By Breanne Fahs
ISBN-10: 1558618481
ISBN-13: 9781558618480
Too drastic, too loopy, too "out there," too early, too overdue, too broken, too much—Valerie Solanas has been pushed aside yet by no means forgotten. She has turn into, unwittingly, a figurehead for women's unexpressed rage, and stands on the middle of many worlds. She inhabited Andy Warhol's manufacturing unit scene, circulated between feminists and the countercultural underground, charged males funds for dialog, despised "daddy's girls," and defined a imaginative and prescient for radical gender dystopia.
Known for taking pictures Andy Warhol in 1968 and for writing the polemical diatribe SCUM Manifesto, Solanas is likely one of the most famed ladies of her era. SCUM Manifesto—which expected ATMs, test-tube infants, the net, and synthetic insemination lengthy earlier than they existed—has offered extra copies, and has been translated into extra languages, than approximately all different feminist texts of its time.
Shockingly little paintings has interrogated Solanas's lifestyles. This e-book is the 1st biography approximately Solanas, together with unique interviews with family members, buddies (and enemies), and diverse residing Warhol affiliates. It unearths fantastic information about her existence: the kids approximately not anyone knew she had, her force for keep an eye on over her personal writing and copyright, and her elusive own relationships.
Valerie Solanas addresses how this period replaced the realm and depicts an iconic determine whose existence is instantly tragic and remarkable.
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It prefers the disagreeable to the agreeable, loves pain and its darker night despair, and wants to die in a catastrophe that will set back life to its beginnings and leave nothing of our house save its blackened foundations. —REBECCA WEST PREFACE We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us. . I think we understood this truth at one time, but we have forgotten it—that no gentleness can efface the marks of violence; only violence itself can destroy them.
Ultimately, she was either asked to leave the dorm, or requested permission to leave and took her own apartment. ”64 After she left the dorm and moved in with some classmates, problems continued. ”65 University officials frequently required that Valerie attend psychological counseling following these various incidents; at this, Valerie balked and rebelled. She responded with anger and on one occasion overturned a table during a counseling session. She frequently received disciplinary action and was once nearly expelled.
2 In her 1966 introduction to her play, Up Your Ass (which figured in her actions two years later, when she shot and nearly killed pop superstar Andy Warhol at his New York City “Factory”), she wrote: “I dedicate this play to ME a continuous source of strength and guidance, and without whose unflinching loyalty, devotion and faith this play would never have been written. additional acknowledgements: Myself-for proof-reading, editorial comment, helpful hints, criticism and suggestions and an exquisite job of typing.