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The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love by Sonya Renee Taylor
8 reviews
dblue236's review
4.0
Note: I have added content warnings to this review, but it is important to me that I point out that the trigger warnings are about discussions of those topics and NOT that the views of the author herself are triggering.
Moderate: Body shaming and Bullying
Minor: Homophobia, Mental illness, Racism, Sexism, and Islamophobia
julesfrigault's review against another edition
4.5
Moderate: Ableism, Body shaming, Bullying, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Misogyny, Racism, Transphobia, Xenophobia, Islamophobia, Lesbophobia, Gaslighting, and Classism
oliviapincin's review
5.0
Moderate: Ableism, Body shaming, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Mental illness, Racism, Sexual assault, Suicide, Transphobia, Police brutality, and Islamophobia
Minor: Cancer, Eating disorder, Hate crime, 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, Fatphobia, Racism, and Suicide
Moderate: Ableism, Child death, Homophobia, Sexism, Sexual assault, Transphobia, and Islamophobia
Minor: Addiction, Bullying, Cancer, Confinement, Death, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Sexual content, Slavery, Violence, Excrement, Police brutality, Antisemitism, Medical content, Suicide attempt, and Dysphoria
spacekee's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Fatphobia, Racism, and Suicide
Moderate: Ableism, Homophobia, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual assault, Transphobia, Police brutality, Islamophobia, and Religious bigotry
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: Ableism, Body shaming, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Racism, Sexism, and Transphobia
Moderate: Xenophobia, Antisemitism, and Islamophobia
bladelikesbooks's review
5.0
Graphic: Body shaming, Fatphobia, Racism, and Sexism
Moderate: Ableism, Misogyny, Suicide, Transphobia, Forced institutionalization, Police brutality, Antisemitism, and Death of parent
Minor: Addiction, Torture, Islamophobia, Kidnapping, Abortion, Pregnancy, and Sexual harassment
lycheejelly's review against another edition
3.0
Moderate: Ableism and Fatphobia
Minor: Biphobia, Body shaming, Bullying, Death, Hate crime, Homophobia, Misogyny, Racism, Transphobia, Xenophobia, Antisemitism, Islamophobia, Acephobia/Arophobia, Lesbophobia, and Colonisation