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Through lucid and courageous self-revelation, Sonya Renee Taylor shows us how to realize the revolutionary potential of self-love. ‘The body is not an apology’ is the mantra we should all embrace.

Through lucid and courageous self-revelation, Sonya Renee Taylor shows us how to realize the revolutionary potential of self-love. ‘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

The Body Is Not an Apology is a gift, a blessing, a prayer, a reminder, a sacred text. This book cracked me open in ways that I’m so grateful for. I know it will do the same for you.

The Body Is Not an Apology is a gift, a blessing, a prayer, a reminder, a sacred text. This book cracked me open in ways that I’m so grateful for. I know it will do the same for you.

ALICIA GARZA • cocreator of the Black Lives Matter Global Network and Strategy + Partnerships Director, National Domestic Workers Alliance

This is a radical, merciful, transformational book that will give you deep insights, inspiration, and concrete tools for launching the revolution right inside your own beloved body.

This is a radical, merciful, transformational book that will give you deep insights, inspiration, and concrete tools for launching the revolution right inside your own beloved body.

EVE ENSLER • author of The Vagina Monologues and In the Body of the World

The Body Is Not an Apology is essential reading for those of us who crave understanding and those who are already on the path to learning how beautiful and complex our bodies are.

The Body Is Not an Apology is essential reading for those of us who crave understanding and those who are already on the path to learning how beautiful and complex our bodies are.

Tess Holiday, Plus Model, Author & Founder of Eff Your Beauty Standards

As a disabled woman, #thefirsttimeireadmyself may well have been this book. Thank you, Sonya. Bought two copies, one for me and one for my daughter.

As a disabled woman, #thefirsttimeireadmyself may well have been this book. Thank you, Sonya. Bought two copies, one for me and one for my daughter.

Rebecca Cokely, Senior Fellow for Disability Policy, Center for American Progress, disability rights activist, and mom

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This week’s featured QPOC/WOC-owned business is The Body Is Not An Apology! Founded by activist and writer Sonya Renee Taylor, @thebodyisnotanapology is a magazine, blog, and movement that believes in making peace with one’s body in the face of discrimination and injustice. Find their work at thebodyisnotanapology.com 🌼
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Working on "trying" less. Much of identity is tied to "trying really hard". Letting that go brings up feelings of being a mediocre failure. UGH. The indoctrinations that tie our worth to external sources coupled with our own unique traumas and survival strategies make this radical self love shit SUPER hard somedays. That's why it's a practice, not a place at which we arrive. There will always be new areas where we must apply the practice. I am applying it today. I am inherently worthy, without trying to be. My successes and failures are a reflection of many things( often social and systemic oppressions) but in no way a reflection of my value or inherent divine enoughness in this world. ..true for you too.

being "healthy" is a great way to sell you shit. It is also a great way to convince you you that you are less valuable in the world of you cannot attain said "health". What are better indicators of a just and thriving world and existence? Share them o the comments.
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