<p>This week, Peta and Gemma pick-up a conversation started by Canadian journalist Geoff Turner about Ozempic in his CBC podcast 'On Drugs'.  Ozempic and similar brands (GLP-1s) are a pharamaceutical drug that have been described as the viagra of our generation. We disucss the implications of trying to medicate the population against stigma. This episode went to air Monday 24th November 2025. </p>

This week, Peta and Gemma pick-up a conversation started by Canadian journalist Geoff Turner about Ozempic in his CBC podcast 'On Drugs'. Ozempic and similar brands (GLP-1s) are a pharamaceutical drug that have been described as the viagra of our generation. We disucss the implications of trying to medicate the population against stigma. This episode went to air Monday 24th November 2025.

#85 A Drug for Our Times

Two First Nations lawyers in a studio with LOTS to say. Blaksiders is the no-holds-barred conversation about news and current affairs that hosts Gemma McKinnon and Peta MacGillivray feel like talking about.
 
Gemma McKinnon is a Barkindji woman, a mother of 6, and an Aries. Gemma likes administrative law and country music. She recently moved to the Blue Mountains and is learning to care for chickens.

Peta MacGillivray is a Kalkutungu and South Sea Islander woman who grew up in Central Queensland. Peta is now a die-hard Sydney-sider, who loves finding the city’s best breakfast sandwiches. She also likes indie R&B and collecting vinyl records.

Blaksiders is produced on Gadigal land at 2SER 107.3FM

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Two First Nations lawyers in a studio with LOTS to say. Blaksiders is the no-holds-barred conversation about news and current affairs that hosts Gemma McKinnon and Peta MacGillivray feel like talking about. Gemma McKinnon is a Barkindji woman, a mother of 6, and an Aries. Gemma likes administrative law and country music. She recently moved to the Blue Mountains and is learning to care for chickens. Peta MacGillivray is a Kalkutungu and South Sea Islander woman who grew up in Central Queensland. Peta is now a die-hard Sydney-sider, who loves finding the city’s best breakfast sandwiches. She also likes indie R&B and collecting vinyl records. Blaksiders is produced on Gadigal land at 2SER 107.3FM

Two First Nations lawyers in a studio with LOTS to say. Blaksiders is the no-holds-barred conversation about news and current affairs that hosts Gemma McKinnon and&nbsp;Peta&nbsp;MacGillivray feel like talking about.
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Gemma McKinnon is a Barkindji woman, a mother of 6, and an Aries. Gemma likes administrative law and country music. She recently moved to the Blue Mountains and is learning to care for chickens.

Peta&nbsp;MacGillivray is a Kalkutungu and South Sea Islander woman who grew up in Central Queensland.&nbsp;Peta&nbsp;is now a die-hard Sydney-sider, who loves finding the city’s best breakfast sandwiches. She also likes indie R&amp;B and collecting vinyl records.

Blaksiders is produced on Gadigal land at 2SER 107.3FM

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