She sold copies in leftist bookstores and on the streets of Greenwich Village for $1 ($2 if the buyer was a man). On the subject of reproduction, she wrote: “We should produce only whole, complete beings, not physical defects or deficiencies, including emotional deficiencies, such as maleness.” 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 destroy the male sex. Its opening line is at once absurd and a call to arms for the coalition she was forming, the Society for Cutting Up Men: The manifesto, self-published in 1967, reads as satire, though Solanas defended it as serious. Solanas was a radical feminist (though she would say she loathed most feminists), a pioneering queer theorist (at least according to some) and the author of “ SCUM Manifesto,” in which she argued for the wholesale extermination of men.
The incident reduced her to a tabloid headline, but also drew attention to her writing, which is still read in some women’s and gender studies courses today. What happened next came to define her life and legacy: She fired at Warhol, nearly killing him. On June 3, 1968, Valerie Solanas walked into Andy Warhol’s studio, the Factory, with a gun and a plan to enact vengeance. This month we’re adding the stories of important L.G.B.T.Q. If you wish to access information but do not want to take the risk of being exposed to potentially triggering and/or traumatising content, please do not hesitate to get in touch, we will be happy to assist you as far as we are able.Overlooked is a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in The Times. Also be aware that some of the materials contain sexually explicit content and/or depictions and descriptions of physical and psychological abuse, sexual violence, etc.
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Originally published in 1968 this edition undated, probably late 1980s or early 1990s.Ĭontent and Trigger Warning: Most materials in our collections offer awesome and inspiring content, but you may encounter historical materials which are not anarchist/left-libertarian. From the collections of the Sparrows' Nest Library and Archive.
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