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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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Day drinking and shoe shopping with Dr. Kimberly Crenshaw in the Netherlands. #bestlife

I want people to stop publishing these articles and posts that say love and self love is not the answer. The reason it ain't the answer is not because love is failing. The issue is not Love. The issue is these impotent ass definitions we've been floating around for love. No wonder we are in shitty romantic relationships, dysfunctional parent/child dynamics, abusive sibling,co-worker relationships. Cause you been practicing a "love" that demands nothing. You've been accepting the noun kind of love. You don't even know what the verb kind looks like. Love as ACTION as CHANGE as TRANSFORMATION can shift the entire world. LOVE applied to ourselves and then to the larger planet ABSOLUTELY can transform individuals and topple structures. The issue isn't love. The issue is that you've been practicing a love that don't ask for shit, so it ain't getting shit. #runteldat #radicalselfLoveisradicalforareason

I am leaving my family and I feel all the things.What showers of blessing fell during this time. I received the gift of being with my aunts and sisters as we served as doulas for my grandmother's transition from human form to angel and ancestor. My relationship with Pittsburgh has been marred with much pain but I felt an access to healing during this trip. I spent more time with my siblings collectively than I have in my entire life. We were not all raised together but we are flesh of each other's flesh, soul tied. Our voices canon off walls in the same ways. We stay gloriously adorned in the same ways. Like apples plucked from different orchards we somehow look and feel and taste the same. We move and breath and think in such wildly similar ways. DNA is a trip. I am grateful today for these humans i am cellularly connected to. It is often in death that the worst of us seeps out. But in this season we showed up as unfiltered unadulterated pure precious love for one another. We showed up as kindness and care. As meals, hugs, blankets over dozed off relatives laps and sleeping selfies. We showed up as jokes and songs around my grandmother's bed. We showed up as cups of coffee. We showed up celebrating each others small but enormous steps toward newfound courage. we showed up laughing through photos and crying too but never only tears. Our tears were equal parts gratitude and grief. A recipe of love and endurance. I am leaving a place that has historically represented lack for me...full. Overflowing with the love my grandmother poured into us. We are her progeny, her legacy, her good work made manifest in this realm. Well done Kathryn Arnetia Taylor. Well done grandma. well done.

it is not our work solely nor are we absolved from doing the work.

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Inviting Brooklyn WOC to join the #bedstuybookclub ! Our next meeting is on June 8 (see details below). The book: #thebodyisnotanapology
LET ME KNOW IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS. Or go to the Insta page @bedstuybookclub and fearless leader Beatriz will answer. Xoxoxoxo
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one week away ✨✨✨ our Book Club meeting on June 8th takes place at @meta.den , a beautiful POC-only, queer-centered healing space in Ridgewood (1814 Bleecker St, apt 1B - at Bleecker and Seneca). 🌈 We’re talking BODY through @sonyareneetaylor ‘s brilliant work, @thebodyisnotanapology . ✨ after Book Club @danthelioness of @girlemboldened & your very own @beatrizk are hosting a restorative workshop open only to Fat Womxn and Femmes of Color. 🥰🥰 this is one of the only $free.99 workshops that discusses the intersection of color and size. 👉🏼👉🏼 RSVP through link in bio.

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