#11

There are many reasons why now is a good moment to bring back the SCUM Manifesto, the wild-eyed treatise by Valerie Solanas, a lesbian drifter, psychotic and would-be writer who is best known for shooting Andy Warhol nearly to death in June 1968. The Manifesto is a text that tries to do many things – everything -- at once. It’s gleefully incoherent, crackling with the energy set up by its impossible, mutually contradictory demands. It’s a fierce call to arms for the destruction of the male sex; a manic re-imagining of the world economy, in which capitalism will be undone from within by women’s “unwork”; and a vision of the coming utopia

S.C.U.M. Manifesto