Valerie Solanas

I, a Man

I, a Man
I A Man, Part 7 (youtube.com) Valerie Solanas (the woman who shot Andy Warhol) star’s in I A Man with Tom Baker. Explaining how she digs the chicks.

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.

Lake of the Woods (Wikipedia) Lake of the Woods (French: Lac des Bois; Ojibwe: Pikwedina Sagainan, lit. ‘“inland lake of the sand hills”’) is a lake occupying parts of the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Manitoba and the U.S. state of Minnesota. Lake of the Woods is over 70 miles (110 km) long and wide, containing more than 14,552 islands and 65,000 miles (105,000 km) of shoreline. It is fed by the Rainy River, Shoal Lake, Kakagi Lake and other smaller rivers. The lake drains into the Winnipeg River and then into Lake Winnipeg. Ultimately, its outflow goes north through the Nelson River to Hudson Bay.

In 1968, they rallied in support of Valerie Solanas, the tormented feminist who shot Andy Warhol.
“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 eliminate the male sex. Valerie Solanas, SCUM Manifesto

Valerie Solanas (Wikipedia) Valerie Jean Solanas (April 9, 1936 – April 25, 1988) was an American radical feminist known for the SCUM Manifesto, which she self-published in 1967, and for her attempt to murder artist Andy Warhol in 1968.