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Valerie Solanas

ヴァレリー・ソラナス　/　ゔぁれりー・そらなす

American writer

April 9, 1936 – April 25, 1988　・　Ventnor City, New Jersey, United States

New Jersey
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playwright
film actor

My Take

I find Valerie Solanas one of the most uncomfortable figures to write about, and I think that discomfort is the point. Her shooting of Andy Warhol was an inexcusable act of violence, full stop. Yet the SCUM Manifesto refuses to disappear; scholars still argue over whether it is satire, rage, theory, or all three at once. To me she represents what happens when genuine literary talent collides with untreated suffering and a society with no place for either. I do not romanticize her, but I cannot dismiss her either. She remains a dark, unresolved question that feminism and pop art history are still forced to reckon with.

Overview

Valerie Jean Solanas (April 9, 1936 – April 25, 1988) was an American radical feminist known for the attempted assassination of artist Andy Warhol in 1968. Solanas appeared in the Warhol film I, a Man (1967) and self-published the SCUM Manifesto, a potentially satirical pamphlet calling for the extinction of men.

Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

1. Profile

Name (English): Valerie Solanas
Name (Japanese): ヴァレリー・ソラナス
Reading: ゔぁれりー・そらなす
Born: April 9, 1936 – April 25, 1988
Zodiac / Chinese zodiac: Aries / Rat
Origin: Ventnor City, New Jersey, United States
Blood type: Private
Height: Private
Agency: Private
Occupation: writer / playwright / film actor / director / women's rights activist

2. Background

Elementary school: Private
Junior high: Private
High school: Private
University: University of Minnesota

3. Relationships

Spouse: Private
Children: Private
Parents: Private
Siblings: Private

4. Personality

Motto

Private

5. Works & records

Category	Title	Role	Year
Notable work	SCUM Manifesto	—
Notable work	Up Your Ass	—

6. Links

Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A1%E3%83%AC%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%82%BD%E3%83%A9%E3%83%8A%E3%82%B9

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