Talking Weightless with Evette Dionne

12/12/22 • 46 min

Today's guest is Evette Dion, author of the new book Weightless. Jill and Evette discuss navigating the world in a fat body, medical fatphobia, reality TV, and Evette recommends some books about body positivity and fat liberation.

Books mentioned in this episode:

Landwhale by Jes Baker

Hunger by Roxane Gay

Bad Fat Black Girl by Sesali Bowen

anything by Marianne Kirby

Belly of the Beast by Da'Shaun Harrison

Fearing the Black Body by Sabrina Strings

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Books mentioned in this episode:

Landwhale by Jes Baker

Hunger by Roxane Gay

Bad Fat Black Girl by Sesali Bowen

anything by Marianne Kirby

Belly of the Beast by Da'Shaun Harrison

Fearing the Black Body by Sabrina Strings

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Best audiobooks of the year with Robin Whitten from AudioFile!

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Books mentioned in this episode

The Angel of Rome by Jess Walter

The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell

Life Between the Tides by Adam Nicolson

Inside Voice by Lake Bell

Witches Abroad by Terry Pratchett

The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake

Eyes that Speak to the Stars by Joanna Ho

How Do You Live? by Genzaburo Yoshino

Finding Me by Viola Davis

I Was Better Last Night by Harvey Fierstein

The Bullet That Missed by Richard Osman

Birds of Prey, ed. by Harlan Coben

The Match by Harlan Coben

The Maid by Nita Prose

His Name is George Floyd by Robert Samuels and Tolouse Olorunnipa

The Revolutionary by Stacy Schiff

You Don't Know Us Negroes by Zora Neale Hurston

Thank You For Listening by Julia Whelan

Delilah Green Doesn't Care by Ashley Herring Blake

Ain't Burned That Bright by Jason Reynolds

The Honeys by Ryan La Sala

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Pro Book Nerds Best Reads of 2022

Emma, Joe, and Jill discuss the best books they read this year! Join for a lively conversation about the books the nerds loved the most. We loved these books so much that Joe refers to "before" and "after" this book, Jill loves a title so much she'd marry it if she could, and Emma owns five print copies (soon to be seven) of one of these titles. Let us know what books YOU loved this much by sending us an email or a comment on social media.

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