The (dis)appearance of Up your ass: Valerie Solanas as abject revolutionary (umd.edu)
Through performative writing and using Cixous’ notion of écriture feminine, this piece explores how the archival and treatment of Valerie Solanas’ ‘lost’ manuscript Up Your Ass marks her as an abject body. Further, this piece critiques the treatment of Solanas’ works as typical of radical feminist activists.- Earth Abides (Wikipedia)
Earth Abides is a 1949 American post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by George R. Stewart. The novel tells the story of the fall of civilization from deadly disease and the emergence of a new culture with simpler tools. Set in the 1940s in Berkeley, California, the story is told by Isherwood Williams, who emerges from isolation in the mountains to find almost everyone dead.