Published in 2018
137 pages
Sonya Renee Taylor is the founder and executive officer of The Body Is Not An Apology, an international movement and organization committed to radical self-love and body empowerment. A former national and international poetry-slam champion, an author, an educator, and an award-winning activist, she tours the world sharing lectures, workshops, and performances focused on radical unapologetic healing and personal transformation. She lives in the California Bay Area.
What is this book about?
A global movement guided by love.
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.
