“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.

“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.

One Christmas break early in my queer re-emergence, I bought a stack of books to read, almost entirely queer young adult fiction.

The truth is, you can’t ask, “What makes someone butch?” without also asking what makes someone cis, trans or non-binary. The borders blur. The categories leak.

Chosen names offer a synthesis of literary and psychoanalytic analysis. When you choose a name, it is imbued with references, history and storytelling.

Decolonising portraiture offers empowerment and authentic self-expression for BIPOC and queer individuals.

Capitalism, neoliberalism and the myth of meritocracy fuel impostor syndrome by insisting that individuals alone are responsible for our success or failure. This is a lie.

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

I think I knew deep down that if I shaved my head, it would be curtain call for Straight Girl.

“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’.

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

I’m repeatedly coming out as disabled so those around me know why I’m behaving a little differently, or why I’m not helping with the chairs.

If I don’t avoid everything French, it feels like I’m endorsing the country that causes my communities so much misery.

From Progress Shark to lesbian literature, activism to polyamory and so much more, here are Archer Magazine’s editors’ top picks for 2023.

Mo’Ju has amassed critical, commercial and cultural influence. Their latest album Oro, Plata, Mata was released in March 2023.

I grew up as two things: a closeted queer and a closeted Justin Bieber fan. Just like any other girl in my year seven English class, I was writing ‘JB’ over and over again in my notebooks with big love hearts.  I couldn’t care less if Justin Bieber had a girlfriend, or if the paparazzi …

Cry Club are not interested in doing anything other than chasing joy. They refuse to limit themselves, or be reduced to one genre or box. It’s an inherently queer philosophy.

Uboa and Liturgy’s music acknowledges the trans rage of disempowerment, and how unleashing that rage can create a sense of self-affirmation.

Finding people who honor your full self is not easy, but when you do, you have begun relearning love, you have found chosen family.

As 2022 comes to a close, we can’t help but get reflective and sentimental – cue the smiling single tear emoji – about all the wonderful articles we’ve edited this year.

From trans sex to bisexual pride, here are our most read online pieces of 2022.

Being bisexual, just like being a blakfulla, became a solid constant of my identity. Unshakable and unquestionable by those outside of myself.