Opening credits of SCUM Manifesto.
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turies” 4, SCUM identifies the revolt of women rising up, the front of an opposition to patriarchy. Christiane Rochefort also insists in her preface to the 1971 French edition: “There is point when one has to get the knives out. […] This is when one understands that some-thing is wrong. Not before” 5. Valerie Solanas’s words are sharpened like blades, they cut within the heart of domination, opposing a fighting rhetoric to that of the oppressors.
The name of the collective under which Carole Roussopoulos and Delphine Seyrig signed the videotape SCUM Manifesto — Les
4 Vivian Gornick, “Introduction” (1970), in Valerie Solanas, SCUM Manifesto, Paris, Olympia, 1971, p. 17.
5 Christiane Rochefort, “Définition de l’opprimé”, presentation for Valerie Solanas, SCUM Manifesto, op. cit., p. 7
Opening credits of SCUM Manifesto.