About this episode

Virgie Tovar discusses the impact of GLP-1 medications on body positivity and fat activism.

GLP-1s did not just change medicine. They changed a movement. Virgie Tovar is a weight stigma expert, activist, and journalist who has been watching this unfold from a perspective most voices in this conversation don't have. In this episode, she traces exactly what happened to body positivity and fat activism when Ozempic entered the room, and she does not soften the analysis. In this episode: The real difference between body positivity and fat activism, and why that distinction has never mattered more How body autonomy became a political shield for choices that carry collective consequences What "lab coat washing" means, and how GLP-1 marketing uses it to disguise a financial machine as a health intervention Why GLP-1s work through starvation states, and what that does to desire, mood, and the capacity to resist The intergenerational fallout Stephanie is already seeing coming in the next wave of clients Mentioned in the show: Beyond GLP-1 Expert Podcast Series: https://program.stephaniedodier.com/beyond-glp-1 Virgie Tovar's Substack: http://virgietovar.substack.com Virgie Tovar's Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/virgietovar Virgie Tovar's GLP-1 Truth Serum Podcast…

People in this episode

Host: Stephanie Dodier

Guest: Virgie Tovar

Topics covered

• body positivity
• fat activism
• Ozempic
• weight stigma
• health interventions
• body autonomy
• GLP-1

Keywords

• Ozempic
• body positivity
• fat activism
• weight stigma
• GLP-1
• health interventions
• body autonomy
• lab coat washing
• starvation states

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Beyond GLP-1 Expert Podcast Series, Virgie Tovar's Substack, Virgie Tovar's Instagram, Virgie Tovar's GLP-1 Truth Serum Podcast, Coach Corner Vault, Non-Diet Client Assessment Tool, Non-Diet Coaching Certification Waitlist

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