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The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love
Sonya Renee Taylor • 5 highlights
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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
body shame was a tool of White supremacist, capitalist patriarchy.
Sonya Renee Taylor • The Body Is Not an Apology

I am inherently beautiful and worthy, exactly as I am.
Kezia Calvert • Untangling the Web of Alcohol Abuse & ADHD
“I think this is like a widespread public health issue, and the way to start solving it is has got to be part of a bigger collective political movement, really, focusing on solving the inequality of beauty versus the insecurity of beauty, and once the inequality of beauty is addressed, the insecurity will naturally follow that pattern”
Zeynab Mohamed • Can Beauty Be A Source Of Joy?
Your body is for you, and the ways it has been impugned stem from the many people and practices and structures that have missed this fundamental idea, instead perpetuating the lie that your body is meant to please or serve or placate others.
Kate Manne • Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia
