Written by: Sonya Renee Taylor
First line: Long before there was a digital media and education company or a radical self-love movement with hundreds of thousands of followers on our website and social media pages, before anyone cared to write about us in newsprint or interview me on television, before people began to send me photos of their bodies with my words etched in ink on their backs, forearms, and shoulders (which never stops being awesome and weird), there was a word...well, words.
Why you should read this book: Radical self-love asks us to embrace our bodies, with all their unique diversities and divergences, for their remarkable abilities to contain our spirits and allow us to live our lives, and to take this love to the extreme and extend to all bodies the same joyful and shameless celebration. Taylor categorizes the cultural shame and narrow boundaries of acceptable forms as body terrorism and assures us that whoever we are, however we look, and whatever our abilities, we are enough, and worthy of kindness, first from ourselves, but also from the world. Full of provocative inquiries and reflections, this remarkable and important book provides a road map for active and healthy change that every reader can use to improve the world, to increase their own comfort in their own skin.
Why you shouldn't read this book: You lack a corporeal form and don't interact with anyone who lives in a body. (This book should be required reading for being human.)
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