Lately, the cultural conversation around GLP-1s has started to get weird. We've noticed how little the conversations around these medications center, or even consider, people who are taking these medications for actual illnesses. It's starting to feel ableist.

We're getting into:

⭐️ How mainstream media centers people like Clavicular, celebrities, or thin rich people taking GLP-1s.

⭐️ Why are people taking GLP-1s for diabetes not being included in the conversation?

⭐️ How often cultural discourse about bodies, even illness, medicine, people's experiences of their bodies almost never reflects the experience of people who are actually ill.

⭐️ And Corinne opens up about their own GLP-1 experience, which you can read in even more detail here on Big Undies.

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Housekeeping note: We've changed things up a bit to solve some behind-the-scenes tech issues, so here's how to get your Burnt Toast fix:

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Paid subscribers also get transcripts, commenting privileges and our bonus (audio only!) Indulgence Gospel segment. This week Corinne and I are chatting about The Devil Wears Prada 2. Did they fix the fatphobia? Does it make me miss working in fashion magazines? Were editors-in-chief really that bananas? We will be getting into it. Don't miss out — join us here!

Virginia's Butter: this neck massager

Corinne's Butter: these Old Navy pants

Virgie Tovar’s GLP-1 Burnout Support Group

The Cut: Losing My Friend Over Wegovy She hid her semaglutide use, knowing that I would spiral. She was right; we haven’t spoken since. By Sophia Ortega

Search Engine (podcast): What we got wrong about GLP-1s

Weight and Healthcare: Semaglutide 7.2mg - The Ever-Expanding Dose Part 1. By Ragen Chastain

NYT: We’re at the Dawn of the Ozempic Era — and It’s Really Weird. By Ezra Klein

NYT: We’ve Missed the Point on GLP-1s for Children. By Julia Belluz

Intelligencer: The Moral Panic Over Ozempic Misses the Point The media has made the drugs about body politics and our obsession with thinness. That’s the wrong story. By Rachael Bedard

https://www.patreon.com/posts/what-were-wrong-159854489

EPISODE CREDITS

Co-hosts: Virginia Sole-Smith and Corinne Fay. 

Producer:  Kim Baldwin. 

Logo design: Deanna Lowe.

Theme Song: Farideh.

Video Editor: Elizabeth Ayiku

Audio Engineer: Tommy Harron

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