LOS ANGELES, CA—Kelly Shibari, multiple-award-winning BBW Female Performer of the Year and size acceptance advocate, has been selected as the model for two months in the now-available 2014 Adipositivity Calendar.
“I’m so thrilled to have been chosen for not just one, but two months!” exclaimed Kelly, who is the featured model for April and December. “The Adipositivity Project is something I’ve wanted to be a part of for a long time, and my trip to New York earlier this year finally made that possible. Thank you, Substantia, for allowing me to pose for you, and selecting me for your calendar; I’m grinning from ear to ear!”
A preview of, and instructions on ordering, the 2014 Adipositivity Calendar is available here.
Project founder and photographer Substantia Jones has photographed hundreds of plus-size people, mostly women and mostly nude, for her Adipositivity Project. The hope of the ongoing project is to demystify the fat body and promote enlightened discussion of fat politics and social justice. “The Adipositivity Project is a body-love photo-activism campaign which shows what the larger end of natural human variation really looks like,” Jones explained. “It’s not the lumbering, headless fat folks in grease-stained t-shirts television news broadcasts would have you believe.”
As a BBW model/performer, Kelly is also passionate about introducing body positive messages into the media spotlight and promotes her ongoing mantra of “Confidence Is Sexy” through a variety of mediums. Her article on plus-size sexuality and pornography on Jane Pratt’s SAY MEDIA site, xojane, was one of the site’s most popular articles. Kelly has written for several adult industry sites, and was a featured guest editor for former Gawker Media site Fleshbot's Kelly Shibari Week, and currently contributes to sexuality website Gasm.org. A proponent of “intelligent hedonism,” Kelly speaks on college campuses on how to intelligently navigate female sexuality, negative media messages about size, and bullying, all while developing self-confidence and inner strength.
“I’ve always been a bigger girl,” said Kelly. “Being plus-sized when I was younger came with the negative self-image that I not only cast upon myself, but was exposed to by society. Exposing my body publicly, through adult entertainment, modeling, and outreach, has been the direct catalyst for my own self-confidence. If sharing my body with others, through a variety of media, inspires women of size to feel better and more confident, then I’m extremely happy. Positive imagery of plus-size women was not something that was available to me when I was younger. Projects such as the Adipositivity Project are part of the movement to get people to not only accept themselves, but a message to the world that you don’t have to conform to a media-dictated size to be considered sexy, and for that I’m extremely grateful.”
“I preach body autonomy and freedom from body policing and size-ist judgment,” added Jones. “The Adipositivity Project is part fat, part feminism, and part ‘Fuck You’. Kelly's a natural in front of the camera, and was a pleasure to work with. She has a way of being noble, playful, and smoldering, all at once—exactly what I wanted to convey in the calendar. After the shoot, we walked to a nearby restaurant and solved 70 percent of the world's problems over lunch. Kelly's got a fun spirit and a fierce mind for business. And boy, can she rock some knee socks!”
Awarded 2013 BBW Performer of the Year by both Exxxotica and the 21st Annual NightMoves Awards, Kelly Shibari is a prolific producer, director, writer, and performer. Her self-titled, self-produced, and self-marketed project, Kelly Shibari Is Overloaded, was nominated for an AVN award last year, as well as a Feminist Porn Award, and garnered a NightMoves Best BBW Release award. The plus-size performer not only entertains fans in front of the camera, but she has produced the Feminist Porn Award-winning PaddedKINK, which celebrates kinksters of size. Holding the distinct honor of being the only plus-sized performer ever molded for a Fleshlight, Kelly currently is the face of harness company SpareParts Hardwear’s plus-size line. The highly accessible porn star regularly chats with fans via her social media accounts on Twitter and Facebook.
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