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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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Posted @withrepost • @handwrittenrevolution "Lately we’ve been coming back to a truth that’s all too easy to forget when the pain of oppression is so loud: it’s not enough to resist and fight the status quo of extreme capitalism and the transphobic white supremacist heteropatriarchy.
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To do so keeps us trapped in a binary that will always privilege toxic power.
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We resist and fight to survive, and it is often driven by crisis and trauma. Trauma is rooted in pain and stress. Our collective liberation is not found in this place. Make no mistake; fighting back is often part of healing and staying alive. It’s necessary. And, it’s not all we are capable of.
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We also get to dream and build the world we want, on our terms. Not in response to our oppressors. In response to US: our thriving while feeling pain, our laughing together even when they want us dead, our supporting each other as they try to conquer and divide, our truth telling even as they try to erase us, our attempts to redistribute power and resources as they try to crush us. And our identities that exist wholly outside of this system. We are pretty amazing, actually. And binaries always = death.
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Let’s move to the overlap in this Venn diagram. And let us not allow our privilege to turn that space to saviorism, because that’s still existing in the binary of our oppressors.
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THIS IS A WHOLE SERMON!!!! What an incredibly necessary reminder. We are what we are seeking. it lives in us beneath the layers of fear and indoctrination. Radical self love is that magic. When we stop avoiding the work we welcome ourselves back to ourselves. #Radicalselflovelessons #TheBodyisNotanApology #bodyliberation #bodypo
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