Aubrey Wallace

This post by Aubrey Wallace originally appeared on Ravishly.com, an alternative news+culture site for women.

Body positivity is Melissa Fabello’s forte. Whether she’s vlogging about eating disorders and the media or writing about sexual positivity, Fabello’s focus on self acceptance is nothing short of amazing. A sex educator with a Masters in Human Sexuality, she has a website, a vlog and is an editor for Everyday Feminism. She has more side projects than we can count and she’s working on her PhD, too.

We recently got a hold of Fabello and asked her a bevy of questions about her work, her connection to feminism and vlogging as a method of spreading her message of body positivity

Your videos are such a breath of fresh air! You’re incredibly open about your own life struggles as well as the struggles of your friends, family and readers. How did you first become interested in vlogging and how does vlogging help leverage your cause and contribute to the body image dialogue? 

My foray into the world of vlogging was really a complete accident, certainly not something I was expecting to keep up with. After I saw the 2010 documentary Miss Representation, I was inspired by their call-to-action campaign, where they accepted submissions of videos explaining how you wanted your marginalized identities to be better represented in the media. I had fun making the video, so I started making more, mostly just me rambling about some feminist issue that I was thinking a lot about and posting them ...