The weird lie animating the right-wing womanosphere
Earlier this month, Katie Miller launched her new podcast with a specific origin myth. Miller, a former Trump administration official and wife of Stephen Miller, declared that by creating a lifestyle podcast for conservative women, she was filling a hole in the media ecosystem.
“For years, I’ve seen that there isn’t a place for conservative women to gather online,” Miller said in a video posted to X. Her caption added, “As a mom of three young kids, who eats healthy, goes to the gym, works full time, I know there isn’t a podcast for women like myself.”
This claim happens to be deeply untrue. Conservative women have arguably never had more places to gather online and talk about their lifestyle concerns — especially when it comes to motherhood and wellness. This media ecosystem has recently been dubbed the “womanosphere,” and it is booming.
Conservatives can go to Evie, the right-wing answer to Cosmopolitan, which has attracted plentiful mainstream media attention. They can get their celebrity gossip with a healthy strain of reactionary conspiracy theories from Candace Owens. They can get anti-feminist cultural commentary from YouTubers like Brett Cooper. They can get MAHA-inflected health care advice from Alex Clark’s Culture Apothecary talk show. They can hear anti-trans sports commentary on Riley Gaines’s Gaines for Girls. They can watch the agrarian fantasies of tradwives like Ballerina Farm’s Hannah Neeleman. And they can listen to conservative women’s lifestyle podcasts, like Christian influencer Allie Beth Stuckey’s Relatable. Many of these women, by dint of their jobs as full-time content creators and podcasters, are also working moms, © Vox
