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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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talking a brand-new life. Perhaps t
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4A New Way Ordered by LoveA World f
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enough. Although each of us is inhe
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that!” “He needs to stop being
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not abdicate our responsibility for
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employment discrimination, housing
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