Katrina

“For so many of us, sorry has become how we translate the word body.”
― Sonya Renee Taylor, The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love

“Naomi Wolfe, journalist and author of The Beauty Myth, writes, “A culture fixated on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience. Dieting is the most potent political sedative in history. A quietly mad population is a tractable one.”31 Wolfe strategically illustrates how body-shame social messaging is used as a means of controlling and centralizing political power. We need look no further than the 2016 U.S. presidential election to see Wolfe’s thesis in action. Candidate Hillary Clinton was exhaustingly scrutinized about her aesthetic presentation. Outfits, makeup, hairstyles were all fodder for the twenty-four-hour news cycle. Even the pro-Hillary, hundred-thousand-plus-member Facebook group Pantsuit Nation chose her penchant for eschewing skirts and dresses as the name of their collective, inadvertently directing public focus to her physical appearance rather than her decades of political experience.”
― Sonya Renee Taylor, The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love

“Depression, bipolar disorder, and other examples of neurodivergence7 are stigmatized because we are unwilling to extend the same care and treatment to our brains that we afford our bodies. If I broke my arm and never went to a see a doctor, not only would I be in extreme pain but the people in my life would be incensed by such a reckless choice. Yet we make statements like “It’s all in your head” all the time, minimizing the experiences of our brains and neglecting their care.”
― Sonya Renee Taylor, The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love

“Just knowing that there was a point in time in your history when you once loved your body can be a reminder that body shame is a fantastically crappy inheritance. We didn't give it to ourselves, are we are not obligated to keep it. We arrived on this planet as LOVE.”
― Sonya Renee Taylor, The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love