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The Body Is Not an Apology, Second Edition

The Power of Radical Self-Love

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The Body Is Not an Apology, Second Edition

By: Sonya Renee Taylor
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“To build a world that works for everyone, we must first make the radical decision to love every facet of ourselves.... ‘The body is not an apology’ is the mantra we should all embrace.” (Kimberlé Crenshaw, legal scholar and founder and executive director, African American Policy Forum)

Humans are a varied and divergent bunch with all manner of beliefs, morals, and bodies. Systems of oppression thrive off our inability to make peace with difference and injure the relationship we have with our own bodies.

The Body Is Not an Apology offers radical self-love as the balm to heal the wounds inflicted by these violent systems. World-renowned activist and poet Sonya Renee Taylor invites us to reconnect with the radical origins of our minds and bodies and celebrate our collective, enduring strength. As we awaken to our own indoctrinated body shame, we feel inspired to awaken others and to interrupt the systems that perpetuate body shame and oppression against all bodies. When we act from this truth on a global scale, we usher in the transformative opportunity of radical self-love, which is the opportunity for a more just, equitable, and compassionate world - for us all.

This second edition includes stories from Taylor’s travels around the world combating body terrorism and shines a light on the path toward liberation guided by love. In a brand new final chapter, she offers specific tools, actions, and resources for confronting racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, and transphobia. And she provides a case study showing how radical self-love not only dismantles shame and self-loathing in us but has the power to dismantle entire systems of injustice. Together with the accompanying workbook, Your Body Is Not an Apology, Taylor brings the practice of radical self-love to life.

©2018, 2021 Sonya Renee Taylor (P)2021 Sonya Renee Taylor
Eating Disorders LGBTQIA+ Essentials Mental Health Personal Development Psychology & Mental Health Self-Esteem Well-being Essentials Self-Love Inspiring Body Image
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As the mom of a child who is not neuro-typical this book hit me so hard for all of the ways we've apologized and contorted and carried shame. #FREEDOM

Revolutionary

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excellent in every way, challenging the systems and narratives in all our lives to remember how to love

challenging

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I feel I could never put into words why I was living a life that was so small compared to what others saw in me until this book put into Vivid clarity why I had folded myself in and Hidden myself from the world. I have since purchased the workbook and I am on my journey of radical self-love as a queer, femme, fat Bodied, women of color. thank you to the author for supporting my growth and self-love!

Life changing and affirming

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I love this book for so many reasons. The author and her candid, authentic vulnerability among the top reasons, plus the content, which taught me where I'm lacking in my personal self love and self esteem.
get this book. you will be so grateful you did.

such a great book to help with self esteem

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I’m still processing the genius of this book. I am so grateful for your wisdom, Sonya.

Still Processing

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Now more than ever we need love. Connection. Validation. Empowerment. The Body Is Not an Apology delivers. Sonya’s words convey her passion clearing. We all need this work and others like it in our lives!

Timely, empowering, raw.

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This book is not a self help book. It is a call to action. Sonya Renee Taylor is a powerful writer and an inspiring thinker. I’ve struggled with eating disorder and body terrorism my entire life. Her book spoke me to on multiple levels. I have shared it with many friends. Thank you writing it. Thank you. Thank you.

This is a call to action!

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Needs to read this book! Beautiful powerful lovely - thank you, Sonya Renee Taylor! Highly recommend. Loved hearing the author read

Every body and they mama

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there were many times in this reading where I was overwhelmed w guilt and shame and then reminded to let them go. its clear it's funny and it gives us steps to take magnificent

what collective healing looks like

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I appreciate the content. I respect the melanated female author!!!!! I struggled to finish it but I did. It was so involved that I felt rushed and couldn't sit with any one idea long enough because they all ran together with no clear Segway into the next. This is just my experience but I could probably engage this journey in a conference with dialog to connect the dots.

overall helpful

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