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Evette Dionne

Biography

Evette Dionne

Evette Dionne is a journalist, an editor and a pop-culture critic. She is the National Book Award–nominated author of LIFTING AS WE CLIMB: Black Women’s Battle for the Ballot Box, a middle-grade nonfiction book about Black women suffragists, and WEIGHTLESS: Making Space for My Resilient Body and Soul, a memoir. Her work has appeared in Glamour, Cosmopolitan, Time, the New York Times, the Guardian and Teen Vogue, among other publications. A graduate of Bennett College, Dionne is based in Denver, where she works as the executive editor of YES! Media.

Evette Dionne

Books by Evette Dionne

Weightless: Making Space for My Resilient Body and Soul
by Evette Dionne - Memoir, Nonfiction

In WEIGHTLESS, acclaimed writer Evette Dionne explores the minefields that fat Black woman are forced to navigate in the course of everyday life. From her early experiences of harassment to adolescent self-discovery in internet chat rooms to diagnosis with heart failure at age 29, 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. But Dionne’s unflinching account of our deeply held prejudices is matched by her fierce belief in the power of self-love.