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Crossing the Chiasm: Queering the Ontology of the Chiasm in Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology

Hypatia September 21, 2026 River J. Heisler

Abstract Embodiment is a particularly difficult dimension of experience to capture for transgender individuals, particularly individuals who identify as nonbinary. Accounts of embodiment in both philosophy and psychology often fail to capture the layers of perplexity which nonbinary individuals experience when attempting to understand the relationship between the lived body and social...

In Defence of Ritual Erotics without Consent: Pagan Sex Ethics and the Costs of Knowing What is Coming

Hypatia July 6, 2026 Georgi Gardiner

Abstract The “affirmative consent model” for sexual acts requires that participants give explicit, unambiguous, informed, and enthusiastic consent. This model is a valuable harm reduction practice but, as a pre-requisite for erotic action, it is sometimes over-applied. As a result, people can feel unduly constrained and forgo valuable activities. I introduce a case study, the Pagan fertility...

DOI: 10.1017/hyp.2026.10073 (opens in new tab) Full text (opens in new tab) Sexual ethics Harm Mythology Magic telescope +8