(S4,E2) Wellness, Racism and White Yoga Instructors
Why do some wellness practitioners end up as vaccine hesitant and others end up as Neo-Nazi extremists? This week on Pop Culture Boner we’re looking at the conspirituality and the wellness to white supremacy pipeline.
You can find a full list of references here:
Charlotte Ward & Prof. David Voas (2011, Journal of Contemporary Religion, Vol.26) - The Emergence of Conspirituality
Amanda Montell (2021) - Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
Nicholas Goodwin-Clarke (2004) - The occult roots of Nazism: Secret Aryan cults and their influence on Nazi ideology
Kate Raphael (2020, Hardvard Global Health Institute) - Racial bias in medicine
Nicole Cardoza (2019, Quartz) - The cover shoot that brought me face to face with racism in the wellness industry
Kelly Gonsalves (2020, The Cut) - Wellness doesn’t belong to white women
Kathleen Belew (2022, The Atlantic) - The crunchy to alt-right pipeline
Max Hay (2021, The Daily Beast) - The sneaky, disturbing world of white nationalist wellness
You can download the full transcript here.