Sonya Renee Taylor and the Power of Radical Self Love

March 12, 2021 @ 7:00 p.m. EST

For this year's celebration of Herstory Month, the Sexuality, Women, and Gender Center is pleased to welcome Sonya Renee Taylor, author of The Body Is Not An Apology, to campus via Zoom. She will give a talk on the Power of Radical Self-Love, as well as answer questions from the Bowdoin Community. This conversation will be moderated by Vanessa Apira '21 and Kyra Green, Assistant Dean of Admissions and interim director of the Center for Multicultural Life.

Sonya Renee Taylor is the Founder and Radical Executive Officer of The Body is Not An Apology, a digital media and education company promoting radical self-love and body empowerment as the foundational tool for social justice and global transformation. Sonya's work as a highly sought-after award-winning Performance Poet, activist, and transformational leader continues to have global reach. Sonya is a former National and International poetry slam champion, author of two books, including The Body is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love, educator and thought leader who has enlightened and inspired organizations, audiences and individuals from board rooms to prisons, universities to homeless shelters, elementary schools to some of the biggest stages in the world.