Like many of us, I’m on a journey to accept myself while becoming the best version of that person. For a lot of us, myself included, this means coming to terms with my body and the ways it does and does not fit into what society says a body should look like, and the ways that is and is not within my power to control.
I’ve titled this post after Sonya Renee Taylor’s 2018 work The Body is Not an Apology, which is the gold standard in the literature of radical self-love. The library has a paper copy of the 2021 second edition, which contains even more wonderful content about Taylor’s travels and continued scholarship. That revised edition is available as an instantly available audiobook on hoopla (5 hours long, read by the author), an audiobook on OverDrive/Libby through the Indiana Digital Library, and an ebook on OverDrive/Libby through the Indiana Digital Library. The original 2018 edition (still great!) is available instantly as an ebook from hoopla, as well as on OverDrive/Libby through the Indiana Digital Library as both an ebook and an audiobook. Want to put Taylor’s lessons into practice in your own life? Check out the workbook she created to go along with her text, instantly from hoopla.
Related reading:
Fitness for Every Body by Meg Boggs
Every Body: an honest and open look at sex from every angle by Julia Rothman (print) (ebook through the Indiana Digital Library)
Yoke: my yoga of self-acceptance by Jessamyn Stanley (print) (ebook through the Indiana Digital Library) (ebook and audiobook on hoopla)
