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Articles by Christine Hume
An exhibition on reproductive health raises urgent questions-and the spectre of self-censorship
The Chicago Museum of Contemporary Photography’s travelling exhibition Reproductive: Health, Fertility, Agency is at Vassar College’s Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center in upstate New York for election season and through the next US president’s inauguration. The show’s curatorial vision first materialised at Columbia College in 2021, Roe v. Wade’s last full year standing. Now, in the Dobbs v.
The Miscarriage Collages That Were Too Much for the Art World
American artist Joanne Leonard’s photo-collage series Journal of a Miscarriage is a talisman for our post-Roe times. Made in 1973, the same year as the landmark United States Supreme Court decision, its treatment of the messy unpredictability of pregnancy models resistance to the systemic erasure of women’s experiences.
Minute 9: Happening
By Christine Hume. Happening, directed by Audrey Diwan, co-written by Diwan and Marcia Romano, adapted from a book with the same title by Annie Ernaux, 2021 (France) 2022 (USA). They are smoking and chewing gum and talking about desire in each preceding scene, of which there are four, all saturated in visceral blue: a mood, a reflection, an evocation of sex, the hottest part of a flame. We are piecing it together, one fire at a time.
Walking America - writers in conversation
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Christine Hume’s Playlist for Her Book “Everything I Never Wanted to Know”
In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. Boyle, Dana Spiotta, Amy Bloom, Aimee Bender, Roxane Gay, and many others. Christine Hume’s Everything I Never Wanted to Know is both strongly personal and sociopolitical, a book as powerful as it is necessary.
EVERYTHING I NEVER WANTED TO KNOW
by Christine Hume ‧ A professor of English and creative writing reflects on sexual assault and female embodiment. Situated at the intersection of prose and poetry, Hume’s essay collection explores patriarchy’s ongoing war against girls and women. The author divides the book into two sections, the first of which deals with female physical and sexual vulnerability.
All the Women I Know (Sandra, Dani, Roma, Alex) by Christine Hume and Laura Larson
We are excited to publish the three winners of CRAFT’s inaugural Hybrid Writing Contest. We hope our readers will agree that these pieces exemplify the potential of form, particularly form that challenges normative ideas about genre, to open space for possibility and radical wonder.
Ransom Voice
The following is an excerpt from Saturation Project by Christine Hume (Solid Objects, 2021), published with permission of Solid Objects. Hum When I turned twelve, my family moved to the edge of state game land. I walked its paths or made my own while listening to the wind hushing treetops, my stride shushing ferns. As I walked, my throat emptied, and a buried sound forced its way out of my face.
Experimental Literature That Tests Family Bonds and Routines
The Shortlist Jan. 19, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET LAST ORGY OF THE DIVINE HERMIT By Mark Leyner 277 pp. Little, Brown. $27. The best way to start a review of a Leyner book is to list a few of its high-concept conceits.
9 Feminist Retellings of Mythology
If you enjoy reading Electric Literature, join our mailing list! We’ll send you the best of EL each week, and you’ll be the first to know about upcoming submissions periods and virtual events. Truth be told, I loathe re-imaginings of myths. The impulse feels reformist rather than revolutionary. I find these renderings on the whole stale and striving, hubristically clever, empty adaptations overly attached to their sources.
Halloween and Stranger Danger
Do you believe in the boogeyman? This is the pivotal question of the Halloween movie franchise. The tension around naming the movies’ antagonist foregrounds the problem of seeing him: “it” or “him,” “thing” or “human,” “The Shape” or “Michael Myers”? Even if you have never seen the original 1978 movie, you know the plot. On Halloween 1963, six-year-old Michael Myers kills his older sister after she has sex with her boyfriend.
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