The Body Is Not An Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love by Sonya Renee Taylor

"Equally damaging is our insistence that all bodies should be healthy. Health is not a state we owe the world. We are not less valuable, worthy or lovable because we are not healthy...there is no standard of health that is achievable for all bodies. Our belief that there should be anchors the systemic oppression of ableism and reinforces the notion that people with illnesses and disabilities have defective bodies rather than different bodies...We must move from occasionally celebrating difference...to developing a difference-celebrating culture."