12: So You Want To Stop Child Abuse

Theo Wildcroft and Regan Williams join the conversation to discuss real-world ways to stop child abuse.

Last week, we started to explore how the real issue of child trafficking is being weaponized by bad-faith actors. This week we’re joined by two experts that explain the overt and subtle impacts involved.

Regan Williams, CEO and founder of Seen & Heard, a nonprofit that provides youth in foster care with professional and personal development via the performing arts, offers a ground zero perspective of trafficked children and teens (and the people that actually care for them) being made even more invisible by conspiratorial clicktivism.

Religious Studies scholar and trauma-sensitive yoga consultant, Dr. Theo Wildcroft, joins us from England to discuss the consequences of trauma histories being hijacked for political and emotional manipulation. She offers insight into the mythic elements of conspirituality-to-Q that cannot be ignored if we want to understand how trauma is both stored and resisted.

On This Week in Conspirituality, Matthew considers the absurdity of David Wolfe accusing the medical community of not doing anything about cancer. Julian investigates anti-Semitic blood libel themes in QAnon and Derek discusses the chronic dangers of seeking utopia.

Show segments

06:53 This Week in Conspirituality

54:12 Interview with Regan Williams

1:14:37 Interview discussion

1:18:27 Interview with Theo Wildcroft

2:04:42 Interview discussion

All music by EarthRise SoundSystem (Duke Schommer + Derek Beres)

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Show Notes

To report abuse/neglect, call the child abuse hotline: 800.540.4000 (LA county) / 800.422.4453 (National)

Epstein is a real pedophile. Why are QAnon and Pizzagate so focused on fake ones?

The Dark Virality of a Hollywood Blood-Harvesting Conspiracy

Just how anti-Semitic is QAnon?

QAnon isn’t newly anti-Semitic—it’s always been that way

Q supporters are incorrectly doxxing journalists who report on QAnon as Jewish

Nearly 600,000 people have voted for candidates who support QAnon

Here are the QAnon supporters running for Congress in 2020 

QAnon Supporter Who Made Bigoted Videos Wins Ga. Primary, Likely Heading To Congress

Prominent Republicans back a conspiracy theory-promoting congressional candidate in Georgia

Argentino on Qanon’s spread to 71 countries worldwide

Trump is a lightworker sent to destroy all of the systems of the Cabal

Contrary to Lorie Ladd’s claim that Trump is the only President to ever address trafficking

The 25 women who have accused Trump of sexual misconduct

Tracking David Wolfe

The Pistol or the Yoga Mat

The Imprints of Sexual Trauma: How the COVID-19 Pandemic May Trigger Survivors

Yoga with Theo Wildcroft

Theo’s doctoral thesis: Patterns of Authority and Practice Relationships in ‘Post-Lineage Yoga’

Seen & Heard

Support anti-trafficking organizations by donating to Saving Innocence, which runs the continuum of care from rescue to recovery, Zoe, a reputable faith-based organization, and Two Wings, which helps with rehabilitate female survivors

Nola Brantley offers in-person and online trainings to help combat the commercial sexual exploitation of children

Rebecca Bender is a trafficking survivor that runs “Myth Busters,” which combats conspiracy theory disinformation

The National Center of Missing and Exploited Children

Operation Underground Railroad 

Defend Innocence offers tips for parents and caregivers to keep kids safe