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.

Overlooked No More: Valerie Solanas, Radical Feminist Who Shot Andy Warhol (nytimes.com) She made daring arguments in “SCUM Manifesto,” her case for a world without men. But her legacy as a writer and thinker was overshadowed by one violent act.

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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

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.