NAAFA Community Connect - Milwaukee
Friday, July 24, 2026
6:30pm
Fruition MKE Cafe + Co-working + Creative Space
819 N 27th Street, Milwaukee, WI 53208
Duration: 1 hour
Attention fat folks and friends in Milwaukee, Wisconsin!
Whether you’re brand new to fat liberation or a seasoned advocate who wants to connect with local community, come connect with us! Join NAAFA on Tuesday evening, July 24 at 6:30pm at the Fruition MKE Cafe + Co-working + Creative Space in for a fat-friendly meet-up. Tigress will be joined by special guests Chaya M Milchtein (@mechanicshopfemme) and Jodyann Morgan (@ctoan.co). Tigress will give a brief overview of NAAFA, fat rights and #fatliberation, and the Campaign for Size Freedom’s work to outlaw size discrimination, and then we’ll chat with Chaya and Jodyann about their work. Tigress will also have copies of her book, @weightandwisdombook, with her proceeds going to @naafofficial.
Join us for fat fun and friendship!!
This is a free event for fat and fat-positive folks of all ages. See you there!
Please come prepared to mask! (KN94 masks will be provided.)
Please reach out to us at naafa.org/contact if you need any accessibility accommodations no later than Wednesday 7/23!
GUEST BIOS:
[Accessibility Description (provided by guest): Photo of Jodyann Morgan standing behind a table wearing green glasses, a red hat, and a black shirt. She's leaning forward over body shaped candles, planters, and lighter holders from CTOAN, her fat art company.]
Jodyann Morgan (she/her) is the founder of CTOAN Co., a fat art company. She lovingly hand-pours trans-inclusive, gender-neutral body candles and creates 3D-printed planters, lighter holders and more—mostly original designs—that allow people to see their bodies, and the bodies of those they love, represented in accessible art. She has cultivated a community of over 110,000 people who celebrate all things fat art, queer empowerment, and Black excellence.
[Accessibility Description (provided by guest): A photo of Chaya M Milchtein, a fat white woman with curly hair in a blue dress photographed through the driver's window of her car that she's leaning out of.]
Chaya Milchtein (she/her) is an automotive educator, influencer, and author of Mechanic Shop Femme's Guide to Car Ownership. 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. She's taught her popular car classes at libraries, universities, non-profits, and businesses, including John Jay Criminal College, BMO Bank, and Vanderbilt University. Chaya has worked with national and international automotive brands, including CarMax, TireRack, iFixit, and Jerry. She has been featured in AARP, NPR's Lifekit, Oprah Magazine, Car Talk, and The Chicago Tribune. She's written for AAA's Via Magazine, Parents Magazine, Shondaland, and PBS's Next Avenue. Chaya lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with her wife, tortoise, and black cat.
[Accessibility Description: Headshot of Tigress Osborn]
Tigress Osborn (she/her) is the is the Executive Director of the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance (NAAFA) and co-founder of the Campaign for Size Freedom. She is the co-editor of Weight and Wisdom: Reflections on Decades of Working for Body Liberation (Pearlsong Press 2025). Tigress founded Full Figure Entertainment, a plus-size event production group, in Oakland, CA in 2008. Seen most recently debating Jillian Michaels on the YouTube series Surrounded, Tigress is a 2024 Time Health100 honoree for her advocacy to end systemic size discrimination..
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