ABSTRACT
This chapter seems that your comic makes an important contribution to queering fat transmasculine embodiment by your representation of yourself, and your boys, as masculine and chubby, desirable and desired. Rooster Tails is a weekly web-comic that has followed Sam Orchard's transition from 'shy girl' to 'awkward semi-butch chubby nerd' since 2010. Orchard's comic has contributed to an emerging archive of cultural work around fat transgender embodiment, including among others, Wyatt Riot's writing and video work and the writing and tumblring of Mey DJneres. The author's present text is nourished by an emerging community of scholarship that connects transgender embodiment, food and body size. In activist conversations, and increasingly in academic ones, the connections between transgender and fat rights struggles have been articulated. It notices a couple of alternative discourses that constitute fat transmasculine embodiment in seemingly contradictory ways. As you touched on earlier, discussions about fatness seem to take particular routes in transmasculine communities and media.
