Valerie Solanas
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Valerie Jean Solanas (April 9, 1936 – April 25, 1988) was an American feminist and writer best known for writing the SCUM Manifesto, which she self-published in 1967 and plotting to murder Andy Warhol in 1968. Solanas had a turbulent childhood.
She said her father sexually assaulted her, and that she and her mother and stepfather had a tumultuous relationship following her parents' separation.
She was supposed to live with her grandparents but she died after being physically abused by her alcoholic grandfather.
In the 1950s, Solanas came out as a lesbian.
Solanas, a psychology degree from the University of Maryland, College Park, migrated to Berkeley, California, where she began writing her most popular book, the SCUM Manifesto, in which women were encouraged to "overthrowrow the government, eliminate the money system, institute complete automation, and eliminate the male sex."
She befriended pop star Andy Warhol and begged him to produce her play Up Your Assemblies.
She gave him her script, which she later accused him of losing or stealing.
Warhol recruited I, a Man, after Solanas requested financial compensation for the missing script.
The SCUM Manifesto was released by Solanas in 1967.
Maurice Girodias, the owner of Olympia Press, agreed to publish Solanas' future works, but she understood the deal meant Girodias would own her writing.
Solanas acquired a rifle in early 1968, convicing Girodias and Warhol of conspiring to rob her work. She went to Warhol's Factory in June 3, 1968, where she discovered Warhol.
She fired at Warhol three times, with the first two shots missing and the third wounded Warhol.
She fired art critic Mario Amaya and attempted to kill Warhol's boss, Fred Hughes, but the rifle was jammed.
Solanas was then surrendered to the police.
She was charged with attempted murder, assault, and unlawful possession of a firearm.
She was diagnosed with schizophrenia and pled guilty to "reckless assault with intention to hurt" on a three-year prison term, which also included visits to a psychiatric hospital.
She continued to promote the SCUM Manifesto after her release.
She died of pneumonia in 1988 in San Francisco.
Early life
Solanas was born in 1936 in Ventnor City, New Jersey, to Louis Solanas and Dorothy Marie Biondo. Her father was a bartender and her mother was a dental assistant. Judith Arlene Solanas Martinez, her younger sister, was born in California. Her father was born in Montreal to parents who immigrated from Spain, and her mother, an Italian-American of Genoan and Sicilian descent, was born in Philadelphia.
Solanas said that her father sexually assaulted her. When she was young, her parents divorced and her mother remarried shortly thereafter. Solanas resentment against her stepfather and began protesting against her mother, making her a truant. She wrote insults for children to use on one another for one dollar as a child. She beat up a girl in high school who was bothering a younger child as well as a nun.
In 1949, her mother ordered her to be raised by her grandparents as a result of her rebellious behavior. Solanas said that her grandfather, a alcoholic who beat her often, was a violent alcoholic who beat her often. When she was 15, she left her grandparents and became homeless. In 1953, she gave birth to a son who was fathered by a married sailor. David (later David Blackwell by adoption) was taken from Solanas and never saw him again.
Despite this, she graduated from high school on time and earned a degree in psychology from the University of Maryland, College Park, where she was a member of the Psi Chi Honor Society. She hosted a call-in radio show on campus at the University of Maryland, where she gave tips on how to beat guys. Despite the 1950s' conservative cultural climate, she was a lesbian.
She attended the University of Minnesota's Graduate School of Psychology, where she worked in the animal research laboratory before moving to Berkeley for a few courses. It was during this period that she first began writing the SCUM Manifesto.
Later life
Solanas may have intended to write an autobiography of a famous author. In a 1977 Village Voice interview, she announced a book with her name as the subject. The book, which was possibly intended as a parody, was supposed to address the "conspiracy" that resulted in her detention. Solanas said in a corrective 1977 Village Voice interview that "the book will not be autobiographical other than a small amount" and that it will be about many aspects, including proof of claims in the manifesto, and that it would "deal intensively with the subject of bullshit," but not parody.
Solanas was "apparently homeless," "continued to promote her political convictions and the SCUM Manifesto," and "strongly promoted" her latest Manifesto version in New York City in the mid-1970s, according to Heller.
Ultra Violet tracked Solanas in northern California and interviewed her over the phone a decade later. According to Ultra Violet, Solanas was once known as Onz Loh. Solanas said that the August 1968 edition of the manifesto had several mistakes, unlike her own printed version of October 1967, and that the book had not been well-received. Warhol's death was unknown until she was alerted by Violet, she said.