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  Cory Lira

About

Cory Lira (she/they) is a xicana & indigenous fat femme speaker, consultant, educator, fat activist, abolitionist, writer, and community organizer based in Portland, OR.
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​She has a over a decade of experience presenting on fat liberation at college campuses and conferences nationally, with a focus on decolonial, queer, disabled, and Black, Indigenous, and people of color perspectives within fat & body liberation.

​In addition to body & fat liberation work, she is a prison industrial complex abolitionist and has been organizing with Critical Resistance Portland for the past eight years. They are a featured international lecturer, facilitator, guest speaker, and panelist on PIC abolition, transformative justice, and disrupting disposability culture.

​She also consults and supports groups with dynamic anti-oppressive facilitation, organizational assessment, and professional development coaching. She helped run & 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 "Body" issue of Undertone Magazine, and in the forthcoming Koríma Press anthology Jota. 
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