Girl.

Girl.

It's time.

I'm Saeed Jones.

And I'm Zach Stafford.

You're listening to Vibe Check.

And today's episode is all about the body politic.

And we throw that term around a lot.

You know, I studied feminist and gender studies in college.

It's my bread and butter.

And the term the body politic is very broad and can be used and deployed against a lot of things.

But today we're using it quite literally to talk about the body and the summer body.

Because Saeed Jones and I have noticed, as we've entered the summer months, they're approaching. It's begun. It's begun. And your social media feeds are all about asking that question, is your body ready for the summer? And we're like, all bodies are ready for the summer. What are we talking about, y'all? What's happening?

What's happening?

But it does point to a larger phenomenon, which is Trump hasn't just hijacked our lives in the new cycle, but his fascist regime has hijacked the culture around bodies.

I'm going to argue today.

And that we're asking this question is the larger culture around

dieting now becoming fascist and what that means for all of us. So that's today's conversation,

the body politic and what it means for all of us and what we're all actually consuming as we're

looking online. Yeah, and we're going to break it down into a couple of aspects. We're first

going to talk about, yeah, I mean, you know, the dieting, the obsession over control and conformity that, you know, absolutely feels connected to fascist politics and regiment.

Control, control, control, obey, obey, obey.

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