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

2.0

This book really didn't hit me. There were a lot of words in this book that I felt didn't say that much. For such a short book, it was quite repetitive and gave more assurances that I was "divine" and that we were "on a transformative journey together" than actually helping me work through any body dysmorphia or achieve any "radical self-love" (I understand that isn't something that happens from reading a 130 page book and Taylor does articulate that it is a life-long process of work, but this didn't even make me that excited or give me a concrete place to get started). I do appreciate Taylor's inclusive vision of what the "body" is: her book makes you consider how race, age, gender, abilities, etc. are all part of the body, not just the weight or shape of a body. It did make me realize how much of my own body dissatisfaction (past and present) is rooted in racism and ableism, not just fatphobia.