ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Sonya Renee Taylor is a world-renown activist, author, artist, and spiritual trans formational leader and the founder of The Body Is Not an Apology, a movement and digital media and education company exploring the intersections of identity, healing, and social justice using the framework of radical self-love. The content and message of her book The Body Is Not an Apology have changed the lives of millions of people across the globe, shifting how we live in and relate to our bodies and the bodies of others, and shifting us from a relationship of shame and injustice to a relationship bound by love. She is also the author of several books, including Celebrate Your Body (and Its Changes Too!), and coeditor of the International Handbook of Fat Studies (Routledge, 2021), and her writing appears in numerous anthologies. Sonya is an international-award-winning performance poet and speaker who has appeared across the United States and in New Zealand, Australia, England, Scotland, Sweden, Germany, Brazil, Canada, the Netherlands, Bosnia, and other countries. Sonya and her work have been featured by CBS, CNN, NPR, HBO, BET, MTV, TV One, PBS, the New York Times, New York magazine, MSNBC.com, Today.com, Huffington Post, Vogue Australia, Playboy, Shape.com, Ms. magazine, and many more forums. She was a 2016 invitee to the Obama White House to speak on the intersection of LGBTQIAA and disability issues. In 2017, she was an inaugural selectee of the Edmund Hillary Fellowship for global change makers, and she has shared stages with luminaries such as Angela Davis, Sonia Sanchez, Amy Goodman, Carrie Mae Weems, Theaster Gates, Harry Belafonte, Dr. Cornel West, Hillary Rodham Clinton, the late Amiri Baraka, and numerous others. She continues to perform, teach, and transform lives globally.