Sonya Renee Taylor is a New York Times best-selling[1] author, activist, thought leader, spoken word artist, and founder of The Body is Not An Apology global movement.

Taylor's work focuses on body liberation, racial justice, and transformational change using her framework of radical self-love.

[8] It strove to reduce violence against people who have been marginalized and have had violence perpetuated against them, including "racist violence including lynching, slavery, holocausts, and internment camps... LGBTQIA people being assaulted, murdered and driven to suicide regularly... rape and sexual assault... the bombing of abortion clinics and the murder of physicians supporting women's rights to autonomy over their own bodies... involuntary sterilization of people with disabilities... [and] debilitating shame that people around the world live with as a result of the psychological attacks our social and media machines wage against us, ending in bulimia and anorexia, addiction, stigma, racism, homophobia, ableism, sizeism, ageism, transphobia, mass self-hatred, and senseless violence as a result of body hatred.

[10] Taylor argues that the work of radical self-love is to remember our innate worthiness and divinity we possessed at birth before systems of oppression stripped that knowledge from us and replaced it with body shame and self-hatred.

Her global reach has included performances for audiences across the US, New Zealand, Australia, England, Scotland, Sweden, Canada, and the Netherlands.

Taylor’s venues for poetry performance have included prisons, mental health treatment facilities, homeless shelters, universities, festivals, and public schools across the globe.

In February 2021, the second edition of the book became a New York Times best-seller, placing at #6 in the Advice, How-To & Miscellaneous category.