TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dionne,Evette
TI  - Weightless: making space for my resilient body and soul 
SN  - 9780063076365
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
KW  - Women, Black
KW  - Biography
KW  - Overweight women
KW  - United States
KW  - Overweight persons
KW  - African American women authors
KW  - African American women
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Racism
KW  - Anecdotes
KW  - Sexism
KW  - Self-realization in women
KW  - Self-esteem in women
N2  - "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 relationship with friends, sex, motherhood, agoraphobia, health, pop culture, and self-image.  Along the way, she lifts 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 either 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."--page 2 of cover
ER  -