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

19 reviews

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: 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

overbooked207's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

📖 The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love by Sonya Renee Taylor(Second Edition) Book Review 📖

8th book of January 2023 and 8th of the year:

“Systems do not maintain themselves; even our lack of intervention is an act of maintenance. Every structure in every society is upheld by the active and passive assistance of other human beings.”

“Radical self-love demands that we see ourselves and others in the fullness of our complexities and intersections and that we work to create space for those intersections.”

I absolutely LOVED this book! It’s inclusive; the quotes, writing, and messages/reminders are beautiful and impactful; so many parts really hit me hard on a personal level; it talks about the origins of the body positivity movement and the people who started it, and it also addresses the racist, oppressive, transphobic, ableist, and sexist origins of the systems, industries, companies, etc. that thrive off of self-doubt/self-hatred that are SO important to hear/learn about; the audiobook was beautifully narrated by the author; and the cover is stunning! This quickly became an all-time favorite book that I want everyone to read, and I want to buy and re-read/annotate it hopefully soon! TWs for ableism, body shaming, bullying, classism, eating disorder, fatphobia, grief, homophobia, mental illness, racism, sexism, sexual assault, suicide, and transphobia📖💕

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Body shaming, Bullying, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Mental illness, Racism, Sexism, Sexual assault, Suicide, Transphobia, Grief, and Classism

aliciawhatsthestory's review against another edition

challenging reflective fast-paced

5.0

This book is not a self-help book; it’s a manifesto. 

The Body is Not an Apology has been on my TBR for literal years now, and I’m so glad I finally got to it. I went in expecting body positivity, or even more radical fat positivity, but this book is about so much more than either of those things. It talks through how radical self-love is an intersectional act of rebellion against body terrorism not only against your own body but also against the bodies of everyone else in a society that stigmatizes and oppressed bodies in a multitude of ways. It’s full of challenges to reflect on and change how we perceive, treat, and talk about our own bodies and the bodies of others, not to make ourselves feel better, but to actually make things better. It’s an absolute must-read.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Fatphobia, Homophobia, Racism, Sexism, and Transphobia

All the trigger warnings are mentioned as issues to be dealt with not as the views of the author

ashleycmms's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Racism, Sexism, Sexual violence, Suicide, Transphobia, and Police brutality

ollie_again's review against another edition

inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Sexual assault, and Transphobia

Moderate: Body shaming, Racism, and Sexism

Minor: Violence and Xenophobia

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

puttingwingsonwords's review against another edition

informative inspiring fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

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

sierrascha's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Minor: Ableism, Body shaming, Chronic illness, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Mental illness, Sexism, Suicide, Transphobia, Violence, and Dysphoria

isabelmabel49's review

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, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Suicide, Transphobia, Violence, Xenophobia, Gaslighting, and Colonisation

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.