![]() ![]() However, Warhol refused to pay for the play or admit to any wrongdoing. She actually believed that he had stolen her play and was refusing to pay up for it – which was not an entirely outlandish thought, given that Warhol’s whole brand was built on reproducing things that he didn’t initially create. Valerie, rightly so, demanded that he find the play or provide her with financial compensation for the lost work. In fact, he did nothing with the play and claimed that he had lost it. Andy Warhol and The Shooting:ĭuring the early 1960s, Valerie wrote her satirical feminist play, Up Your Ass, and managed to get famed artist Andy Warhol to agree to produce it. ![]() After learning of her life events and the abuse she experienced, we can begin to understand perhaps why Valerie wrote what she did in SCUM, and perhaps why she was ‘radical’ in her feminist ideology.īut as we mentioned in part one, her writings were relatively unheard of until she shot Andy Warhol. In part one of ‘Who was Valerie Solonas?’, we discussed Valerie’s early life and looked into her most notable work, the SCUM Manifesto. Trigger warning: this article refers to sexual violence and abuse. ![]() This essay is part of a wider series of articles called ‘Who is She?’ where we explore women who have been famously vilified or misunderstood in wider culture throughout history and modern society. ![]()
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