The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love

The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love

by Sonya Renee Taylor
The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love

The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love

by Sonya Renee Taylor

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Overview

"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


"Taylor invites us to break up with shame, to deepen our literacy, and to liberate our practice of celebrating every body and never apologizing for this body that is mine and takes care of me so well."
—Alicia Garza, cocreator of the Black Lives Matter Global Network and Strategy + Partnerships Director, National Domestic Workers Alliance

"Her manifesto on radical self-love is life altering—required reading for anyone who struggles with body image."
—Claire Foster, Foreword Review

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781626569768
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Publication date: 02/13/2018
Pages: 160
Product dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Sonya Renee Taylor is the founder and radical executive officer of TheBodyIsNotanApology.com. She has been featured on HBO, BET, MTV, NPR, PBS, and CNN and in the New York Times, New York Magazine, USA Today, Huffington Post, Vogue Australia, and many more.

Table of Contents

Prologue ix

1 Making Self-Love Radical 1

What Radical Self-Love Is and What It Ain't 1

Why the Body? 3

Why Must It Be Radical? 5

What Have We Been Apologizing For? What If We Stopped? 11

The Three Peaces 17

2 Shame, Guilt, and Apology-Then and Now 25

When Did We Learn to Hate Them? 25

Body-Shame Origin Stories 26

Media Matters 36

Buying to Be "Enough" 41

A Government for, by, and about Bodies 45

Call It What It Is: Body Terrorism 50

3 Building a Radical Self-Love Practice in an Age of Loathing 57

Mapping Our Way out of Shame and into Radical Self-Love 57

Thinking, Being, Doing 60

Four Pillars of Practice 64

4 A New Way Ordered by Love 75

A World for All Bodies Is a World for Our Bodies 75

Speaking French and Implicit Bias 76

Beating Body Terrorism from the Inside Out 81

Changing Hearts 83

Unapologetic Agreements 87

5 Your Radical Self-Love Toolkit 93

You Are Not a Car 93

Ten Tools for Radical Self-Love 94

Conclusion 115

Notes 117

Radical Resources 125

Acknowledgments 127

Index 129

About the Author 135

About TBINAA 137

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