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25.01.2022 Here's one more 'best of 2020' piece to kick off your January. Business Queer's urgent and powerful piece about unsafe workplaces winning LGBTI awards is a must-read whether you are back at work, trying to work from home or just on the couch. "I quit my last workplace after two years of transphobia, microaggressions and constant misgendering. This year, they won a prestigious LGBTIQ+ inclusion award."

23.01.2022 "Ultimately, the goal of bi+ activism is to ensure that, one day, LGBTIQ+ groups will genuinely acknowledge the existence and needs of bisexual+ people, and not just include the B in their name and mission statement for the sake of the acronym." In the lead up to Bi Visibility Day, Misty Farquhar and Duc Dau wrote about creating and nurturing bi+ communities.

22.01.2022 "If the whole issue of this pandemic is infection control and stay[ing] at home, it implies that home is a safe place to be in and you have enough money to feed yourself so you can afford to stay at home." Karen Field, the CEO of drummond street services, spoke to Archer Magazine about the support and services drummond street is providing to vulnerable communities during COVID-19. To help drummond street services continue their much needed work, you can donate via their website at https://ds.org.au/contact-us/support-us.

21.01.2022 To launch Archer Issue 14: The Growing Up Issue and in celebration of GiveOUT Day 2020, Archer is hosting a digital fundraising event. Join us on Friday 16 October to hear from and support queer voices! #giveoutdayAU https://www.facebook.com/events/1400474480294568/

21.01.2022 "Taking a break from kink gave me the time and space to work through some heavy stuff, learn to stand on my own two feet and come back a stronger individual." Alyssa Kitt Hanley on taking a break from kink.

20.01.2022 "Whilst I recognised the deterioration of my mental health and acknowledged its cause, leaving sugaring didn’t seem like an option. The only thing bringing me joy was the high I got from the money and attention I received." Katie Ivanov writes about the highs and lows of sugaring.

20.01.2022 "Dancing in the men’s style, and doing the men’s steps, is affirming. It affirms my gender and makes me feel like my body truly is a masculine body. This is a welcomed change. Being seen and treated as myself, and dancing the men’s steps, makes me euphoric. I finally feel free to be myself." Hayden Moon writes about experiencing gender euphoria in dance after fighting for inclusion.

20.01.2022 Once I was trimmed and tucked, my costume shimmied over my corseted form, and my gorgeous face perfectly drawn, I suddenly realised that I had to get from Oxford Street to Waterloo in full costume. It was at that point that my inner saboteur kicked in. RuPaul warns that the inner saboteur is simply your fear, determined to stop you from having a good time. I took a deep breath and resolved to embrace the exquisite experience of drag. Nick Preston on the magic of discovering and doing drag with his best friend.

20.01.2022 "I’m fully aware that masks are an essential part of PPE in workplaces and medical settings, but imagine the struggle I faced in attending health appointments. As someone with a substantial hearing loss, I have always relied greatly on lip reading." Charbel Zaba writes about his particular struggles as a queer, disabled person living through the pandemic.

19.01.2022 ARCHER WEEK DAY 2: In celebration of Archer, we’d love to highlight our wonderful team’s work behind the scenes. https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/archer-magazine-issue-14-la

18.01.2022 ARCHER WEEK DAY 5: Today, we’d love to celebrate all our amazing readers! Thank you for loving and supporting us. https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/archer-magazine-issue-14-la

17.01.2022 We’re having a party! To launch Archer Issue 14: The Growing Up Issue and in celebration of GiveOUT Day 2020, we’re hosting a digital fundraising event. Join us on Friday 16 October to hear from and support queer voices! Grab your tickets ASAP, and please share this post to get your friends keen too! https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/archer-magazine-issue-14-la #giveoutdayAU

16.01.2022 Here's another of our top picks from 2020! Dylan's piece looks at the healthcare system and where it’s in need of improvement. It draws attention to the language used when describing treatments, and the impact that language can have on the perception of what is and isn’t necessary care. It’s a compelling piece, and a call for change. While gender-affirming surgery has long been a reason for early super withdrawal on hardship grounds, it strikes me as particularly dystopian. We are quite literally placed in a position of borrowing from our futures to make the present more habitable.

16.01.2022 "To some, without my hair, I have suddenly become less of a woman. Some of the privilege that I had as a ‘good girl’ has gone out like the tide, making me realise how gross that privilege was anyway." Alice on shaving her head and being seen differently.

16.01.2022 "I’ve always envied the physical ease that straight women have with one another. It must be easier to rest your head on somebody’s shoulder when you’re not afraid they’ll misinterpret it. It’s common, as a queer woman, to worry that you’re a threat." Anna Kate Blair on queering friendships and opening up a more expansive understanding of relationships beyond 'platonic' or 'romantic'.

16.01.2022 My relationship with masturbation changed radically once I transitioned into a high school environment. I started to realise that all around me, girls my age seemed to think that masturbation was degrading and disgusting but only if you were a woman. Finula Greene on the stigmas that surround female sexuality, and learning how to push back against them.

15.01.2022 "Learning to write about gender without using the framework we currently have has pushed me to ask the big questions: What is it that creates maleness and femaleness? What makes both or neither? What drives people to pursue medical transition if bodies aren’t inherently gendered?" Jay Bowman on masculinity and gender expression.

15.01.2022 "Tinder opened my eyes to how many fish are in the sea. What had started as a distraction soon became an obsession. Behind every match stood another, better, newer, more interesting and more exciting match." In Emma Hardy's piece from 2016, she reflects on her stint of swipes on Tinder. http://archermagazine.com.au//rekindling-old-flames-refle/

14.01.2022 The world might be a slightly simpler place if everyone adopted this relationship philosophy (a thought I realise is an unattainable fantasy), but implementing some of these ideas into relationships can be beneficial for all people traditional monogamists, radical non-monogamists, and everyone in between. Sara Brezinski on the appeal of a radical relationship style.

14.01.2022 "I found myself conforming to the typical societal expectations of a cis woman and judging myself and my body much more harshly than I ever had when I was with other queers. I have never felt so self-conscious or more expectations to be more 'feminine'. I found myself apologising for taking a while to cum or not cumming at all. I found myself making sure I was always wearing matching lingerie and makeup. I didn’t feel like me and I always felt like I was 'on'." Sonya Krzywoszyja on dating outside of the queer community.

14.01.2022 These days, I identify as a polyamorous atheist. But I have to admit that my seriousness about sex, my insistence on talking about it, writing about it and asserting its centrality in human experience, is another way of living out the beliefs I was raised with as a child that body and soul are deeply, inextricably connected, and that sex has a spiritual dimension. Rochelle Siemienowicz writes on religion, sexuality, and how her identity has been shaped by both.

13.01.2022 "Coming out is often presented as something that only the LGBTQ person has to journey through, but I was not the only one who had to navigate complicated feelings, new concepts and the opinions of other people..." Kristin Russo, founder of Everyone Is Gay, offers some advice for all involved in the coming-out process. We published this piece in 2016 but it continues to hold so much relevance.

12.01.2022 "Sexual assault is a topic that invites opinions, and I didn’t want to open myself up to unsaid criticism from other people. Especially when I was giving myself plenty of criticism already." Mike Hitch writes on the complex experience of shame after sexual assault and the process of coming to understand, and work through, the thoughts surrounding it.

11.01.2022 "I want you to imagine what it was like for me to read this: 'Her speech had a masculine quality.' I’ve been through a lot, but I have never felt so much anger, resentment and despair. Recovering from the surgery physically was a long and slow process that took unfathomable strength, but the moment I read those words still stands out as the worst part of the entire process."... Joni Nelson writes about being harmed by the World Professional Association for Transgender Health standards that were supposed to care for her.

10.01.2022 To launch Issue 14 of Archer and in celebration of GiveOUT Day 2020, we’re hosting a digital event! Bring your friends, family and lovers to your living room to celebrate and donate to Archer, and support queer media, on Friday 16 October. #giveoutdayAU giveout.org.au/archermagazine

08.01.2022 Seeing ourselves in a glossy magazine helps us feel proud of who we are. Celebrate diversity. Support Archer on Friday 16 October or before and your donations will be matched dollar for dollar. #giveoutdayAU Donate: https://giveout.org.au/archermagazine Attend our digital event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1400474480294568/

08.01.2022 We asked you what you appreciate about Archer! Support Archer and help us keep doing what you love on GiveOUT Day. Donations will be matched dollar for dollar. #giveoutdayAU https://giveout.org.au/archermagazine

08.01.2022 While for people with penises access to contraception is as simple as buying a pack of condoms at the local petrol station, it seems ridiculous that people with other bodies are made to go through hoops for the same thing. Nikita Skuse writes on access to the contraceptive pill, and those working to improve it.

07.01.2022 "Any arguments for school uniforms have long been outweighed by how uniforms can negatively affect students who feel disconnected with the gender roles schools attempt to perpetuate." Dean Amo on the impacts the school system can have on gender diverse people.

07.01.2022 ARCHER WEEK DAY 3: In the lead up to our digital party on Friday 16 October, we’d love to highlight our amazing performers. Our party will kick off at 5:30pm on Friday arvo with GRUMBLE BOOGIE, an aerobic dizko dance class led by the famous Betty Grumble. Believing in ceremony and thanking the body, BETTY GRUMBLE harnesses fuck energy, rage energy, love energy and hope energy in the complexity of her body as a political and playful site. A maniacal feminist contagion and ecos...exual, her award winning work has been critically lauded across the board. From the polished stages of Belvoir St & Griffin Theatre's and Sydney Opera House, to the swampy dens of Sydney’s Queer Underground and International Fringes and Festivals. Grumble is a founding member of performance gangs Gang of She and Working Bitches, she has an MFA in Fine Arts/Arse, her practice bounces from stage to street, screen to shawomanic ceremony. A personal critter and mantric wish towards Love Energy. Are you Betty to Grumble? https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/archer-magazine-issue-14-la

07.01.2022 "When I imagine the future, a transqueer one that seems so tantalisingly close, it’s like I can feel the person I’ll be, reaching backwards and egging me on to make them real." Jocelyn Deane on visions of trans and queer utopias in virtual spaces like Animal Crossing and Stardew Valley.

06.01.2022 When bisexual people are accused of being too vocal, or taking up too much queer space, the question that lingers for me now is: why do we imagine that there is only finite space with which to celebrate queerness? Why would validating someone else’s existence invalidate anyone else’s? Hannah McCann on why today’s Bisexual Visibility Day should be about making bi+ existence possible. #BiVisibilityDay

06.01.2022 "It is funny to watch a show that’s supposed to be about lesbians and not feel even kind of represented. A lot of shows are trying to break lesbian stereotypes by casting people who are hyper-feminine, leaving a large portion of the community in the lurch." Katy O'Brian talks to Zenobia Frost about queer representation on TV and fighting zombies.

05.01.2022 "I’ve lost count of how many times people have described me as ‘sweet’, ‘innocent’, or ‘pure’ after my lack of sexual experience has become apparent. Never ‘cool’, never ‘hot’, never anything that might denote a sexual attractiveness in me. Is it because my inexperience renders me inappropriate to don a label related to sex? Or am I seen as incapable of sexual desire unless willing to act upon it?" Phoebe Lupton writes on sexual inexperience, the reactions others have to her choices, and working through shame.

05.01.2022 ARCHER WEEK DAY 4: GIVEAWAY Archer is launching Issue 14 and participating in GiveOUT Day 2020, a fundraising day for LGBT+ organisations, this Friday! We’d love to keep representing marginalised voices in glossy print, so help us help you by donating! To share this message and our fundraiser, we’re running a competition where you can win a stack of Archer goodies. To enter: donate to our GiveOUT Day fundraiser on Friday 16 October, and you could win an Archer gift pack and ...a $100 Nikki Darling voucher! *You must donate on Friday 16 October to be eligible to win, as GiveOUT are matching donations on that day! Every dollar counts. Nikki Darling is Australia's first gender-free sexual health and pleasure store, founded by Lauren Clair with the belief that sex toys are for every body and that pleasure is a human right. Nikki Darling has been busy fostering fun and approachable spaces for sex education and retail services without any of the traditional sales tactics or pressures since 2015. Nikki Darling believes in a non-prescriptive approach to sex and pleasure and is dedicated to helping you find the right resources to meet your individual needs, and is proud to work with community partners who share our values regarding inclusivity, diversity and progress. You can find Nikki Darling online at nikkidarling.com.au, or by searching nikkidarlingau on the socials. Winner will be announced during our digital event! https://giveout.org.au/archermagazine

03.01.2022 "We find that in working with LGBTIQA+ people, if they become accustomed to experiences of transphobia, homophobia or biphobia in their day-to-day life, it becomes difficult to separate or identify abusive behaviours and attitudes within their personal lives." We spoke to Karen Field from WithRespect, the first LGBTIQA+ specialist family violence service. Check out WithRespect.org.au to learn what family and intimate partner violence looks like, where to go for support and se...rvices (1800 LGBTIQ), and how you might support a friend or family member you suspect could be in an abusive situation. There is also an after-hours telecounselling and webchat service operated by Switchboard, where people can speak to someone about all things relating to relationships. For more information, go to WithRespect.org.au. This article first appeared in Archer Magazine #14, the GROWING UP issue.

02.01.2022 Our digital party is coming up! We’d love to see you there, and if you buy a ticket this week (by Friday 9 October) you could win a $100 Nikki Darling voucher! Nikki Darling is Australia's first gender-free sexual health and pleasure store, founded by Lauren Clair with the belief that sex toys are for every body and that pleasure is a human right. Nikki Darling has been busy fostering fun and approachable spaces for sex education and retail services without any of the tradit...ional sales tactics or pressures since 2015. Nikki Darling believes in a non-prescriptive approach to sex and pleasure and is dedicated to helping you find the right resources to meet your individual needs, and is proud to work with community partners who share our values regarding inclusivity, diversity and progress. You can find Nikki Darling online at nikkidarling.com.au, or by searching nikkidarlingau on the socials. We’ll email the winner on Saturday 10 October! You can buy tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/archer-magazine-issue-14-la

01.01.2022 ARCHER WEEK: Our Archer Issue 14 digital launch and fundraising event is coming up, so we want to highlight the amazing work we do at Archer for a week! We asked you what you love about Archer support Archer and help us keep doing what you love. Also, we’ve emailed the winner of our giveaway! Don’t worry if you missed out, we’ve got another giveaway coming up this week. ... https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/archer-magazine-issue-14-la