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Evette Dionne

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Evette Dionne

is the executive editor at YES! ÎÞÂëÊÓƵ, where she leads YES! Magazine. She is the former editor-in-chief at Bitch ÎÞÂëÊÓƵ, and an award-winning journalist, pop culture critic, and magazine editor who covers culture and politics through the lenses of race, gender, class, and size. Her newest book, Weightless: Making Space for My Resilient Body and Soul, was published in December 2022 by Ecco. She’s also the author of Lifting As We Climb, which was longlisted for a National Book Award and won a Coretta Scott King author honor. Evette is based in Denver, and speaks English.


Articles By This Author
The Ease of Access
What if we lived in a world where access was not treated as an afterthought, but was embedded in every element of our society instead?
Pedro Dos Santos, a Landless Workers Movement member, tills dirt with a young person on Dos Santos' land in Brazil.
Grappling With Growth
If the idea of growth itself is neutral, what can we build from the ashes of our individual lives and losses that strengthens the whole?
“The Procession Panel†in Bears Ears National Monument is 15 feet tall and more than 1,000 years old. Carved by Ancestral Puebloans, the petroglyphs act as maps and monuments for Indigenous peoples who are working to steward these lands once again.
Embracing the Inevitable End
The goal of this issue isn’t to send our dear readers into a tailspin. Instead, we’re taking a hopeful approach to our “Endings†issue. 
A pro-abortion activist, holding a green bandana aloft, and wearing a black hat and a handmade mask reading “legal abortion now†in Spanish, participates in a September 2021 protest in Lima, Peru.
The “Bodies†Issue
Instead of leaning into the fear of difference, the “Bodies†issue encourages us to consider what we must shift within ourselves to make space for true equity.