Valerie Solanas's legendary play, Up Your Ass--never published during her lifetime but full of her signature irreverence and wit, incisiveness, and camp--explodes social and sexual mores and the hypocritical, patriarchal culture that produces them. The play, the full title of which is Up Your Ass Or From the Cradle to the Boat Or The Big Suck Or Up from the Slime, marches out a cast of screwy stereotypes: the unknowing john, the frothy career girl, the boring male narcissist, two catty drag queens, the sex-depraved housewife, and a pair of racialized pickup artists, among others. At the center is protagonist Bongi Perez--a thinly veiled Solanas--a sardonic, gender-bending hustler who escorts us through the back alleys of her street life. The fictionalized predecessor to SCUM Manifesto, the play shares the same grand, subversive, implicative language, equally spitting and winking, embracing the margins, the scum, and selling a trick along the way.
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Valerie Solanas's play Up Your Ass—never published during her lifetime but full of her signature irreverence and wit, incisiveness, and camp—explodes social and sexual mores and the hypocritical, patriarchal culture that produces them. @SternbergPress https://t.co/9xEcqW1mks
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Up Your Ass is Valerie Solanas's rarely published play. Explodes social and sexual mores and the hypocritical, patriarchal culture. Marches out a cast of screwy stereotypes: the boring male narcissist, the sex-depraved housewife, a pair of racialized pickup artists, among others. https://t.co/ccpGWjAnuM
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The play that got Andy Warhol shot, Valerie Solanas’ UP YOUR ASS is now back in print. This legendary play is accompanied by the short story A Young Girl's Primer on How to Attain to the Leisure Class. Check out both titles at the link below https://t.co/W6Lwbbr0gJ https://t.co/T1zmSuhK8o