Editor's Notes, as found in [Source]. --FH.
From the back cover of the Phoenix Press booklet:
"Valerie Solanas' SCUM Manifesto was written in 1967 and published in 1968, the year she shot and wounded Andy Warhol. The text used here is that of the 1983 edition of the Manifesto that was published by the Matriarchy Study Group."
This is the only copy of the SCUM Manifesto I've ever seen. This version was published by PHOENIX PRESS, presumably in the UK (price given as "75p"), though no contact information was provided. I have no idea what, if any, changes were made to the text. I tried to change nothing except change some obvious (to me) Anglicizations back to Americanisms (eg. empathise to empathize). The copyright is certainly retained by Valerie's estate. Seeing how it's a manifesto, and the Phoenix people certainly don't own it, I figured Valerie Solanas wouldn't mind my typing this all in and giving it away for free.
-- tomj@wps.com (Tom Jennings), Jan 19941996 note: Valerie Solanas died in San Francisco in 1988. There is a movie about her called I Shot Andy Warhol.
1997 note: Fixed some typos.
2000 note: All of you, please stop emailing me that Valerie died in 1988. By the way, there is a movie about her called I Shot Andy Warhol. Yes, you.
Thanks to Aaron Dallas for actual information. As is not surprising there is now substantial information on Valerie Solanas on the web. (There was none in 1994 when I put her Manifesto up.) Try http://www.bcn.net/~jpiazzo/scum.htm which contains a smart biography by Freddie Baer, or http://www.bcn.net/~jpiazzo/valbio.htm.
Please, I think my job is done here, no more updates please, even if it is to inform me that she died in 1988.
