Weightless: Making Space for My Resilient Body and Soul Dionne Evette
Weightless: Making Space for My Resilient Body and Soul Dionne Evette A poignant and ruthlessly honest journey through cultural expectations of size, race, and gender--and toward a brighter…
Specifikacia Weightless: Making Space for My Resilient Body and Soul Dionne Evette
Weightless: Making Space for My Resilient Body and Soul Dionne Evette
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 DionneMy body has not betrayed me; it has continued rebounding against all odds. From her early experiences of harassment to adolescent self-discovery in internet chatrooms to diagnosis with 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 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 woman are forced to navigate in the course of everyday life.