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The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love by Sonya Renee Taylor
6 reviews
oliviapincin's review
5.0
Moderate: Islamophobia, Body shaming, Suicide, Homophobia, Transphobia, Fatphobia, Ableism, Sexual assault, Racism, Police brutality, and Mental illness
Minor: Cancer, Hate crime, Eating disorder, and Deportation
rieviolet's review against another edition
3.5
I found the informative parts very interesting and actually, I wish that more time and pages could've been spent on such reflections. However, I think that this could be a good starting point for people completely new to such themes.
The overall structure of the book didn't entirely convince me. I think that the essay-style sections and the self-help ones didn't blend together well. It might be a bit of a "me problem" as well, as I don't do very well with the self-improvement genre.
Also, as another reviewer pointed out, the mixing of academic and more conversational language made the writing style feel a bit all over the place.
Graphic: Body shaming, Suicide, Fatphobia, and Racism
Moderate: Ableism, Transphobia, Islamophobia, Child death, Sexism, Sexual assault, and Homophobia
Minor: Police brutality, Sexual content, Suicide attempt, Bullying, Confinement, Death, Addiction, Antisemitism, Dysphoria, Slavery, Eating disorder, Medical content, Cancer, Mental illness, Violence, and Excrement
spacekee's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Racism, Suicide, and Fatphobia
Moderate: Transphobia, Sexual assault, Religious bigotry, Police brutality, Ableism, Homophobia, Sexism, Misogyny, and Islamophobia
Minor: Alcohol
tangleroot_eli's review against another edition
Beyond that, this wasn't the mindblowing, heart-opening revelation so many people promised me it would be. If it were my first exposure to the concepts that Taylor is packaging under the label "radical self-love," maybe I would be as madly in love with it as others are. But I found little here that I haven't been finding in therapy and my spiritual practice for almost a decade. tbh, I took more notes on Ijeoma Oluo's introduction than on the body of the text.
Graphic: Racism, Sexism, Body shaming, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Ableism, and Transphobia
Moderate: Antisemitism, Xenophobia, and Islamophobia
bladelikesbooks's review
5.0
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
lycheejelly's review against another edition
3.0
Moderate: Ableism and Fatphobia
Minor: Acephobia/Arophobia, Biphobia, Antisemitism, Body shaming, Bullying, Colonisation, Death, Hate crime, Homophobia, Islamophobia, Lesbophobia, Misogyny, Racism, Transphobia, and Xenophobia