Canonical archive
The full paper archive is on Academia.edu.
Use this page as a guide. Published work appears first, work in progress stays visible, and each entry shows its status clearly. For the larger public list, use Academia.edu.
Papers and publications
Papers, chapters, and work in progress.
This site offers a selected index of the research. Academia.edu holds the larger archive.
Archive span
2014-2026
Years currently covered in the on-site index.
Published
6
Entries presented as published articles or chapters.
Manuscript-stage
2
Records kept visible while circulation and publication paths develop.
This site offers a selected index of Martin Lepage's papers, while Academia.edu holds the larger public archive. The work focuses on legitimacy, identity, ritual, media, and authority. It begins with research on Montreal pagan communities and continues into media criticism and governance writing. The through-line is simple: how power becomes believable, and what happens when people have to live with it.
Archive guide
Archive logic
This site is a guided index, not a full repository. Published work and work in progress appear together, but each record clearly shows its status.
Archive guide
Themes
The recurring themes are queer and transgender identity, ritual legitimacy, authenticity, gendered power, and authority. Even when the subject changes, the main question stays the same: how does power become understandable and defensible?
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Continuities
The earlier work grows out of doctoral research on Montreal pagan communities. The newer writing extends that work into media analysis and governance. It is one continuing line of inquiry, not a separate track.
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Published work appears first, and work in progress stays visible with clear status labels.
Book chapter
Ritualités queer néo-païennes: méthodologies de l'expérience et du récit
Études rituelles. Nouveaux sentiers · Published book chapter
A book chapter on queer neopagan ritualities that argues experience and narrative are methodological sites where ritual life becomes interpretable and socially legible.
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(Neo-)Shamanism(s) and Gender: Narratives from the Montreal Pagan Community
Lithuanian Journal of Anthropology · Published article; citation details pending
An analysis of gendered narratives in the Montreal pagan community through contemporary neo-shamanic practice, with attention to storytelling, identity, and community formation.
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Queerness and Transgender Identity: Negotiations in the Pagan Community of Montreal
Studies in Religion / Sciences Religieuses · Published journal article
A study of how queer and transgender identities are negotiated, recognized, and contested inside Montreal pagan communities.
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Religiosités queer néo-païennes et la question de l'authenticité dans la Wicca
Religiologiques · Published journal article
An analysis of queer neopagan religiosities in Wiccan contexts that treats authenticity as a lived and contested problem rather than a stable category.
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Les fées dansent autour du Mont-Royal. Magie et négociations queer chez les néo-païens de Montréal
Anthropologica · Published
Co-authored with François Gauthier, this article examines how magic, place, and queer negotiation intersect in the ritual lives of Montreal neopagans.
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A Lokian Family: Queer and Pagan Agency in Montreal
The Pomegranate: The International Journal of Pagan Studies · Published
A study of queer pagan kinship in Montreal that uses the idea of a Lokian family to show how ritual identity, belonging, and agency are made collectively rather than inherited.
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Magic After Legitimacy: Witchcraft, Sisterhood, and the Work of Power in Charmed
Manuscript in circulation · Manuscript in circulation
An article-length reading of Charmed as a fantasy of female power that is symbolically affirmed yet structurally overburdened, contained, and never fully supported.
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Who's the Boob, Who's the Trap?
Book manuscript in development · Publication work in development
A book-length AI governance manuscript that uses the trap as a structural model for how institutions prearrange harm, distribute burden, and narrow the terms of appeal.
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