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(Gendered freedom!)” This comment implies the comfortable inclusion of gender nonconformists on the CGS site. For example, one trans person wrote, “this blog is such a relief to find, since I am fat and trans and looking for fashion inspiration.” For another fat trans person, the blog is a fantastic resource – “nice to see some people shaped like me (even though I’m much shorter than many of the guys on here).” Yet a third gender-queer person says: “I wear almost exclusively women’s bottoms. I am most impressed by the queer-positive, anti-racist, and anti-ableist environment that this fat-positive community has engendered. Its message is clear: everyone is entitled to fashion, regardless of size. The CGS website provides a judgement-free zone, as reflected by the compliments made to people who post pictures.
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I looked through many posts and photos by men of size who are queer, disabled, people of color, and/or “just plain broke,” most of whom are young adults who are underrepresented in the main. In fact, several users submit selfies in their favorite outfit. From my rudimentary content analysis, I gather that this community has international reach providing a safe space for big men who don’t fit the mass media’s image of the “ideal” body type, but aspire toward becoming fashionable, and who therefore appreciate the information and wisdom users share on this site. “CGS”), cofounded in 2010 by Zach Eser and Abigail Spooner in response to the lack of body-positive “fatshion” for plus-size males. I spent some time perusing another blogging community, Chubby Guy Swag (a.k.a. It also alerts users to deals on clothing in extended sizes. It directs people to resources for them to find clothes they might love. One of these sites, Chubstr, slates itself as a style destination for men of size. I must say, however, that as a scholar of queer and fat studies in a thin-privileged (white) body, who has written about middle-aged big gay men, I am encouraged to see the emergence of a couple of sites that are attempting to provide fashion inspiration for bigger guys, garnering visibility for them.
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It seems that the fashion industry has continued to overlook big men in this regard. There appears to be endless chatter among bloggers about fat women’s fashion, though less so when it comes to fat men.