# The Conspiracist Cure for What Ails Middle-Aged White Women with Noelle Cook

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Podcast: [Conspiracy, She Wrote](https://stenobird.com/podcast/conspiracy-she-wrote-6962346)
Published: 2026-05-30T13:30:00+00:00
Episode link: http://conspiracyshewrote.com
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## Resource

After unknowingly showing up at a Capitol insurrection, ethnographer Noelle Cook spent years embedded with the women arrested for January 6th — not grifters and influencers, the true believers. Her new book, The Conspiracists: Women, Extremism and the Lure of Belonging , follows two: Yvonne, a self-proclaimed starseed and sovereign citizen who considers the J6 pardons divine vindication, and Tammy, who showed up for the community and never really left. As Noelle details to Cristen, the paths that led them there map the pandemic’s alt-health tipping point, conspirituality’s empowerment trap, and how conspiracy functions as a coping mechanism and connection machine for middle-aged women that culture makes invisible. Sources: conspiracyshewrote.com/episodes Inbox: conspiracyshewrote@gmail.com Instagram: @unladylikemedia Website: conspiracyshewrote.com Patreon: The Cabal Conspiracy, She Wrote is an Unladylike Media production created, hosted and written by Cristen Conger. Music is from Blue Dot Sessions. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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