To me, being autistic means that my body recoils at uncontested universal ‘truths’ and the illogical, painful performance of femininity.

I started to think how that is the story that this album tells: how dancefloors and dungeon floors have this shared history.

It’s Phone-a-Dyke, Archer’s queer advice column. Today’s reader is a transmasc person wondering how to navigate attending events for gay men.

The labels of ‘mother’ and ‘doll’ arose from Black and Latina trans women’s will to survive. It’s our responsibility to regard these roots with respect.

As a trans woman living in the diaspora, I have become my own myth. I am a living, breathing architectural disaster of the soul. The horror of the Manananggal isn’t the flight; it’s the tether.

For this month’s Queer Fashion Files, we chat to legendary musician Kaiit about culture, fashion and the importance of caring (lots!).

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’.

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.

Look, I don’t need every movie to turn into a polyamorous group hug. But I do need creators to stop pretending like we’re not all seeing what we’re seeing.

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.

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.

Desire often raises questions: is my desire for this – this thought, this act, this porn, this person – is this okay? Is this porn ethical?

In Black+White, it was the tightly framed shots of intertwining limbs, bodies folded over, and skin upon skin that drew me in.

Free Palestine activists resist local forces of oppression, fascism and colonialism, mobilising and finding strength as a community.

We’re thrilled to welcome you to Archer Magazine #21: the ART issue. Join our launch event on 14 June 2025 at LCI Melbourne.

Anti-porn sentiment isn’t new, but this current wave has created a platform for new puritans, reminiscent of other moral panics.

I know what it’s like to be seen in my entirety. I’ve experienced disability justice in action, which is to say that I’ve experienced love.

“There’s nothing more pathetic than being at a party, somebody asking what you do, and saying, ‘I’m a poet.'” Eileen Myles chats with Alex Creece.

Even in African countries with slightly more favourable LGBTQI+ legislation, queer people are still subject to prejudice and violence.

Before the COVID pandemic, I’d join a dating app and worry about whether I’d get any matches, or whether the picture of me in my wheelchair would scare people off.

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