Unhampered by propriety, niceness, discretion, public opinion, morals’, the respect of assholes, always funky, dirty, low-down SCUM gets around. Humor such as this is a muscle, a weapon It was the truth, and the truth is so absurd it’s painful.” Michelle Tea
The truth of the world as seen though Valerie’s eyes is patently absurd, a cosmic joke. To see the SCUM Manifesto’s humor, to let it crack you up page after page, is not to read it as a joke. This is an update of the essential AK Press edition, with a new foreword. Shifting fluidly between the worlds of satire and straightforward critique, this classic is a call to actiona radical feminist vision for a different world. The Xenofeminist Manifesto by Laboria Cuboniks £7.First circulated on the streets of Greenwich Village in 1967, the SCUM Manifesto is a searing indictment of patriarchal culture in all its forms.Great Goddesses by Nikita Gill £12.99 Add to cart.This Is Not A Drill: An Extinction Rebellion Handbook £7.99 Add to cart.Economics For The Many edited by John McDonnell £9.99 Add to cart.This edition includes an incisive introduction by acclaimed scholar Avital Ronell. In fact, the work has indisputable prescience, not only as a radical feminist analysis light-years ahead of its time, predicting artificial insemination, ATMs, and a feminist uprising against under-representation in the arts, but also as a stunning testament to the rage of an abused and destitute woman. Valerie Solanas, the woman who shot Andy Warhol, self-published this work just before her rampage against the king of Pop Art made her a household name and resulted in her confinement to a mental institution.īut the Manifesto, for all its vitriol, is impossible to dismiss as just the rantings of a lesbian lunatic. SCUM Manifesto was considered one of the most outrageous, violent and certifiably crazy tracts when it first appeared in 1968. 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.
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