SCUM Manifesto

First circulated on the streets of Greenwich Village in 1967, the SCUM Manifesto is a searing indictment of patriarchal culture in all its forms. Shifting fluidly between the worlds of satire and straightforward critique, this classic is a call to action a radical feminist vision for a different world. This is an update of the essential AK Press edition, with a new foreword.

To see the SCUM Manifesto s humor, to let it crack you up page after page, is not to read it as a joke. It s not. The truth of the world as seen though Valerie s eyes is patently absurd, a cosmic joke. Humor such as this is a muscle, a weapon It was the truth, and the truth is so absurd it s painful. Michelle Tea

Unhampered by propriety, niceness, discretion, public opinion, morals , the respect of assholes, always funky, dirty, low-down SCUM gets around... You ve got to go through a lot of sex to get to anti-sex, and SCUM s been through it all, and they re now ready for a new show; they want to crawl out from under the dock, move, take off, sink out. Valerie Solanas

Valerie Solanas was a radical feminist playwright and social propagandist who was arrested in 1968 after her attempted assassination of Andy Warhol. Deemed a paranoid schizophrenic by the state, Solanas was immortalized in the 1996 film I Shot Andy Warhol.

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