve been using my gloryhole to create art with my clients, lovers and fellow sex workers.
“Our strength as queer, disabled people is our rage.” We chat to the team behind Oh, How We Laughed*, an anthology by queer, disabled writers.
Zinaida Gippius lived a rather queer life – between their affairs with women, highly publicised threesomes, cross-dressing, and more.
“The bond between girl and horse is more like the passionate friendship described in Victorian lesbian narratives.” Monica Nolan chats to Alex Creece.























