SCUM MANIFESTO contexts 24

was held at the Mutualité in Paris; and it is also in this specific mili-tant context that the making of SCUM Manifesto is rooted. Later, in 1978, Carole Roussopoulos co-directed a video explicitly address-ing the subject — Le Viol : Anne, Corinne, Annie, Brigitte, Colette, Jo-siane, Monique et les autres... (Rape: Anne, Corinne, Annie, Brigitte, Co-lette, Josiane, Monique and the others…) — in which Annie Cohen reads out passages from a text resonating with that of Valerie Solanas:

“What kind of state of war is this, where we must brush against walls, look down, spend our lives enduring the fear of re-turning home, going out, walking or wandering? What kind of state of war is this, where we must barricade ourselves, at any age, behind three door locks and a peephole? What kind