Deemed a paranoid schizophrenic by the state, Solanas was immortalized in the 1996 film I Shot Andy Warhol. Valerie Solanas was a radical feminist playwright and social propagandist who was arrested in 1968 after her attempted assassination of Andy Warhol. You've got to go through a lot of sex to get to anti-sex, and SCUM's been through it all, and they're now ready for a new show they want to crawl out from under the dock, move, take off, sink out." -Valerie Solanas "Unhampered by propriety, niceness, discretion, public opinion, 'morals', the respect of assholes, always funky, dirty, low-down SCUM gets around. It was the truth, and the truth is so absurd it's painful." -Michelle Tea Humor such as this is a muscle, a weapon. The truth of the world as seen though Valerie's eyes is patently absurd, a cosmic joke. "To see the SCUM Manifesto's humor, to let it crack you up page after page, is not to read it as a joke. This is an update of the essential AK Press edition, with a new foreword. Shifting fluidly between the worlds of satire and straightforward critique, this classic is a call to action-a radical feminist vision for a different world. In this edition, philosopher Avital Ronell’s introduction reconsiders the evocative exuberance of this infamous text.First circulated on the streets of Greenwich Village in 1967, the SCUM Manifesto is a searing indictment of patriarchal culture in all its forms. In fact, the work has proved prescient, not only as a radical feminist analysis light years ahead of its time-predicting artificial insemination, ATMs, a feminist uprising against underrepresentation in the arts-but also as a stunning testament to the rage of an abused and destitute woman. But for all its vitriol, it is impossible to dismiss as the mere rantings of a lesbian lunatic. Valerie Solanas, the woman who shot Andy Warhol, self-published the book just before she became a notorious household name and was confined to a mental institution. Outrageous and violent, SCUM Manifesto was widely lambasted when it first appeared in 1968. “Life in this society being, at best, an utter bore and no aspect of society being at all relevant to women, there remains to civic-minded, responsible, thrill-seeking females only to overthrow the government, eliminate the money system, institute complete automation and destroy the male sex.”
Classic radical feminist statement from the woman who shot Andy Warhol
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