The Woman Who Shot Andy Warhol - Valerie Solanas

The story of Valerie Solanas, who shot the famous artist Andy Warhol.

Music composed by Ryan Probert

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References:
Valerie Solanas: The Defiant Life of the Woman Who Scum (and Shot Andy Warhol) by Breanne Fahs
Holy Terror by Bob Colacello
Popism: The Warhol Sixties by Andy Warhol and Pat Hackett

Time Stamps:
0:00 - Intro
1:41 - Who is Valerie Solanas?
7:16 - Who is Andy Warhol?
12:19 - Ad Time
13:50 - Valerie Meets Andy Warhol
21:49 - Day of Shooting
25:43 - Aftermath
29:37 - Outro

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[joeimjoe]

Andy Warhol would record homeless people for content? He sounds like a youtuber

[shenwoohellbrawl]

I actually find it hilarious how condescending and petty everyone was toward each other throughout the whole story.

[BarkingShark]

The irony of him seemingly being creeped out by similar behaviors he once displayed is very thick

[TeamIzlude]

In an age of black and white morality, it's refreshing to hear a story where every character is a villain

[scottdelong]

Warhol was a vampire. You summed it up neatly when you said he took credit for other's work, used people up, then discarded them. His life, his art, are celebrations of banality.

[ckind]

"she lived the life of a starving artist while working on a play called 'Up Your Ass'"
What a fascinating sentence lol

[jahliafinney]

Introduced by an acquaintance THAT WANTED TO PUNISH HIM

Good lord this man's life

[joe]

People talk about how people nowadays are privileged, fragile, woke snowflakes. But when you consider the ammount of undiagnosed psychosis cases that plagued the mid-60s to early 80s, I say I prefer living in the current era

[preyslaydisplay]

moral of the story here is that pretentious art-world people are apparently as unbearable to each other as they are to the rest of us

[matthewcorridor]

17:27
Valerie: "schizo ranting about men"
Andy: "I like your funny words, magic lady"

[bmutante]

Sometimes there are stories where everyone is horrible and everybody suffers and in the end it was all pretty much for nothing...

[photobro]

Sweet Val. I bused tables as a kid, at a restaurant she'd hang out at. One night, she left a card on the table for me that read, "You have just insulted a woman - this card is treated with a chemical that will make your **** fall off" lol. Wish I still had it!

[GeahkBurchill]

I read _The SCUM Manifesto_ in the late 90s while I was living in a house with radicals of various stripes. The writing itself, _the craft_ of it, is okay. I never read _Up Yours, _ which she had polished a lot more, but parts of _The SCUM Manifesto_ already show a bit of her disorganized thinking, with non-sequitors and leaps in logic. It seems like another draft was needed. As the product of a specific point of view it was interesting.

I think she could have been an interesting scholar if her life had gone differently. Therapy and medication available today probably would have helped immensely. The book itself isn’t scholarly. It’s a collection of ideas based on anecdotes, filtered through a lens of anger.

Solanas would have loved Twitter. She was basically a _hot take_ dispenser, but her mental illness would have probably been reinforced there.

[cosmicheather]

both of these people would have loved social media

[Unquestionable]

Talk about being shaped by your upbringing. This woman was clearly absolutely completely and utterly demolished by the abuse she experienced growing up, that she managed to force her way into Warhol's life was probably the worst possible outcome.

[Redem]

The most surprising about this is hearing about 100$ tuition a year

[SpencerPaire]

I can see why they made a movie out of this. Warhol was a shallow POS who failed upwards in the art world, Val was a schizophrenic POS who literally tried to screw her way to the top. Each sound like the most insufferable kind of person imaginable, in freaky different ways. The irony of them clashing is stricking.

[eggs_]

“A dangerous cookie” is such a read. we need to bring that back

[TheStarBlack]

"Sure I'm a cop, here's my badge" is bloody hilarious!

[Nocturn]

I went to the Warhol museum in Pittsburg last summer during Anthrocon. How the hell did I hear nothing about him getting shot while I was there?