2023/12/06 by Carmen Celestini, Amarnath Amarasingam · 1 voice
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #Gothic Literature and Media Analysis #Media, Religion, Digital Communication #Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices
paper · doi:10.1177/00084298231209700
openalex publication_date 2023/12/06 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/21
Romano Didulo, the self-proclaimed Queen of Canada, gained notoriety as an influencer online within the QAnon conspiracy movement. Taking advantage of both the pandemic and the silence of Q (the anonymous online persona behind what became the QAnon movement), Didulo has created a movement of her own. Didulo relies on a religious movement from the theosophical traditions of the 1930s and 1940s: the I AM movement, which was started by Guy Ballard and his wife Edna Anne Wheeler Ballard after Guy Ballard had a mystical encounter with Saint Germain on Mount Shasta in California. The movement’s title comes from God’s words to Moses in Exodus 3:14 – ‘I am who I am’ – and encompasses Christian dogma, occultism, eastern religions and New Age mysticism. While there is much to examine about Queen Didulo – her conspiracism, her anti-government agitation, and so on – the authors argue here that there is something at the core of all of this that has yet to be fully articulated: Didulo’s religious pedigree.