The Body Is Not an Apology
by Sonya Renee Taylor
Radical self-love as a political and personal practice: body shame as a system, the 'three peaces' (making peace with not understanding, with difference, with your body), and the idea that how we treat our bodies mirrors how we treat others'. Passionate and uncompromising.
Read it if…
you want a body-acceptance book that is also an argument about justice.
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Skip it if…
you want health advice; it is about shame and systems.
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Three things you will actually use
- Your body is not an apology.
- Body shame is taught; it can be untaught.
- Radical self-love is practised, not felt.
Do this first
Read the chapter on the three peaces and do the first.
Our verdict
Body acceptance as justice.
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