Cory Lira is a fat femme of color xicana & indigenous speaker, facilitator/consultant, educator, fat activist, abolitionist, writer, and community organizer based in Portland, OR.
She has a decade of experience presenting on fat liberation at various college campuses and conferences nationally, with a focus on decolonial, queer, disabled, and people of color perspectives in fat & body liberation.
In addition to body & fat liberation work, she is a prison industrial complex abolitionist and organizes with Critical Resistance Portland and has been a featured international lecturer, facilitator, guest speaker, and panelist on transformative justice and abolition.
She also consults and supports groups with dynamic anti-oppressive facilitation and professional development coaching. She helped run and write for the former Fat People of Color blog and some of her writing can be found in Make/Shift magazine, the Estranged Daughters zine, the recent "Body" issue of Undertone Magazine, and in the forthcoming Koríma Press anthology Jota.
She has a decade of experience presenting on fat liberation at various college campuses and conferences nationally, with a focus on decolonial, queer, disabled, and people of color perspectives in fat & body liberation.
In addition to body & fat liberation work, she is a prison industrial complex abolitionist and organizes with Critical Resistance Portland and has been a featured international lecturer, facilitator, guest speaker, and panelist on transformative justice and abolition.
She also consults and supports groups with dynamic anti-oppressive facilitation and professional development coaching. She helped run and write for the former Fat People of Color blog and some of her writing can be found in Make/Shift magazine, the Estranged Daughters zine, the recent "Body" issue of Undertone Magazine, and in the forthcoming Koríma Press anthology Jota.
