SCUM Manifesto

The SCUM Manifesto is a document of profound vulnerability, written in a voice of profound empowerment. It s a brutal call to arms, written by a woman in a world of hurt. This tension between powerlessness and power makes it an enduring piece of writing. Never have the personal and the political been so mercilessly zipped together, like little steel teeth.' –Claire Dederer, Nation 'Solanas is as relevant today as she was in the 1960s, because nothing much has changed for women.' –Julie Bindel, Spectator 'Articulate, angry and funny.' –Guardian Review "You either happen to think this is a work of unadulterated genius, or you dismiss it as the ravings of a loony psycho-bitch, not understanding that this is exactly what makes it so compelling and so charged with insight." – Suzanne Moore, New Statesman "Solanas is as relevant today as she was in the 1960s, because nothing much has changed for women." – Julie Bindel, Spectator "Articulate, angry and funny." – Guardian "Valerie Solanas wrote a very angry and very precise portrait of what she considered the male to be: something between a human and an ape; an unresponsive blob only concerned with physical sensation and without the capacity for empathy or self-knowledge or intimacy, and at the same time full of hatred and jealously and shame and guilt. Her description is beautiful and on some level, I think, entirely accurate." – Nick Cave "A girl Nietzsche." – Avital Ronell