![]() This groundbreaking book goes further, helping us to manage the challenges that stem from oppression and moving beyond self-love and into belonging. For marginalized people, a focus on self-love can be a spoonful of sugar that makes the oppression go down. Focusing only on self-love ignores the important fact that we have negative experiences because our culture has targeted certain bodies and people for abuse or alienation. Radical Belonging is not a simple self-love treatise. Being erased and devalued impacts our ability to regulate our emotions, our relationships with others, our health and longevity, our finances, our ability to realize dreams, and whether we will be accepted, loved, or even safe. Being "othered" and the body shame it spurs is not "just" a feeling. ![]() ![]() Those of us who don't fit into the "mythical norm" (white, male, cisgender, able-bodied, slender, Christian, etc.)-which is to say, most of us-are demanding our basic right: To know that who we are matters. We are in the midst of a cultural moment. ![]() This isn't your personal failing it means that our culture is failing you. Too many of us feel alienated from our bodies. ![]()
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