Sonya Renee Taylor: The Body is Not an Apology

“The body is not a math test / The body is not a wrong answer” writes activist, performer, and author Sonya Renee Taylor in her poem “The Body Is Not An Apology.” Now a book, pedagogy, and online community, the piece’s title has come to be shorthand for Taylor’s vision of a radical self-love movement that centers the experiences of marginalized bodies. Taylor is the keynote speaker for NC State’s Womxn’s Herstory Month. —Josephine McRobbie