Stories about: arts

Archer Asks: DJ Estée Louder on dancefloor politics, dyke history and dark club sounds
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!).

Archer Asks: Mark Wilson and Tim Draxl on the enduring queer legacy of Tennessee Williams
Archer Magazine spoke to Melbourne Theatre Company about ‘The Glass Menagerie’ and the enduring queer legacy of Tennessee Williams.
“I don’t think questioning tradition is disrespectful. I think refusing to question it is far more dangerous.” Karma Dance’s Govind Pillai chats to Dhriti Gandham.
For this month’s Queer Fashion Files, we chat to fashionista Slam Ross about SLAMROSS100, her underground-inspired streetwear label and multi-dimensional art practice.
For every queer Catholic kid raised to believe that other queer and trans people do not exist in the present, much less in the history of our Church, Catholic art history is a path of gender and sexual liberation.
Archer Magazine talks to Courtney Barnett about her new album ‘Creature of Habit’, listening to signs from the universe, and ‘Shark Tank’.

Archer Asks: Bangarra’s Daniel Mateo on Indigenous masculinities and the poetry of dance
“We are of the land, and the land is of us, symbolising brown boys coming back to land as a way to find themselves.” Daniel Mateo chats to Alex Creece.

Queer Fashion Files: ‘Visibility, Venus 8 and the Politics of Being Seen’ by Danielle Fitzgerald
For this month’s Queer Fashion Files, we chat to Danielle Fitzgerald about Venus 8, her project documenting the backstage worlds of dancers and sex workers.

Archer Asks: Artist Kwinana on art and activism for People With Albinism in South Africa
I aspire for this exhibition to serve as a visual archive and a platform for dialogue, aiding future researchers and activists in challenging prevailing perceptions of Albinism in South Africa.
This month, we went to New York City and chatted to founder of Girls Carrying Shit and editor-in-chief of ‘pinky’ the magazine, Halle Robbe.
This month, we went to New York City and chatted to iconic queer photographer Sophie Kietzmann.
Each portrait begins with a conversation. My subject and I talk about whatever they choose to share: love and loss, coming out, the journey toward self-acceptance and understanding.
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.


















