Valerie Solanas

I, a Man

Warhol gave Solanas a part in the film for $25 and as compensation for a script she had given to Warhol called Up Your Ass, which he had lost. Solanas later attempted to kill Warhol by shooting him.

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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.

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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.

birth

Valerie Solanas was born in 1936 in Ventnor City, New Jersey, to Louis Solanas and Dorothy Marie Biondo. Her father was a bartender and her mother a dental assistant.

death

On April 25, 1988, at the age of 52, Valerie Solanas died of pneumonia at the Bristol Hotel in the Tenderloin district of San Francisco.

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SCUM Manifesto

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Up Your Ass

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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

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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.