Chris Bodenner is an American writer and anti-transgender activist. Bodenner is a longtime business partner of anti-trans activist Andrew Sullivan and the Substack newsletter The Weekly Dish.
Background
Christopher Philip “Chris” Bodenner was born on May 3, 1982. Bodenner earned a bachelor’s degree from Wake Forest University in 2004.
Bodenner was involved in blogging after completing college.
In 2007 Bodenner interned at The Atlantic, working primarily for Andrew Sullivan, Jeffrey Goldberg, and Marc Ambinder. Following a staff reporter job at National Journal in 2008, Bodenner was hired at The Atlantic to help run The Daily Dish with Andrew Sullivan, a blog housed there. In 2011, The Dish moved to Newsweek/Daily Beast in 2011. In 2013 Sullivan, Patrick Appel, and Bodenner formed a partnership and took the blog independent as Dish Publishing LLC.
In 2015 Bodenner was hired to launch and edit the Notes section of reader email at The Atlantic. The section began on August 26, 2015. Bodenner left The Atlantic in 2017 to freelance, including work on a history of the Funk family. The section was retired in 2021.
In June 2020, Bodenner was involved in moving to Substack and co-founding the newsletter The Weekly Dish with Sullivan.
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