#valerie solanas

[lestrawberryswitchblade]

I feel like a lot of people still don’t know this even though Valerie Solanas has become kind of an icon but she shot Andy Warhol because he stole her play, which she considered her masterpiece, and the Warhol estate still owned the play until 2014. He also only paid her 25 bucks to appear in a movie. Not saying he deserved to get shot but her grievances against him were legitimate. He was an asshole who exploited other artists.

[aidzpanwchuj]

~ Valerie Solanas "Scum Manifesto"

[over-eden]

man hater (2019) page 3 // full zine here

[litemisstep]

[themaniacgirl]

the ultimate femcel

[lesbianlenses]

[lapdanseuse]

[thefrenchrad]

When in Amsterdam … 😇

[sunpfeiffer]

“On June 3, 1968, Solanas went to The Factory, shot Warhol and art critic Mario Amaya, and attempted to shoot Warhol’s manager Fred Hughes. She then turned herself in to the police. Solanas was charged with attempted murder, assault and illegal possession of a firearm. She was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and pleaded guilty to ‘reckless assault with intent to harm,’ serving a three-year prison sentence, including treatment in a psychiatric hospital. After her release, she continued to promote the SCUM Manifesto. She died in 1988 of pneumonia in San Francisco.” (Wikipedia)

[vojkovrucina]

valerie solanas was right and we let her down

[lesbianlenses]

[haggishlyhagging]

Some of the most intense expressions of rage at males' limitations had been written in 1967 in Valerie Solanis' "SCUM (Society for Cutting Up Men) Manifesto." (Solanis was not an activist in the organized feminist movement. She had worked for, and later shot, pop artist Andy Warhol.)

Being an incomplete female, the male spends his life attempting to complete himself, to become female. He attempts to do this by constantly seeking out, fraternizing with and trying to live through and fuse with the female...

In the 1970s, other writers followed in Solanis' lead. Particularly close in wording were the women of CLIT (Collection of Lesbian International Terrors), who published three groups of articles.

In CLIT Statement #2, published in 1974, they wrote, "males aren't human."

...It is impossible for women and men to become more and more alike because all men are terminally male which means jealous hole/woman killer.

The truth of the matter, which all patriarchies since their conception have tried to suppress, is that women are not only superiojr sexually to men, but also intellectually and emotionally and every other way except for physical strength.

Others, such as lesbian writer Rita Laporte, used gentler terms but saw men as limited.

Only by banding together and following a leader can men find strength, for they are emotionally and spiritually weaker, more dependent and sheep-like, than women. This animal-like urge to band into groups, while giving the individual members a feeling of potency, also necessitates fighting to defend the prowess of their leader against other, exactly similar groups...

Women, on the other hand, are determined by no such group pull.

Women who wish to cooperate with other women do so on the human, not the animal, level. Not being pushed by instinct to fall into gangs behind a more powerful woman, they are free to join together intelligently and they are free to leave the group by intelligent choice when they feel the group is up to no good...

This makes it impossible for vast hordes of women to be led into activities destructive to the human race. At the same time it makes agreement harder to come by.

LaPorte is speaking very generally. There is surely less group violence by women than by men, but one could not say that women never join or stay in fascist or violent groups.

-Carol Anne Douglas, Love and Politics: Radical Feminist and Lesbian Theories

[nozomi-grenade]

Some time ago, I lent a boy (who knows why I made that choice lol) The SCUM Manifesto by Solanas, a reading that deeply shook and radicalized me. He was disturbed by it, considering Solanas' arguments absurd and transphobic. It's clear he completely missed the point of the reading, so I didn't worry about it much. However, recently, I saw on Twitter that some feminists were labeling this work as transphobic. I identify with radical feminism but Im quite disturbed by this and would like to understand why such accusations? Any kind soul to enlighten me?"

[d0llpartssss]

Everyday I wake up a little mad Valerie Solanas' bullet didn't kill Warhol 😒

[victusinveritas]

[poison-doll]

BURN IT // CRUSH IT // HIDE IT

a few months ago i saw thou, and SLOWHOLE was one of the openers, and there was a, like, booth in the corner selling anarchist lit stuff, and before slowhole went on i was browsing, and i ended up buying a copy of the SCUM manifesto bc it was a dollar, and i'd been working the previous semester on a sort of critical memoir abt my journey into and back out of aggressive KAM shit & healing my trauma around masculinity both as it was inflicted on me while i was closeted & at the hands of cis men, largely bc of being married to a transmasculine person who also had a journey out of KAM-feminism to do ( p.s. it's cool to not be terrified of being even a little bit masculine bc you're worried about (being/seen as) The Predator Gender, rly helps w/dysphoria ). and obvs can't write about the failings of KAM-type feminism w/out talking about solanas. so i buy the lil yellow book, and SLOWHOLE goes on, and holy shit they fucking blew me away. absolutely destroyed me. i ended up going down to the merch table as soon as they got off stage, got their tape, got a shirt, whatever. but i was also feeling a lil cheeksy, so now i have this:

a copy of the manifesto signed by several members of SLOWHOLE.