2022 WPLI Keynote Speaker: Aubrey Gordon

Aubrey Gordon started writing as Your Fat Friend in 2016. She published exclusively under the pseudonym for four years, writing anonymously about the social and cultural realities of moving through the world as a very fat person. Her debut book, What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Fat was released by Beacon Press in November 2020.
Today, she co-hosts the podcast Maintenance Phase with Michael Hobbes, in which the two debunk and decode wellness and weight loss trends.
Aubrey lives in Oregon with her dog, Finn Diesel. Prior to working as an author and podcaster, she spent 12 years as a community organizer focused on queer and trans justice,