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taking out the toxic, 64, 66–68, 94–98unapologetic action, 65, 70–72, 105–11framework, reframing, 98–100free diving, 59gender, shifting cultural and historicalroles, 38gender-nonconforming children, body shame messages, 28“good” vs, “bad,” as binary, 104government: role in body shame, 45–50women in, 47–48grace, giving self, 113–14hair: feminine ideals, 25–26as source of shame, 109–11Health at Every Size (HAES)movement, 21health trolling, 21hearts, changing, 83–87help, asking for, 111–13hierarchy, social, 49of bodies, 58, 79–80, 87HIV: discrimination against HIV-positive people, 85oppressive laws, 47homosexuality, laws against, 46.See also discrimination, widespread; LGTB legislationidentity politics, criticism, 87implicit bias, 79–81incarceration, mass, 84in-group out-group bias, 30–31, 80injustice, bodily nature, 4inside voice, working to speak from, 90intersectionality, 8–9intimacy, building, 105–7
Jim Crow, 84jogging, negative experience, 108–9language, power of native tongue, 78–79laws, oppressive, 46–50LGTB legislation, 51. See also discrimination, widespread; homosexuality,laws againstliberation, 115–16Lynn, Tara, 15–16makeup. See beauty productsmantras, 102–3masculinity, toxic, 35media: historic types, 38–39idealized female body, 40–41messages about Arab terrorism, 62neutralizing toxic messages, 66–68role in shaping body perceptions, 38–41. See also advertisingmedia fast, 95–96meditation, 100–3mental health, 69–70. See also suicidesmeta-shame, 36mind matters, 64, 68–70banish the binary, 103–5meditate on a mantra, 100–3reframe your framework, 98–100Montes, Juan Manuel, 86movement, finding joy in, 107–9neurodivergence, 69–70New Jim Crow, The, 84orgasm, through touch, 106–7Pantsuit Nation, 48peace, three kinds, 17–24
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Praise for The Body Is Not an Apolo
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The Body Is Not an Apology
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The Body Is Not an ApologyCopyright
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For Terry Lyn Hines (1959-2012)My f
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ContentsPrologue1 Making Self-Love
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PrologueLong before there was a dig
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about my dimpled thighs I’d hear,
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The Body Is Not an Apology
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struggling with his sense of self (
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not abstractions; they are the outc
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Biggest Loser encourage dangerous a
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and accept the bodies of others. Th
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render for being in your body as yo
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guilt and blame squarely on the sho
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notion with me, I did what any Gen
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1. Make peace with not understandin
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diversity in weight and size are na
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television show and into living in
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partially-bald head would never be
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afternoon, while Nia, I, and severa
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are capable of change. Seeing diffe
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encounter feeling as if they had do
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still echoing against the walls of
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masculine identities or whose gende
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Unapologetic Inquiry #13How has bod
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possibilities, and creative possibi
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We know we are on the island of det
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• The “Asexualization Act” of
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Remember, most us live at the inter
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Radical ReflectionOur beliefs about
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to my next destination, under the o
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3Building a Radical Self-Love Pract
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the world. Swim at Your Own Risk.
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“But how do I break out of the fe
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Have you ever met someone and thoug
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of our heads and into our bodies. L
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you watch, read, or listen to somet
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slabs of separation, giving us much
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Page 95 and 96: 5Your Radical Self-Love ToolkitYou
Page 97 and 98: Unapologetic Inquiry #24Do you feel
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Page 137 and 138: About the AuthorSonya Renee Taylor
Page 139 and 140: About TBINAAwww.TBINAA.comThe Body
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