SCUM Manifesto

Authors: Valerie Solanas, Avital Ronell
Publisher: Verso
2004

 

“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

“Sometimes you have to scream to be heard.” —Avital Ronell