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Summary:

"To build a world that works for everyone, we must first make the radical decision to love every facet of ourselves. . . . 'The body is not an apology' is the mantra we should all embrace." -Kimberlé Crenshaw, legal scholar and founder and Executive Director, African American Policy Forum"--Provided by publisher.
Humans are a varied and divergent bunch with all manner of beliefs, morals, and bodies. Unfortunately, systems of oppression thrive off our inability to make peace with difference, and injure the relationship we have with our own bodies. World-renowned activist and poet Sonya Renee Taylor invites us to reconnect with the radical origins of our minds and bodies and celebrate our collective, enduring strength. As we awaken to our own indoctrinated body shame, we feel inspired to interrupt the systems that perpetuate body shame and oppression against all bodies. When we act from this truth on a global scale, we usher in the transformative opportunity of radical self-love, which is the opportunity for a more just, equitable, and compassionate world-- for us all. This second edition includes stories from Taylor's travels around the world combating body terrorism and shines a light on the path toward liberation guided by love. In a brand new final chapter, Taylor offers specific tools, actions, and resources for confronting racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, and transphobia, as well as providing a case study showing how radical self-love not only dismantles shame and self-loathing in us but has the power to dismantle entire systems of injustice.

Table of Contents:

• Making self-love radical
• Shame, guilt, and apology
• then and now
• Building a radical self-love practice in an age of loathing
• A new way ordered by love
• How to fight with love
• Conclusion.

Author/Creator:

Taylor, Sonya Renee , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

The body is not an apology: the power of radical self-love [by Taylor, S.R.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Body is not an apology [by Taylor, S.R.] (Second edition; Oakland, CA : Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc., [2021] — ISBN 9781523090990; LCCN 2020040634; OCLC Number 1195815348)

Subjects:

Self-acceptance

Self-perception

Body image

Human body

General Notes:

New York Times bestseller.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-139) and index.
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 01, 2021).

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

BF575.S37 T39 2021eb

ISBNs:

9781523091010 (electronic book)
1523091010 (electronic book)
9781523091003 (electronic book)
1523091002 (electronic book)
9781523090990 (paperback) [Invalid]
1523090995 (paperback) [Invalid]
9781626569768 [Invalid]
1626569762 [Invalid]
9781523091027 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

1226761809