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

11 reviews

mxpringle's review against another edition

challenging informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Mental illness, Transphobia, Body shaming, Racism, and Sexism

emfass's review against another edition

challenging hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

Everybody should read this book. A loving look at all the systems that have been put in place to make us hate our bodies. Sonya Renee Taylor offers us a beautiful way back to ourselves and to each other.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Racism, Sexism, and Fatphobia

Moderate: Bullying, Ableism, and Misogyny

Minor: Transphobia, Homophobia, and Suicide

spacekee's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Racism, Suicide, and Fatphobia

Moderate: Transphobia, Sexual assault, Religious bigotry, Police brutality, Ableism, Homophobia, Sexism, Misogyny, and Islamophobia

Minor: Alcohol

kelly_e's review against another edition

informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.5

Title: The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love
Author: Sonya Renee Taylor
Genre: Self-Help
Rating: 4.50
Pub Date: January 25, 2018

T H R E E • W O R D S

Inspiring • Compassionate • Empowering

📖 S Y N O P S I S

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.

💭 T H O U G H T S

The Body Is Not an Apology was recommended to me as a host favourite during an event in my online bookclub. I am not really sure how it wasn't already on my radar, but I so grateful to have it recommended to me.

An introduction to body positivity, Sonya Renee Taylor opens up dialogue on the roles of systems of oppression in human dissatisfaction, discusses feminism, and explores living with intersectionality and chronic illness. I particularly liked the combination of personal stories and reflections paired with the helpful evidence and tools to help my own personal struggles with accepting my authentic self. The writing is good and I'd highly recommend listening to the audio read by the author for a truly immersive experience.

The Body Is Not an Apology was a much needed reminder of accepting my own body as it comes. As someone who deals with chronic pain and mental illness, there was a lot that struck me as highly relatable. This is certainly a book I can see myself coming back to time and time again when I need a reminder.

📚 R E C O M M E N D • T O
• feminists
• bookclubs
• everyone with a body!

🔖 F A V O U R I T E • Q U O T E S

"Equally damaging is our insistence that all bodies should be healthy. Health is not a state we owe the world. We are not less valuable, worthy, or lovable because we are not healthy. Lastly, there is no standard of health that is achievable for all bodies."

"When we decide that people’s bodies are wrong because we don’t understand them, we are trying to avoid the discomfort of divesting from an entire body-shame system."

"Being different is difficult in a world that tells us there is a 'normal.'" 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Chronic illness, and Fatphobia

Moderate: Eating disorder, Xenophobia, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Suicide, Ableism, Bullying, Sexism, Homophobia, Classism, Misogyny, Transphobia, Body horror, and Racism

Minor: Grief, Death, Violence, Drug use, Death of parent, and Toxic relationship

bladelikesbooks's review against another edition

informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

This book is about radical self love - what it is, why it’s important, and how you can work towards practising it. It is also about reflecting on your thoughts and actions. It’s also a collection of academic research, personal experiences and the experiences of Taylor’s students/clients. Taylor provides you with a toolkit to do the self love work within yourself. 

I really enjoyed reading this. I listened to the audiobook and I loved that it was narrator by the author. I prefer audiobooks of nonfiction, especially educative ones like this, because it feels like having an actual conversation with the author! This book gave me a lot to think about, it added to my perspectives, and made me reassess my own biases. That’s exactly what I wanted from it! This is definitely one I’ll be rereading multiple times. 

TWs/CWs - Ableism; Abortion; Addiction; Ageism; Antisemitism; Body shaming; Corruption; Death of a Parent; Fatphobia; Forced Imprisonment; Forced Sterilisation; Government Control; Heart Attack; Holocaust; Homophobia; Islamophobia; Kidnapping; Manipulation; Misogyny; Objectification; Oppression; Pregnancy; Police Brutality; Prison; Racism; Sexism; Sexual Harassment; Shame; Suicide; Terrorism; Torture; Toxic masculinity; Transphobia 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Body shaming, Sexism, and Fatphobia

Moderate: Misogyny, Antisemitism, Transphobia, Ableism, Suicide, Death of parent, Forced institutionalization, and Police brutality

Minor: Addiction, Torture, Islamophobia, Pregnancy, Abortion, Kidnapping, and Sexual harassment

brookey8888's review against another edition

challenging hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced

4.0

This was actually what I needed. I’ve been struggling lately and I think reading this and hopefully practicing what was in this will be very helpful. I really enjoyed this because it talked about body shaming but in all manors of body, which I think is really important. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Classism, Grief, Racism, Gaslighting, Eating disorder, Ableism, Body shaming, Chronic illness, Cultural appropriation, Mental illness, Misogyny, and Sexism

puttingwingsonwords's review against another edition

informative inspiring fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Body shaming, Fatphobia, Racism, Transphobia, Sexism, Bullying, Homophobia, and Misogyny

courtneyfalling's review against another edition

reflective medium-paced

3.0

I didn't disagree with anything in this book per se but I also feel like it didn't offer anything new about unpacking fatphobia and the impacts of oppression on individual bodies or on figuring out how to radically offer yourself love. I think I had a hard time getting into it because it made very sweeping statements without describing nearly any examples or details. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Fatphobia, and Bullying

Moderate: Racism, Ableism, and Misogyny

Minor: Transphobia and Homophobia

isabelmabel49's review against another edition

funny hopeful reflective medium-paced

Sonya Renee Taylor writes in a way that feels like she's chatting with you over coffee, like she's that friend that cares about you deeply and "that's why you gotta change something, pal". She takes the notions of 'self-love' and 'self-confidence' that we're all familiar with and uses them as gateway terms for a belief/thought system that is so much more powerful and fertile for growth. Emphasizing the necessity for both strong, healthy, and considerate intrapersonal AND interpersonal relationships, Taylor genuinely gives you hope for a future that is better in all manner of ways.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Body shaming, Bullying, Colonisation, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Gaslighting, Homophobia, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Suicide, Transphobia, Violence, and Xenophobia

All content warnings are mentioned as educative, informative, and/or personal experiences. Explicit detail is rarely used, and much of it is in statistics to underline a point.

lycheejelly's review against another edition

hopeful inspiring reflective slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism and Fatphobia

Minor: Acephobia/Arophobia, Biphobia, Antisemitism, Body shaming, Bullying, Colonisation, Death, Hate crime, Homophobia, Islamophobia, Lesbophobia, Misogyny, Racism, Transphobia, and Xenophobia