When we have spaces to be our authentic selves, neurodivergent queer people can find a genuine sense of community and belonging.

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.

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.

To celebrate the upcoming art exhibition ‘The Future Feels Familiar’, as part of LCI Melbourne, we interviewed artists J Davies and Scarlett Mallia.

From Jessica Rabbit to trans music to trash television, here are Archer Magazine’s most read online pieces of 2023.

At every point, my gender, disabilities and material circumstances put me into situations where I was at constant risk of violence and abuse.

Aegosexuality is akin to being aroused by the idea of sex without wanting to engage in sexual acts oneself – like a spectator who enjoys sports, but has no desire to participate in the game itself.

How can the mind transcend madness when it’s confined and magnified within these walls?

Joe is a conversion therapist hired by my parents to make their child less gay. Preferably straight, otherwise committed to celibacy.

When I say that medical discrimination almost killed me, I’m thinking of one particular incident that happened nearly five years ago.

As I sat in the hospital courtyard, I often considered how many patients may have had undiagnosed ARFID.

I can see now, looking back, that much of this was the result of me internalising the cultural, default setting of ableism.

My hairdresser says there’s a different kind of freedom from living out of home, and I finally understand what he means. Since moving out, I’ve recognised a part of my identity that’s come as a surprise for me. Even though I’ve been attending queer book events at the library, and have two copies of Guidebook …

Being diagnosed as an autistic person was the best thing that has ever happened to me. It just didn’t feel like it at the time.

Musician and artist Diimpa chats to Rose Chalks about musical minimalism, endurance, enlightenment and climate change.

Sometimes I feel like an intruder in queer spaces. OCD paints you as the liar, but only to yourself.

Unfortunately, there are few intersectional disability narratives in the mainstream, and likely even fewer that feature disabled actors.

When Hannah Gatsby asked ‘Where do the quiet gays go?’,  I thought, ‘Finally, someone else feels my pain!’ I had never felt more heard. Between being bisexual, being more disabled by my environment than by the disabilities themselves, and in my existence as a person of colour, my queerness has never been seen as fluorescently bright, …

The paradoxical logic of ‘Pure O’ OCD also applies to its manifestation within the body. It turns out the bodily nightmare that I had experienced has a name — ‘The Groinal Syndrome.’

Fareed Kaviani on Alison Bennett’s art that investigates the experience of getting a tattoo as a neuroqueer person.

Sophie King explores living with OCD and the intrusive sexual thoughts that accompany it.

It’s hard to have pride and want to be included in events celebrating it when those events aren’t accessible.