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The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love
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My hunch was, the more unapologetically I showed up in my body, in my community, my job, family, and world, one of two things would happen: either I would pass on to others the power and permission to be their unapologetic selves, or others would feel indicted and intimidated by my unapologetic being and would attempt to contain or shrink me.
Sonya Renee Taylor • The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love
Racism, sexism, ableism, homo- and transphobia, ageism, fatphobia are algorithms created by humans’ struggle to make peace with the body. A radical self-love world is a world free from the systems of oppression that make it difficult and sometimes deadly to live in our bodies.
Sonya Renee Taylor • The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love
I have to constantly re-identify myself to myself, reactivate my own standards, my own convictions about what I’m doing and why.
—Nina Simone
I am not simply proposing that you make peace with your body because your body shame is making you miserable. I am proposing you do it because it’s making us miserable too.
Sonya Renee Taylor • The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love
Living in a female body, a Black body, an aging body, a fat body, a body with mental illness is to awaken daily to a planet that expects a certain set of apologies to already live on our tongues. There is a level of “not enough” or “too much” sewn into these strands of difference.
Sonya Renee Taylor • The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love
There are minuscule daily ways each of us will be asked to apologize for our bodies, no matter how “normal” they appear. The conservative haircut needed to placate the new supervisor, the tattoo you cover when you step into an office building to increase your chances of being treated “professionally” are examples of tiny apologies society will ask
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