Sublime

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.

body shame was a tool of White supremacist, capitalist patriarchy.

Your body need not be a prison sentence.

Under

help.”

in each of us is radical self-love.

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 envisions radical healing divorced from the ableist, capitalist White supremacy of traditional “self-help.