Pinkwashing, polyamory + butt politics: Most-read stories of 2016


I

t’s the conclusion of a huge year for queer area, scattered with highs and lows, wins and setbacks, development and what can oftentimes feel regression.

While in the end-of-year celebrations, make sure to look for each other, and seek out hugs and friends if they think required.

At Archer Magazine HQ, we’ve had a large 12 months, as well. In Summer, we founded all of our
SHE/HERS concern
, stuffed with tales by feminine identifying folks. This month, we established our very own
THEY/THEIRS issue
, spotlighting the encounters of non-binary and gender-queer people.

We varied our mags in Germany the very first time, put on events in Adelaide, Sydney and Melbourne, extended our
volunteer group
, and posted a whole bunch of diverse voices regarding subject areas that interest us a lot of: intercourse, sex and identity.

Check-out a few of our most-read posts, the following. We’re always curious observe repeats from
just last year’s record
, including stories about
drug-use in queer communities
,
polyamory
and
getting Aboriginal and gay
.

As usual, we are in love with our very own members and readers. I really hope the holiday season delivers you-all quite a few cuddles and a break from clutches of capitalism.

We will see you next calendar year.


Amy Middleton could be the founding publisher and publisher of Archer mag.

The 10 most-read tales of 2016


1. The pinkwashing of Melbourne ‘Pride’
by Bobuq Sayed

Queer and trans protesters affect the Midsumma Pride march.

“The protest during that year’s annual delight march in Melbourne, and also the aggressive impulse it subsequently was given, pulls crucial attention to the ethical compromises the queer community has made to achieve the energy, financing and presence we now have.”
Find Out More…


2. Managing crystal meth: tina and homosexual men
by Nic Holas

“Tina is sensible due to the fact drug of preference for gay men post-AIDS. The drug removes the barriers to satisfaction and intimacy that have built up over three decades of HIV.” (released 2015)
Read more…


3. Assimilation, fetishisation plus the challenge with white queer activism
by Muhammed Taha

“several times in a queer collective, i am expected to make sure that my queerness. Merely a white queer activist could check some body they don’t really understand and decide just how queer they’ve been.”
Read more…

Picture: David Maurice Smith

This post: /gay-chat-room.html


4. Homosexuality and Aboriginal society: a lore unto themselves
by Steven Lindsay Ross

“if you are Aboriginal, you are usually reminded of your own distinction… When you’re Aboriginal and homosexual, you will find levels of distinction and this can be frustrating for a lot of.”
Read more…


5. a lady’s work: Intercourse as a fat girl
by Maeve Marsden

“understanding how to make use of my body system as a thing that could bring joy and pleasure to other individuals, as opposed to as a niche site of frustration or discomfort, had been bloody persistence.”
Read more…


6. backside politics: The difficulties of rectal intercourse
by Dion Kagan

“The rectum is actually related to an envisioned ‘feminine’ passivity, and, as even the a lot of amateurish Freudian will say to you, feminine passivity is actually the antithesis of phallic masculinity.”
Find Out More…

Pair engage intimately on bed. Picture: 道格拉斯 林奇. Pic licensed under artistic Commons 2.0.


7. Non-penetrative sex: Shame, heteronormativity and climaxing minus the location
by Xiaoran Shi

“it is vital to determine the significantly challenging areas with informed advocacy for non-penetrative intercourse, especially for females, as well as how these types of repressive causes have actually provided towards the continuous fetishisation of penetrative gender.”
Read more…


8. adoring myself personally: exactly how self pleasure helped me realize I was queer
by Deirdre Fidge

“it was not until I became 24, freshly single after an union, that I bought myself personally a present. It was available in a discreet unlabelled bundle and I also finalized for it with moving arms, as if I’d bought a kidney from the black-market.”
Find Out More…


9. The pleasure of polyamory
by Anne Hunter

“initially, we didn’t have an expression for just what we had been doing – all I understood had been that i did not want to be monogamous. I happened to ben’t contemplating the forms of non-monogamy I currently realized of. I did not desire to move: I found myselfn’t into gender because of its very own sake.”
Find Out More…


10. Polyamory: The each and every day facts to be deeply in love with two people at a time
by AngelBaby

” we easily fell deeply in love with being in really love with many individuals simultaneously – it actually was wonderful, therefore the more I liked, the more really love I experienced provide.  I never ever got perplexed, never ever also known as some body the wrong title and do not thought jeopardized during my emotions for almost any of my personal lovers.”
Read more…

Join Archer Mag right here