Valerie Solanas: The Defiant Life of the Woman Who Wrote SCUM (42 page)

Valerie smiles as she enters the New York Police Department building after shooting Andy Warhol and Mario Amaya. (Photo: Frank Russo / Getty Images.)

Valerie is held behind bars on June 3, 1968. (Photo Jerry Haynes / New York Daily News.)

Radical feminist Ti-Grace Atkinson giving a talk in 1971. (Photo: Bill Sanders.)

Radical feminist Roxanne Dunbar (later Dunbar-Ortiz) upon her graduation from her graduate program at the University of California, Los Angeles, 1967. (Photo courtesy of Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz.)

Florynce “Flo” Kennedy, famed civil rights attorney, served as Valerie’s lawyer immediately after the Warhol shootings. (Photo courtesy of Ti-Grace Atkinson.)

Various editions of
SCUM Manifesto
: 1968 (left), 1971 (center), and 2004 (right).

Valerie marked her own graffiti on the 1971 copy of
SCUM Manifesto
held by the New York Public Library, calling Vivian Gornick a “flea” and saying that Maurice Girodias’s version of her text was “full of sabotaging typos.”

Valerie self-published this correct version of
SCUM Manifesto
in 1977, distributing it via mail and through local bookstores in the East Village. (Photo courtesy of The Dobkin Collection.)

An advertisement placed in the Village Voice by Valerie Solanas on April 27, 1967. (First published in the
Village Voice
, a Village Voice Media publication.)

Valerie printed this advertisement for her 1977
SCUM Manifest
o in the May 28-June 10, 1977 issue of the feminist newsletter,
Majority Report
. (Photo courtesy of Redstockings Women’s Liberation Archives for Action.)