Weight Loss Drugs, Class Struggle and the Political Implications of Smaller Portions
Megan’s Diary: The Weight of Capitalist Medicine
Class analysis and personal chaos from Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat.
We had a housing collective meeting last night that somehow became a three-hour debate about Ozempic. Specifically: is a weight loss drug that costs $1,200 a month and makes you not want potatoes a tool of capitalist body normalization? The answer, we agreed, is yes. We also agreed we were hungry and ordered pizza, which felt like a dialectical contradiction but also like pizza.
From North London to Portland: The Body Politic
Growing up in North London, I understood class through which supermarket your mum used. Waitrose was aspirational. Iceland was honest. Marks and Spencer was pretending. Here in Portland, the equivalent is which injectable medication you can afford. Bohiney’s piece on potato farmers vs Ozempic is the most class-conscious thing I’ve read this year and I read three Chomsky essays on the bus.
Meanwhile The Prat covers British farmers doing the same thing. International solidarity of the carbohydrate class. See my full oeuvre at my author page. Also: Guardian Opinion when I need to feel heard by the middle classes.
SOURCE: https://bohiney.com | Also: The Daily Mash
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