To mark the paperback edition of this book SCUM Manifesto, along with all our feminist reading, is 50% off on our site until June 6th. The competition will finish Monday 6th June, 4pm GMT and winners will be picked at random. To win this bundle, all you need to do is to share the podcast on Twitter mentioning with the hashtag #ScumRevisited, or reblog the podcast on Tumblr using the hashtag #ScumRevisited.

She tweets are launching our SCUM Revisited podcast with a competition where you could win a limited edition Rosa Luxemburg tote bag containing SCUM Manifesto, Dialectic of SexAND some special SCUM badges emblazoned with three of Solanas' key demands, ‘Overthrow the government’, ‘Eliminate the money system’ and, of course, ‘Destroy the male sex.’ She tweets Manifesto voice: Sam McBean, academic and feminist and queer critic. They tweet Mayer is author of Political Animals: The New Feminist Cinema, poet and a member of queer feminist curators Club des Femmes. Ray Filar is a writer, editor and performance artist. Juliet Jacques is the author of Trans: A Memoirand a PhD student in Creative and Critical Writing at University of Sussex. To mark the new paperback edition of this book, SCUM Manifesto, along with all our feminist reading, is 50% off on our site until June 6th. Taking a historical view on its problematic elements, they discuss the text's violence and gender and biological essentialism in light of feminist and queer discourses since it's first publication - as well as Solanas' visions of work and automation, and why the text still thrills today. Juliet Jacques and Ray Filar join Sophie Mayer to discuss the treatise from critical and contemporary perspectives. Today, the controversial tract has a complex relationship with contemporary landscapes of feminism and gender politics. Originally self-published in 1968, Valerie Solanas' incendiary SCUM Manifesto called for a Society for Cutting Up Men and declared war on capitalism and patriarchy. “Women are not supposed to say violent things about men - it's supposed to be the other way round.” - Ray Filar I think that's something that's disappeared from a lot of radical writing - that refusal to collaborate with a system that you find abhorrent.” - Juliet Jacques

It's the classic radical or ‘extremist’ argument that suggests that a reformist approach to a system is the worst to take because it upholds it.

“Solanas suggests that civil disobedience is more or less the most useless thing you can do. Blog post SCUM Manifesto Revisited: The Verso Podcast with Juliet Jacques, Ray Filar and Sophie Mayer

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