Description
Conceived by the non-profit organisation RAKONTO (and Nadine Janssens) in the wake of the audio documentary about Valérie Solanas, ‘SCUM is fun’, it reflects on the fate of this unclassifiable text and author and seeks to give voice to what both still have to say to us. it is also in this context that the biographical publication on Valérie Solanas was published, which can be discovered here.
Graphic design: Pierre Geurts and Antoine Lantair, NNstudio
SCUM Manifesto is a feminist manifesto written, self-published and distributed by street vending from October 1967 onwards by New Yorker Valerie Solanas. Initially overlooked, it was published in August 1968 by Maurice Girodias for Olympia Press in the United States, after its author suddenly rose to fame following her attempted assassination of Andy Warhol. Although the work is sometimes presented as a manifestation of radical feminist paranoia (the manifesto calls for women’s rebellion and the eradication of men), its violent parodic tone is analysed as a reverse satire of Freudian theories of femininity.
This is the first French-language edition of the manifesto, which we produced on the same scale as the 1968 original – except that it was printed on our Risograph with Fluopink ink.
Printing: Risograph GR3770, NNstudio
Binding: Florence Monfort
8 pages
Format: 42 × 29.7 cm
Binding: thread
Print run: 100 copies
ISBN: 978-2-931237-07-6
Legal deposit: D/2025/14941/05