Illuminati Influencer Queens, pt. 1
Unladylike
Unladylike Media
4.8 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 6 September 2022
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
The pod’s officially back, and Cristen’s officially fallen down the conspiracy theory rabbit hole. For research! From the "grand dame of modern conspiracy theory" to moms "saving girls' sports," women spreading conspiracies goes deep, it’s a two-parter. Cristen spends this episode with women’s historian Erin M. Kempker who details how predominantly white suburban women were mainstreaming right-wing, antifeminist conspiracy theories way before QAnon and Canva.
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| 0:00.0 | Starbeams I do. |
| 0:02.5 | When I got to the archives, |
| 0:04.8 | quite frankly, I was totally baffled |
| 0:07.6 | by how much conspiracy there was in all of these organizations |
| 0:12.2 | that I was reading, in the newsletters that I was reading. |
| 0:15.6 | And I really couldn't figure out one, |
| 0:18.4 | what were they talking about? |
| 0:19.7 | I could not make much sense of that. |
| 0:22.0 | And then two, why wasn't anybody else talking |
| 0:24.4 | about what these women were talking about |
| 0:26.3 | because it's all they were talking about? |
| 0:30.3 | ンダh |
| 0:51.4 | Welcome to Unladylike. I'm your host, Kristen Conger. I'm so happy it has been a minute |
| 1:04.9 | friends. The podcast has been on a bit of a hiatus since early spring, in case you didn't |
| 1:13.8 | know. And I got to tell you, I was a bit flimaxed at first thinking about where to even begin. |
| 1:24.0 | How do we even catch up on everything? You can't see me, but I am gesturing my arms at all |
| 1:34.4 | of this. I mean, do we start with anti-abortion? Do we start with transphobia? Run a mock? Don't |
| 1:42.9 | say gay, white Christian nationalism. How about girlies on TikTok, insisting that feminism |
| 1:48.9 | simply can't women out of the plush stay at home hashtag housewife life? Then I thought, why |
| 1:57.0 | don't we start with something that all of those dumpster fires have in common? And that is |
| 2:05.9 | conspiracy theories. Specifically, conspiracy theories centered around and spread by women. |
| 2:16.0 | Now not everyone who is out to allegedly save girl sports or shut down abortion clinics |
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