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EVERYTHING I NEVER WANTED TO KNOW confronts two hated subjects in America: sex offenders and women’s bodies.

The first section explores the national sex offender registry via intimate, local, and national perspectives, each drawing on the other to echolocate not solutions but a voice willing to complicate our ideas of justice and defend every human's right to be treated like a member of the community. The second section shifts focus to the female body flickering between vulnerability and autonomy. Autobiographical narratives come in contact with extended riffs on Nike at Samothrace, the Frozen Charlotte doll, the Nylon Riots, and everyday acts of resistance that amplify the tensions between individual and collective experience.

Cumulatively, EVERYTHING I NEVER WANTED TO KNOW is a soft manifesto on sexuality, gender, whiteness, and violence.

CITY OF INCURABLE WOMEN pictures the complex lives of the 19th century women, diagnosed as suffering from hysteria, who were hospitalized at the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris. Incorporating a broad range of materials, Larson layers archival imagery with her own photographs and texts, speculating through the documented accounts of the women’s illness. Larson imagines the women as a collective, making a claim for their shared knowledge and the pleasures and risks of escape. Embracing photography’s capacity to feel, CITY OF INCURABLE WOMEN sees these women as unruly spirits that haunt the present, mining the radical possibilities of empathy and resistance.

Christine Hume’s fifth book is EVERYTHING I NEVER WANTED TO KNOW (Ohio State University Press, 21st Century Essays Series), an essay collection that Publishers Weekly describes it as a “dauntless and harrowing indictment of patriarchal violence.” Hume is also the author of a lyric portrait of girlhood, SATURATION PROJECT (Solid Objects, 2021), which The New York Times says, “arrives with the force of a hurricane,” as well as three collections of poetry and several chapbooks. Recent prose appears in Architecture and Culture, The Boston Review, Conjunctions, Disabilities Studies Quarterly, The Feminist Review, Harper’s, _and the most recent issue of _The Hopkins Review features a folio on walking that she guest edited with Anna Maria Hong. _ _Since 2001, she has been faculty in the Creative Writing program at Eastern Michigan University.

Laura Larson is an artist and writer based in Columbus, OH. She's exhibited her work extensively, at such venues as Bronx Museum of the Arts, Centre Pompidou, Columbus Museum of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and Wexner Center for the Arts. She has published two books: HIDDEN MOTHER (Saint Lucy Books, 2017), which was shortlisted for the Aperture-Paris Photo First Photo Book Prize; and CITY OF INCURABLE WOMEN (Saint Lucy Books, 2022). Larson was awarded a 2023 Guggenheim Fellowship in Photography.