Sonya Renee Taylor

Spoken Word Artist & Poet; Bestselling Author & Creator of The Body is Not An Apology; Racial Justice Activist

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Sonya Renee Taylor Biography

Sonya Renee Taylor is a New York Times best-selling author, world-renowned activist and thought leader on racial justice, body liberation and transformational change, international award-winning artist, and founder of The Body Is Not an Apology (TBINAA), a global digital media and education company exploring the intersections of identity, healing, and social justice through the framework of radical self-love. In her book of the same name, “The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love,” Taylor lays out her radical self-love vision, arguing that all people arrive on this planet in a state of self-love before internalizing messages of shame and injustice from systems of oppression. Healing, Taylor suggests, takes place through reconnecting with our inherent divine ‘enoughness’, transforming how we live in and relate to both our bodies and the bodies of others. Taylor writes, “Using the term ‘radical’ elevates the reality that our society requires a drastic political, economic, and social reformation in the ways in which we deal with bodies and body difference.”

Taylor is the author of seven books, including the New York Times bestseller The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self Love (1st and 2nd editions), Your Body Is Not an Apology Workbook, Celebrate Your Body (and Its Changes, Too!), poetry collection A Little Truth on Your Shirt, The Book of Radical Answers (That I Know You Already Know) (Dial Press 2023), and The Journal of Radical Permission co-authored with activist (stylized as) ‘adrienne maree brown’. She is also co-editor with the late Cat Pausé of The Routledge International Handbook of Fat Studies. She has been the recipient of numerous awards and honors over the past two decades, from her National Individual Poetry Slam Championship award in 2004 to her 2016 invitation by the Obama administration to participate in the White House Forum on LGBT and Disability Issues. More recently, she was awarded a Global Impact Visa where she served as an inaugural Edmund Hillary Fellow in Aotearoa (New Zealand) from 2017-2020.

Taylor’s passion for the arts and collective liberation began at an early age. She graduated from the Pittsburgh High School for Creative and Performing Arts as a musical theater major in 1995. She then went on to earn a bachelor’s degree in Sociology from HBCU Hampton University and a Master of Science in Administration in Organizational Management from Trinity College. This education informed Taylor’s non-profit, advocacy, and activism career, which included work as a sexuality health educator, therapeutic wilderness counselor; mental health case worker; Director of Peer Education at HIPS (Helping Individual Prostitutes Survive) in Washington, D.C.; and Capacity Building and Training Director at the Los Angeles-based Black AIDS Institute.

For over a decade, Taylor built an award-winning international performance poetry and poetry slam career. It was in this iteration of her journey that she stumbled into her greater purpose. At the Southern Fried Poetry Slam in Knoxville, Tennessee in the summer of 2010, Taylor found herself in a conversation with a friend that would change the trajectory of her life. During this conversation, Taylor first uttered the words, “Your body is not an apology.” She did not know this moment of radical vulnerability with a friend would become a poem, then Facebook page, then launch an international movement and shift the cultural lens around bodies and justice through the power of radical self-love. As of 2021, TBINAA’s content has reached tens of millions of people across the world, with visitors to the website from over 140 countries. The digital media platform boasts an Article Library with nearly 1,000 articles from writers across the globe, solidifying TBINAA as one of the pioneering digital media and educational platforms exploring bodies, understanding identities and connecting radical self-love with global issues of intersectional social justice.

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Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 05/23/2025.

Sonya Renee Taylor Videos

  • Sonya Renee Taylor | 2021 Collective Impact Action Summit
    In this powerful keynote address, author, entrepreneur, poet, and activist Sonya Renee Taylor shares from her book The Body is Not an Apology.
  • Let's Replace Cancel Culture with Accountability | Sonya Renee
    Sonya explores the impact of calling out and calling in people who have caused harm. She offers us a third alternative - “calling on”. We often...
  • Sonya Renee Taylor on combating racism with action
    In the aftermath of George Floyd's death, author and activist Sonya Renee Taylor says there's been a "great white woke-ness," but it's not enough to...

Sonya Renee Taylor Books

  • Your Body Is Not an Apology Workbook: Tools for Living Radical Self-Love
    Your Body Is Not an Apology Workbook: Tools for Living Radical Self-Love
  • The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love (16pt Large Print Edition)
    The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love (16pt Large Print Edition)
  • A Little Truth on Your Shirt: A Collection of Poems
    A Little Truth on Your Shirt: A Collection of Poems

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