A Night with Sonya Renee Taylor

Pierce Delahunt
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1 min readMar 29, 2017
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I attended a night with poet-activist Sonya Renee Taylor, who founded The Body is Not An Apology movement. She spoke at Florida State, hosted by the Women’s Student Union and Pride FSU.

She begins with some poetry…

And goes into life lessons…

One poem about White privilege:

And its lessons:

More poetry:

Closing thoughts:

Her final poem, The Body is Not an Apology, answers what the body is:

Much gratitude to the Pride FSU, the Women’s Student Union, Sonya Renee Taylor, and her dog:

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Pierce Delahunt
DelapierceD

Social Emotional Leftist: If our Love & Light movements do not address systemic injustice, they are neither of those things