EAN: 9780063076365

WEIGHTLESS - EVETTE DIONNE GEBUNDEN

A poignant and ruthlessly honest journey through cultural expectations of size  race  and
gender-and toward a brighter future-from National Book Award nominee Evette Dionne My body has
not betrayed me  it has continued rebounding against all odds. It is a body that others map
their expectations on  but it has never let me down. In this insightful  funny  and whip-smart
book  acclaimed writer Evette Dionne explores the minefields fat Black women are forced to
navigate in the course of everyday life. From her early experiences of harassment to adolescent
self-discovery in internet chatrooms to a diagnosis of heart failure at age twenty-nine  Dionne
tracks her relationships with friendship  sex  motherhood  agoraphobia  health  pop culture 
and self-image. Along the way  she lifts back the curtain to reveal the subtle  insidious forms
of surveillance and control levied at fat women: At the doctor's office  where any health
ailment is treated with a directive to lose weight. On dating sites  where larger bodies are
rejected or fetishized. On TV  where fat characters are asexual comedic relief. But Dionne's
unflinching account of our deeply held prejudices is matched by her fierce belief in the power
of self-love. An unmissable portrait of a woman on a journey toward understanding our society
and herself  Weightless holds up a mirror to the world we live in and asks us to imagine the
future we deserve.

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