Arts & Culture
“Magic is queer and queerness is magic”: an interview with Misha Magdalene
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Erick DuPree interviews Misha Magdalene, author of Outside the Charmed Circle: Exploring Gender and Sexuality in Magical Practice.
Paganism
Opinion: Sex Magic and Collective Shame
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As a gay man who has enjoyed a rich and varied sex life, I can tell you that this was certainly not the first time that someone has tried to slut-shame me, but it was the first to do so in a book review. (So, give them points for creativity, I suppose.)
Paganism
Column: Is That a Maypole in Your Pocket, or Are You Just Happy to See Me?
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Storm Faerywolf on how to look at Beltane, often interpreted as a celebration of heterosexual fertility, in a queer light as a festival concerned with all kinds of pleasure.
Book Reviews
Book Review: Sexuality and New Religious Movements
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Review: Sexuality and New Religious Movements. (Part of the Palgrave Studies in New Religions and Alternative Spiritualities series) Edited by Henrik Bogdan and James R. Lewis. (Palgrave Macmillan, 252 Pages)
Few topics can stir us as quickly as sex or sexuality, particularly when it is different from what is assumed to be “right.” Perhaps this is one reason that Sexuality and New Religious Movements is such an engaging read. According to the editors, Henrik Bogdan and James R. Lewis:
Sexuality is intimately connected to questions of identity: who we are as individuals and also our role in society. Human sexuality is thus inextricably linked to cultural, political, and philosophical aspects of life, which are regulated through legal systems based on morality and ethics.