Is Ezra Miller in the NXIVM Cult?
The parents of 18-year-old activist Tokata/Gibson Iron Eyes have accused actor Ezra Miller, 29, of grooming their child with cult-like behaviour. According to Dr. Sara Jumping Eagle and Chase Iron Eyes, Miller has been manipulating and controlling Tokata/Gibson since the two met at Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota back in 2016, when Tokata/Gibson was only 12-years-old.
According to PEOPLE, Tokata/Gibson’s parents stated in documents that Miller offered to pay for Tokata/Gibson to attend college early at 16 at Bard College at Simon’s Rock in Massachusetts. Miller would later use this against Tokata/Gibson to create a sense of indebtedness.
When this story was first brought to my attention, I couldn’t help but notice the similarities between Ezra’s recruitment of Tokata/Gibson and my own experience with being recruited by the NXIVM cult as a queer and disabled reconnecting Indigenous person.
I am a reconnecting Biawaisa (Two-Spirit) Taíno survivor who has been cyberstalked & harassed by the NXIVM cult and other affiliated alt-right organisations on social media since 2017 (possibly earlier) because of my intersecting identities and activism.
I was unknowingly being recruited by actors Christopher Lambert (who can be found in Jeffrey Epstein’s little black book) and Diane Lane’s daughter, Eleanor Jasmine Lambert and her best friend Shelby Lorman, the author of the book and viral Instagram account @awardsforgoodboys.
NXIVM
NXIVM is an American cult that engages in sex trafficking, forced labor and racketeering. Based in Clifton Park, New York, a suburb of Saratoga County, NXIVM purported to be a multi-level marketing company that offered personal and professional development seminars through its “Executive Success Programs” of large-group awareness training. The company is a recruiting platform for a secret society called “DOS” in which women are branded and forced into sexual slavery.
MEMETICS
Many NXIVM recruiters are affiliated with Heterodox Academy, a group of 5,000+ professors, administrators, K-12 educators, staff & students who believe “diverse viewpoints and open inquiry are critical to research and learning.” They have representatives at colleges and universities all over the world. It is speculated to be a re-branding of Campus Reform, funded by the Koch Family.
Heterodox Academy uses memetics, the study of memes, to infiltrate marginalised communities and indoctrinate vulnerable people into the alt-right by using a behaviour changing technology called neurolinguistic programming. When I noticed that both Ezra Miller and Gibson Iron Eyes started responding to the grooming and cult allegations with memes, I looked a little deeper and here is what I found.
Ezra was paying for Tokata/Gibson to attend Bard College, a private liberal arts college that has a network of over 35 affiliated programs, institutes, and centers, spanning twelve cities, five states, seven countries, and four continents. Bard College is home to the Bard Meme Lab.
According to their website, The Bard Memetics Laboratory, aka the Bard Meme Lab, “provides a space for examining online culture through the lenses of cinema and media studies, the experimental humanities, cognitive science, and the visual arts. By analyzing not just the content of memes but their very form, and through a focus on understanding meme creators themselves as artists, the Lab engages with the contemporary networked world to produce original research, publications, events, software, and other interventions.”
I have found plenty of mutual connections between students/writers/creators/researchers at the Bard Meme Lab and the influencers who were recruiting me for NXIVM.
DOG WHISTLES
NXIVM and affiliated alt-right organisations use many dog whistles to signal to each other, consisting of specific imagery, emojis, and terminology most wouldn’t notice unless you were looking for it. Here is a small list of some of the emoji dog whistles that are used:
And here are the dogwhistles I found while skimming through Tokata/Gibson’s following list on their instagram:
Here is an example of Tokata/Gibson sharing a meme with the image of Pepe the frog, the most popular alt-right symbol which has been declared a hate symbol by the ADL:
Here is an example of Tokata/Gibson sharing an Instagram reel from The Wellness Therapist, Azadeh Ghafari, an Instagram account connected to the NXIVM cult that I have experienced ongoing harassment from:
Ghafari poses as a leftist progressive therapist, health professional, and QAnon cult expert on social media, however she is actually a Neo-Nazi who subscribes to the The Aryan Myth of Iran and works with NXIVM and Heterodox Academy to surveil marginalised communities and spread misinformation using Pastel QAnon tactics.
The peace sign on The Wellness Therapist logo is a V-sign, a hand gesture NXIVM cult members use to signal Victory and the Vow they have made to their Vanguard (cult leader) Keith Raniere.
VICE
Tokata/Gibson follows a few instagram accounts connected to VICE, a Canadian-American magazine focused on lifestyle, arts, culture, and news/politics:
My recruiter Eleanor Lambert wrote this article about my other recruiter Shelby Lorman in VICE to bring more people to her platform. Many people affiliated with VICE, such as writer Roslyn Talusan and former senior editor Sarah Berman, have gone out of their way to participate in a smear campaign against me since I first began speaking openly about my experience. Their main goal appears to be to dismantle my credibility as a survivor of their abuse.
VICE was co-founded by the founder of the Proud Boys. The Proud Boys and NXIVM are affiliated organisations through Trump’s former advisor Roger Stone.
TARGETING OF INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES
There is a clear pattern of NXIVM, Heterodox Academy, and affiliated organisations infiltrating Indigenous movements through many social media accounts such as the following:
These accounts are shown here because they have either elevated the work of astroturfing white supremacists (i.e.: @decolonizemyself often shares the work of Neo-Nazi Jay Marquis-Manicom Lesoleil) or they are connected to the same influencers who have been harassing me for speaking out against NXIVM, Heterodox Academy, and affiliated right wing organisations (such as The Wellness Therapist). Some of these accounts used to share my posts and even used to be social media mutuals with me before my first Instagram account @caitdissociates was mass-reported and banned.
I believe these accounts/organisations are either unknowingly infiltrated, or they simply exist to surveil and de-fang Indigenous social justice movements across social media.
WEAPONISATION OF IDPOL
Another tactic used by the cult is the weaponisation of identity politics when attempts of accountability are made. In this case Ezra has clearly coached Tokata/Gibson in weaponising claims of transphobia against their loved ones in order to take attention away from the real matter at hand — the fact that Ezra has groomed Tokata/Gibson into a cult by co-opting social justice language and activism.
You may notice that many celebrities and influencers will change their pronouns amidst controversy so that they can distract from their behaviour. It is a popular PR tactic that has been used by every single writer, influencer, and celebrity whose involvement with NXIVM I’ve questioned. They state they are <insert marginalised identity here> so they can’t possibly be a part of this cult and therefore I am racist/transphobic/you name it for even suggesting so. No one is immune to being indoctrinated into a white supremacy, no matter your identity.
ROCKLAND COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL
Both Ezra Miller and NXIVM cult leader Keith Raniere are listed as notable alumni at Rockland Country Day School, a private co-ed college-preparatory school located in Congers, New York.
In November of 2018 while discussing the #MeToo movement, Ezra told The Hollywood Reporter “‘Cause, like, we all knew it was unacceptable when we fucking survived it. That’s what Hollywood is. I thought we all knew we were sex workers.” Is it possible that Ezra was groomed and recruited by NXIVM while attending Rockland Country Day School?
WEAPONISATION OF MENTAL HEALTH
Cult members are trained in two-sided operations, where they pretend to be the friend of a victim while harassing them from other social media accounts anonymously — all while emotionally supporting them through it despite being the source of abuse. This is how members trauma-bond with their recruiters and other members of the cult. Keith Raniere’s incel beliefs and teachings paired with the fact that many influencers involved participate in suicide-baiting anyone who speaks out against the cult points to serious danger. The NXIVM cult is a suicide risk.
There is a serious lack of education around internet safety and cult tactics. Many of the current mainstream “cult experts” and people in tech who are supposed to be protecting our data are involved in cult indoctrination, unethical data collection, and targeted social media harassment themselves. I share my experience in hopes of reaching anyone who might not know what is happening to them yet.
