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Valerie Solanas
Valerie Jean Solanas was an American radical feminist known for her attempted assassination of artist Andy Warhol in 1968.
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culture · American radical feminist (1936–1988) · writer · playwright · film actor · director · women's rights activist · feminist · also Valerie Solanas, Valerie Jean Solanas, Solanas
Born 9 April 1936 · Died 25 April 1988 · Q11093
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Up Your Ass was re-published by writer and editor Leah Whitman-Salkin for MIT's Sternberg Press / Montana
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2018· 1 entry
The New York Times started a series of delayed obituaries of significant individuals whose importance the paper's obituary writers had not recognized at the time of their deaths
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2017· 5 entries
TV Fanatic: American Horror Story Season 7 Episode 7 Review: Valerie Solanas Died for Your Sins: Scumbag
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Yahoo: ‘American Horror Story’ Recap: ‘Valerie Solanas Died for Your Sins: Scumbag’ Introduces Another Cult
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PopSugar: American Horror Story: Meet Valerie Solanas, the Real-Life Figure Lena Dunham Is Playing
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BroadwayWorld: VIDEO: Sneak Peek - 'Valerie Solanas Died for Your Sins, Scumbag' Episode of AHS: CULT
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Rolling Stone: Valerie Solanas: 5 Things To Know About Lena Dunham’s ‘American Horror Story’ Character
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2008· 1 entry
Observer: Was Valerie Solanas The Genius Behind the Internet?
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2006· 1 entry
Solanas was featured in eleventh episode of the second season Adult Swim show The Venture Bros
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1999· 1 entry
And produced in 2000 by George Coates Performance Works in San Francisco
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1988· 1 entry
Died 1988-04-25.
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1985· 1 entry
Solanas eventually made her way to San Francisco, a city notorious for its homeless population
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1977· 1 entry
And the rights to SCUM Manifesto reverted to her, she asked Majority Report to typeset a new edition while she kept full editorial control
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1971· 1 entry
After threatening editors Barney Rosset and Fred Jordan of Grove Press
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1968· 2 entries
Solanas shot Warhol and art critic Mario Amaya at the Factory, Warhol's studio in Manhattan
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Solanas arrived at the Hotel Chelsea and asked for Girodias, who was unavailable
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1967· 2 entries
Solanas called artist Andy Warhol at his Manhattan studio, the Factory, and asked him to produce Up Your Ass
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Solanas self-published her best-known work, the SCUM Manifesto
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1965· 1 entry
Wrote two works: an autobiographical short story, "A Young Girl's Primer on How to Attain the Leisure Class", and a play, Up Your Ass, about a young prostitute
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1953· 1 entry
Solanas gave birth to a son fathered by a married sailor
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1936· 2 entries
In Ventnor City, New Jersey, to Louis Solanas and Dorothy Marie Biondo
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Born 1936-04-09.
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