NAAFA Webinar Series: Fat Car Talk with Chaya M. Milchtein
Tuesday, August 13, 2024
10:00am PT / 11:00am MT / 12:00pm CT / 1:00pm ET
Duration: 1 hour
Image Description: Headshots of Chaya M. Milchtein and Tigress Osborn appear in turquoise circles, as does the Fat Liberation Month logo. The text reads: "Fat Car Talk. Featuring Chaya M. Milchtein (she/her) @MechanicShopFemme. Tuesday, August 13, 10am Pacific. Free! For fat people & fat-positive friends. ASL by Pro Bono ASL. NAAFA Webinar Series 2024. Hosted by Tigress Osborn (she/her). Registration & details at naafa.org/flm
Event Description
In this episode of the NAAFA Webinar Series, host Tigress Osborn is joined by automotive educator and author Chaya M. Milchtein (she/her). We’ll discuss Chaya’s new book, Mechanic Shop Femme's Guide to Car Ownership, as well as specific tips for larger-bodied car shoppers, drivers, and passengers. We’ll also discuss life on the internet as a fat, queer creator.
NAAFA virtual events are for fat people and fat-positive friends of all sizes. Our virtual events are offered free of charge thanks to the generosity of our community of NAAFA donors.
This event is presented via Zoom, in English, and with English auto-captions by Otter.ai. ASL Interpreting by Pro Bono ASL.
The National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance is a 501(c)3 charitable organization with a mission to change perceptions of fat and to end size discrimination through advocacy, education, and support. Our webinars are offered to the community free of charge thanks to the generosity of those who give to NAAFA. To support this and other NAAFA programming, visit naafa.org/give.
Image Description (provided by guest): A headshot of Chaya Milchtein, a fat white woman with short brown hair and pink eyeshadow. She's looking through an open window of her Subaru, wearing a floral green dress and holding a copy of her book, Mechanic Shop Femme's Guide to Car Ownership.
Speaker Bio
Chaya M. Milchtein (she/her) is an automotive educator, journalist, and author of Mechanic Shop Femme's Guide to Car Ownership. Chaya is a queer woman who has spent the last decade deeply entrenched in the automotive industry. She unapologetically stands out in a crowd, flaunting her fashion sense while teaching about cars, traveling the world, and breaking all kinds of norms.
Chaya made it her life's mission to educate women and queer people about their cars. She's dedicated her career to educating the average car owner, not automotive enthusiasts, about their cars - a career she found and built after aging out of the foster care system.
You'll find Chaya covered in the Chicago Tribune, Car and Driver, Car Talk, The Advocate, and NPR's Lifekit, Wisconsin PBS and many other prestigious publications. As a journalist, she's written for USA Today, AAA's Via Magazine, Real Simple, Parents, PBS's Next Avenue, and others.
Chaya's been sponsored by industry-leading brands, including CarMax, T-Mobile, iFixit, and TireRack, and she's taught her popular car classes at libraries, universities, non-profits, and businesses, including The Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, John Jay Criminal College, BMO Bank, and Vanderbilt University.
With over 790,000 followers across platforms (87% women), people look to Chaya to understand all things cars, from buying to selling, maintenance, insurance, and more. Follow Chaya on Instagram, Tiktok, Threads, Twitter, and YouTube @mechanicshopfemme