In this rerun of episode 32 hosts Sirius, Dana, and Hilary delve into the topic of beauty through the lens of body trust, following a reflection on their recent menopause summit. They discuss the profound impact of the summit, how it broadened conversations around menopause beyond medicalization to include power, bodies, and gender. Transitioning to the podcast's main topic, they critique western beauty standards, the commercial and cultural forces behind them, and the societal implications, including gender norms and eugenics. They also explore the coping mechanisms people employ, such as shapewear and skincare, and discuss the deep-seated desire for desirability and safety, especially amongst younger generations. Along the way, they touch on regional differences, the impact of economic shifts on beauty norms, and the concept of the 'new chill girl' in current gender dynamics.

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The Menopause Summit by Center for Body Trust

As boys shift to the right, we are seeing the rise of the “new chill girl”

Reclaim Ugly - Vanessa Rochelle Lewis

The MAGA Beauty Esthetic Tells the Story of America Today

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In this rerun of episode 29 hosts Hilary, Sirius, and Dana delve into the complex emotions surrounding anger and rage in personal and political contexts. They discuss the stigmatization and manipulation of anger in marginalized communities, and the socio-economic and racial dynamics that fuel these emotions. The conversation transitions into the personal realm, exploring how anger is internalized, especially in women and marginalized groups, and the importance of acknowledging and processing these feelings. The hosts share insights on the intersectionality of anger with other emotions like grief, the cultural implications of anger, and strategies for harnessing and transforming this powerful emotion for personal and collective healing.

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Rage Becomes Her by Soraya Chemaly

Love & Rage by Lama Rod Owens

Eloquent Rage by Brittney Cooper

Good & Mad by Rebecca Traister

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Dana, Hilary, and Sirius record the last Body Trust Podcast episode before a summer sabbatical. They discuss “hot topics,” including Sports Illustrated’s diverse swimsuit runway and the cultural fixation on “flattering” as code for making bodies look smaller, plus fashion imagery like aprons and restrictive mouth accessories. They reflect on Virgie Tovar’s point that thriving in the body positivity era required different skills than the current GLP-1 era, emphasizing critique, liberatory consciousness, discernment, community-building, and skepticism of marketing claims about GLP-1s and “hedonic behavior.” They share summer fat-community resources and events, including fat swims/chunky dunks, Portland’s Fat Fest (June 28 2026), BIPOC Eating Disorder Conference (virtual, July 16–18 2026), and a Minneapolis in-person event on Body Trust in the Age of Ozempic (July 24 2026).

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Body Trust in the Age of GLP1s: July 24, 9:30-12:30 pm, Minneapolis, MN

Reclaiming Body Trust

Our Groundwork Training

Ragen Chastain on The Body Trust Podcast

Pleasure Activism by adrienne maree brown 

Fat Con

Fat Fest PDX or Instagram: @iamannachapman + @fatfest 

Chub Hub PDX: Fat Babe Pool Party is August 8, 2026

BIPOC Eating Disorders Conference 

Fat Self Care Tips

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Dana, Sirius, and Hilary reunite to share updates and discuss current topics, including an upcoming June training with certified Body Trust provider Sand Chang on integrating Body Trust with Internal Family Systems. They debrief the Met Gala and discuss PCOS being renamed polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome. Dana shares celiac disease awareness, its autoimmune nature, cross-contamination risks, and offers support. Dana also recaps the first AWSIM assembly on weight-inclusive medicine, including critiques of the “anti-obesity assemblage,” GLP-1 ethics, harms from poorly managed dosing, and the conundrum for weight-inclusive clinicians.

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CW: Sexual violence and trafficking. This episode includes discussion of sexual violence, including human trafficking. Please take gentle care of yourself if you choose to listen - we care about you and how this may impact you.

On this episode of The Body Trust Podcast Hilary and Sirius invite Body Trust provider and therapist Christina Burrell to discuss survivorship. Christina discusses dissociation, compartmentalization, bodily autonomy, and the cultural context of Me Too. Christina describes running a small Body Trust foundations group for queer survivors and emphasizes explicit, consistent invitations that communicate “all of you is welcome here,” noting healing cannot be thought through alone and must connect to collective movement toward “the horizon of love.”

01:28 Christina’s Body Trust journey

06:59 Defining Survivorship

09:23 Reorienting Healing

12:27 Compartmentalization and Safety

17:49 Me Too and Visibility

19:25 From Rage to Action

32:07 From Individual to Collective Change

39:15 How to Support Survivors

RESOURCES

The Foundations of Body Trust : The Body Trust Framework

Reclaiming Body Trust:A Path to Liberation and Healing by Kinavey & Sturtevant

Me, Too International

Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the birth of the Me, Too Movement by Tarana Burke

Survivor Power with Tarana Burke on Becoming the People Podcast with Prentis Hemphill

adrienne marry brown and Sonya Renee Taylor on survivorship in these times
Freedom & Desire Substack by Sirius Bonner

CHRISTINA BOREL

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ANCHORING: Body Trust Practices for Survivors
www.kaleidoscope-growth.com

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On this episode of The Body Trust Podcast, Hilary, Sirius and Dana discuss the intentions behind their free ethical care guidelines for GLP-1 medications. They critique weight-centric healthcare, industry-influenced research, and an “ethics” focus limited to rationing and allocation rather than relational care, informed consent, and “do no harm.” Centering body autonomy, they stress that true consent requires unbiased information and freedom from coercion, including weight stigma and medical gaslighting. They highlight risks such as deaths, weight cycling, and inadequate eating-disorder screening, including concerns about people developing or worsening eating disorders on GLP-1s. They describe practical elements of weight-inclusive care, identify clinical red flags, and encourage patients and providers to use the guidelines to ask better questions while recognizing systemic anti-fat bias cannot be solved by individual weight loss.

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Ethical Care Guidelines for GLP1 Medications by Center for Body Trust

Freedom & Desire Substack by Sirius Bonner

Coaching with Meg Bradbury

Certified Body Trust Provider Directory

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On this episode Hilary, Sirius and Dana welcome Center for Body Trust program coordinator and coach Meg Bradbury to discuss orthorexia. Meg shares  their background and describes growing up with body shaming, prior eating disorder histories, and how “healthy eating” escalated into orthorexia. The hosts unpack the overlap orthorexia has with influencer culture, toxic masculinity, and white-supremacist-coded “purity” narratives, and warn about restrictive medical/naturopathic food advice. Meg underscores the importance of recovery support by way of community, patience and non-linear healing.

02:52 Meg discussing their journey to Body Trust

11:10 Meg shares how their Orthorexia developed and escalates

31:43 The impact of Influencers and Wellness Culture on orthorexia

41:38 Medical Nuance and Restriction Risks

44:37 ED Risks Beyond Size

45:51 Food Advice and Performative Health

01:06:48 MAHA and co-opting body liberation language

01:08:41 How To Start Healing

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How White Nationalists Infiltrated the Wellness Movement

Orthorexia & Diet Culture in the Family (Meg with her daughter Carson)
Healthism: The Desire to be Healthy Gone Wrong

Coaching with Meg Bradbury

Certified Body Trust Provider Directory

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Hosts Dana, Sirius, and Hilary welcome fat activist and researcher Ragen Chastain, author of the Weight and Healthcare Substack and founder of the Dances With Fat blog onto the podcast. Ragen discusses her entry into fat civil rights and healthcare advocacy and describes focusing her work on intersections of weight science, weight stigma, and healthcare practice, arguing that the weight-loss industry and drug companies manipulate healthcare and media with “science” marketing. She outlines how she evaluates studies (funding, conflicts of interest, methodology, dosing, outcomes, and comparisons to existing treatments), critiques GLP-1 claims and secondary-indication narratives, and emphasizes bodily autonomy, collective harm from anti-fat bias, and the necessity of ethical informed consent, including risks, limited long-term outcomes, and denial-of-care pressures.

05:14 Ragen's personal experience with anti-fat bias 

12:09 The GLP-1 Marketing Machine

24:58 The connection between Fen-phen, Purdue and Novo Nordisk

37:15 Ethical Informed Consent

38:38 Why Fatphobia Persists and the diet industry co-opting fat liberation language

58:36  Autonomy, Accountability and Responsibility within Celebrity and Influencer culture

01:06:33 Medical ethics, Informed Consent and Patient Coercion

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Weight & Healthcare Substack Newsletter by Ragen Chastain
Prediabetes: Dubious Diagnosis
Novo Nordisk Report: Building the Market from Scratch (see page 30) 

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On this episode hosts Dana, Sirius, and Hilary discuss GLP-1s, and how they’re showing up in pop culture and politics. They unpack the Super Bowl ads and awkward displays of male power in the media. They critique a New York Times opinion piece about “leaving body positivity” and use it as a jumping off point to discuss the importance of using an intersectional lens to approach body trust. They discuss the rise in GLP-1 related deaths and incidences of scurvy, and announce the release of their ethical care guidelines for folks using GLP-1s.

00:46 Pop culture round up: the Super Bowl 

17:43 Health Nuance And Backlash

21:45 Political Roots Missing in Body Positivity 

28:41 Fat loss does not eradicate oppression

32:53 FDA Warnings And Deaths

55:57 Iran And War Distractions

01:01:23 Introducing our ethical care guidelines

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Ethical Care Guidelines for GLP1 Medications by Center for Body Trust

Instagram Post with Band Names for Junior and Kid Rock

The Split Inside Body Positivity Boils Down to This One Thing

Ethical Care Guidelines and Secondary Uses of GLP-1 Medications

Beyond Body Positivity

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In their first live episode, hosts Dana and Hilary are interviewed by Sirius as they celebrate and reflect on 20 years of Body Trust work. They discuss the evolution of their work and the ongoing refusal of healthcare and public discourse to address diet culture’s harm. They address the current cultural moment—GLP-1 advertising, the “era of emaciation,” the Super Bowl commercials, and connections between beauty standards, desirability, and Epstein’s grooming. They share lessons about relationship, coalition-building, non-linear transformation, and future learning edges including disability justice, food justice, and aging, then take audience questions highlighting aging/disability intersections and community impact.

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Join us March 13th for Desiree Adaway’s Praxis of Liberation 

The Menopause Summit by Center for Body Trust (recording available)

Fat, Pretty, and Soon to be Old: A Makeover for Self & Society by Kimberly Dark

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