My Chosen Family, strewn across every stretch of this landmass, have built the very foundation from which I have been able to flourish.

“I try to convey the diverse reality and complexity of what queer and trans refugees and migrants experience, and not just some kumbaya fantasy of everyone sharing resources and taking care of each other.” Bobuq Sayed chats to Alex Creece.

“It is an honour to use our language in my poems; my ancestors voices can be heard in-between the pages.” Maria van Neerven chats to Alex Creece.

“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.

“We need more stories written by sex workers for sex workers!” Momo Chavez chats to Archer Magazine.

My family only really knows the old me, holding onto a dead man’s name – and I use the word “dead” as a trans woman. But I have been able to heal and grow as a woman.

Vanessa Hamilton, a sexuality educator, author and speaker, shares her knowledge on how to talk to your kids about sex, bodies and human development.

If I must be a werewolf, I choose to be a wulver instead of a luchthonn. No amount of family history or testosterone will dictate who I can be.

This is twin care: connection to one another as the basis for life, rather than individualism that strives only for sole survival.

As an Iranian-Australian, I feel a specific guilt that many second-generation immigrants know well.

It’s Phone-a-Dyke, Archer’s queer advice column. Today’s reader is ready to date the queer mum of their dreams, but where to find her?

“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.

Meet Daniel Nour: Egyptian and Australian; loud and painfully awkward; conservative and very confused (especially about other boys).

Two trans women share a lively discussion around culture, sex work, the AIDS crisis, gender and intersex identity.

“We, the diaspora, are an important part of the work of liberation, alongside Palestinian people who remained.” Micaela Sahhar chats to Alex Creece.

“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.

“Those small acts of support – say, a parent affirming their child’s self-expression – create a profound ripple effect.” Rae White chats to Alex Creece.

“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.

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.

My sense of beauty remains hazy, haunted by the spectre of revolutionary China: a world I know intimately and yet not at all.

I have not known miscarriage or baby loss. But this image, of a mother waking up to exile from her child, her entire body flung, is deeply familiar and deeply consoling.

If you are an Aboriginal child whose parents have been criminalised, police officers see you as a criminal, too.