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SCUM Manifesto is a radical feminist manifesto by Valerie Solanas, published in 1967. It argues that men have ruined the world, and that it is up to women to fix it. To achieve this goal, it suggests the formation of SCUM, an organization dedicated to overthrowing society and eliminating the male sex.
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.
The vision of Valerie Solanas stems from a single central fact of her existence: she is a woman. More than that, she is American, more than that, she is a writer, more than that, she is urban and/or homosexual, or a beggar, or thirty. xv. xvi SCUM MANIFESTO.
Valerie Solanas in the offices of The Village Voice in 1967, the year she published “SCUM Manifesto,” which was, in part, a call to arms for the coalition she was forming, the Society for...
Valerie Solanas. 7 books162 followers. Valerie Jean Solanas was an American radical feminist writer best known for shooting the artist Andy Warhol in 1968. She wrote the SCUM Manifesto, an essay on patriarchal culture advocating the creation of an all-female society.
According to Breanne Fahs' Valerie Solanas: The Defiant Life of the Woman Who Wrote SCUM (and Shot Andy Warhol), Solanas was a smart, funny child. She learned to play piano at age 7, and...
In the SCUM Manifesto, Solanas calls for women to commit gendercide against men to build a feminist utopia. Solanas rejects separatism because it cedes the world to men, instead arguing that women must use violence to reclaim and change the world. Solanas thus sees violence as a world-making project.