Archer Magazine

Archer Magazine is a celebrated print magazine that explores topics related to sexuality, gender, and identity. This publication is released biannually in Melbourne, Australia, and emphasizes the importance of underrepresented voices and the distinctiveness of individual experiences.

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Pine Gap to Gaza: Surveillance from stolen Arrernte lands

2 months ago | archermagazine.com.au | Celeste Liddle

They press a buttonAnd this country looks awayPress a buttonAnother death another dayShifting sands wipe conscious mindsTo global warfare they turn blindThey press their buttonsThey press their buttons– Celeste Liddle – ‘Golf Balls’, 2024An unusual fact about me is that, unlike most other Aboriginal people, I am just Arrernte.
Archer Asks: Five queer artists on superheroes, erotica and top surgery in art

Nov 27, 2024 | archermagazine.com.au | Anna Hu

For five years, the Queer/Trans Zine Fest, hosted outdoors in Providence, Rhode Island, USA, provided a space to boldly celebrate queer art and artists. This year was the last iteration of the beloved festival, which hosted thousands of attendees and over 70 exhibitors across the free, six-hour event. The festival was dreamed up by nine friends in 2017 and it expanded with each run, experiencing a resurgence in interest after a several-year hiatus around the height of COVID-19.
Queer sex in the mainstream: Pride and prudishness

Nov 18, 2024 | archermagazine.com.au | Simon Copland

As I headed to Sydney for Mardi Gras this year, I received a phone call from my doctor to confirm, following very strong suspicions, that I had syphilis. Receiving a positive STI test is often extremely isolating. Despite having symptoms for the week prior, I had not shared with anyone (expect for my partners) that something was going on. On the train when I received the call, I felt the need to find the quietest spot possible, in case someone next to me heard what the doctor had to say.
Pregnancy, porn and parenthood

Oct 30, 2024 | archermagazine.com.au | Zahra Zsuzsanna Stardust

This is an extract from Indie Porn: Revolution, Regulation and Resistance by Zahra Stardust out now from Duke University Press. Copyright Duke University Press, 2024. In Indie Porn, Zahra Stardust examines the motivations and interventions of independent porn producers as they navigate criminal laws, risk-averse platforms, discriminatory algorithms, and rampant piracy.
Non-binary bodies in literature: From stray cats to endless oceans - Archer Magazine

Aug 19, 2024 | archermagazine.com.au | Marina Deller

Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement At 16, I realised that my gender was more complex than the one I’d been assigned at birth. As an avid reader and writer, I turned to books for answers, but found them wanting. In the 2010s, mainstream publishing houses weren’t prioritising or platforming the nuanced and realistic stories of gender and self-discovery I craved.
Queer sci-fi, EMDR and PTSD: When writing and therapy collide

Jul 16, 2024 | archermagazine.com.au | Victoria Brooks

Content warning: This article mentions trauma and sexual abuse. I’ve zipped across decades in a flash. I’ve explored parallel dimensions and met a thousand versions of myself flying through the multiverse. And I’ve done this all while sitting perfectly still in two places on planet Earth: my writer’s desk and my therapist’s office. Image: Algol’s Mistress, 2021, glazed ceramic, 50 x 48 x 22 cm. Zoe Williams, courtesy of the artist and Ciaccia Levi, Paris-Milan. Photo by Aurélien Mole.
Bewitched as queer representation: Disenchanting heteronormativity

Jun 24, 2024 | archermagazine.com.au | Anna Blair

I was recently asked if I wished I’d seen queer characters on television when I was younger. I considered the question for a moment, but something about it felt wrong. I had queer representation, I realised, because I had reruns of Bewitched. Image credit: Bewitched, ABC, 1972When I was in high school, Bewitched aired at the same time I arrived home.
Being Maghrebi in France: Xenophobia and lost family history

May 13, 2024 | archermagazine.com.au | Manèle El Zoghlami

“I’m Maghrebi,” I reply to an old lady asking me where I’m from. Sitting at the bus stop, my earphone dangling between my fingers, I smile back politely. Looking at her face, glowing with excitement and genuine interest, I don’t have the heart to tell her that this question makes me feel foreign in my own country. I never do. And yet, I am oh so tired of having to justify my non-whiteness to strangers – of explaining that my mom is from Algeria, my dad is from Tunisia.
Queer fairy tales: Finding the 'fairies' in classic stories - Archer Magazine

Oct 25, 2023 | archermagazine.com.au | Michael Earp

Once upon a time, there wasn’t a single queer person in the world, so there was no need to talk about them in stories…Wait, what? Image: Walter Crane illustration of Faithful Heinrich (right) and his princeFor as long as humans have had voices, folk and fairy tales have been spoken aloud around the fire.
Cry Club is creating a queer space for you to be whoever you want to be

Jul 17, 2023 | archermagazine.com.au | Patrick Lenton

It’s hard to imagine on paper, but one of the most rock n’ roll moments in a Cry Club show is a PSA about crowd safety. It’s at odds with traditional notions of live performance – think of stories of the Sex Pistols spitting on crowds, of violent moshes, of Iggy Pop cutting himself with broken glass on stage. But Cry Club as a band seem supremely and coolly unconcerned with any worries about traditionality in their music and performance.