Editing Valerie Solanas (section)

== Legacy ==
=== Popular culture ===
Composer [[Pauline Oliveros]] released "To Valerie Solanas and [[Marilyn Monroe]] in Recognition of Their Desperation" in 1970. In the work, Oliveros seeks to explore how, "Both women seemed to be desperate and caught in the traps of inequality: Monroe needed to be recognized for her talent as an actress. Solanas wished to be supported for her own creative work."<ref>{{cite web |first=Pauline |last=Oliveros |title=To Valerie Solanas and Marilyn Monroe in Recognition of Their Desperation (1970) |url=http://www.deeplistening.org/site/content/valerie-solanas-and-marilyn-monroe-recognition-their-desperation-1970-0 |publisher=Deep Listening |date=September 1970 |access-date=November 27, 2011 |archive-date=August 13, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170813231042/http://www.deeplistening.org/site/content/valerie-solanas-and-marilyn-monroe-recognition-their-desperation-1970-0 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Pauline Oliveros |publisher=Roaratorio |url=http://roaratorio.com/21.html |access-date=November 27, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120426005046/http://roaratorio.com/21.html |archive-date=April 26, 2012}}</ref>

Actress [[Lili Taylor]] played Solanas in the film ''[[I Shot Andy Warhol]]'' (1996), which focused on Solanas's assassination attempt on Warhol (played by [[Jared Harris]]). Taylor won Special Recognition for Outstanding Performance at the [[Sundance Film Festival]] for her role.<ref>{{cite web |last=Rich |first=B. Ruby |date=1996 |title=I Shot Andy Warhol |work=Archives |publisher=[[Sundance Institute]] |url=http://history.sundance.org/films/1347 |access-date=November 27, 2011}}</ref> The film's director, [[Mary Harron]], requested permission to use songs by [[The Velvet Underground]] but was denied by [[Lou Reed]], who feared that Solanas would be glorified in the film. Six years before the film's release, Reed and [[John Cale]] included a song about Solanas, "I Believe", on their [[concept album]] about Warhol, ''[[Songs for Drella]]'' (1990). In "I Believe", Reed sings, "I believe life's serious enough for retribution&nbsp;... I believe being sick is no excuse. And I believe I would've pulled the switch on her myself." Reed believed Solanas was to blame for Warhol's death from a [[gallbladder]] infection twenty years after she shot him.<ref>{{cite web |first=Michael |last=Schaub |date=November 2003 |title=The 'Idiot Madness' of Valerie Solanis |work=[[Bookslut]] |url=http://www.bookslut.com/propaganda/2003_11_000965.php |access-date=November 27, 2011 |archive-date=August 19, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130819164243/http://www.bookslut.com/propaganda/2003_11_000965.php |url-status=dead}}</ref>

''Up Your Ass'' was rediscovered in 1999 and produced in 2000 by [[George Coates|George Coates Performance Works]] in San Francisco. The copy Warhol had lost was found in a trunk of lighting equipment owned by Billy Name. Coates learned about the rediscovered manuscript while at an exhibition at [[The Andy Warhol Museum]] marking the 30th anniversary of the shooting. Coates turned the piece into a musical with an all-female cast. Coates consulted with Solanas' sister, Judith, while writing the piece, and sought to create a "very funny satirist" out of Solanas, not just showing her as Warhol's attempted assassin.<ref name="Coburn" /><ref name="Carr">{{cite web |first=C. |last=Carr |title=SCUM Goddess |url=http://www.villagevoice.com/arts/scum-goddess-7141341 |work=The Village Voice |date=July 22, 2003 |access-date=August 13, 2015}}</ref>

Solanas' life has inspired three plays. ''Valerie Shoots Andy'' (2001), by Carson Kreitzer, starred two actors playing a younger (Heather Grayson) and an older (Lynne McCollough) Solanas.<ref>{{Cite news |first=Neil |last=Genzlinger |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/01/theater/theater-review-writer-one-day-would-be-killer-next-reliving-warhol-shooting.html |title=Theater Review: A Writer One Day, a Would-be Killer the Next – Reliving the Warhol Shooting |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=March 1, 2001 |access-date=November 27, 2011}}</ref> ''Tragedy in Nine Lives'' (2003), by Karen Houppert, examined the encounter between Solanas and Warhol as a [[Greek tragedy]] and starred [[Juliana Francis]] as Solanas.<ref name="Carr" /> In 2011, ''Pop!'', a musical by Maggie-Kate Coleman and Anna K. Jacobs, focused mainly on Warhol (played by Tom Story). Rachel Zampelli played Solanas and sang "Big Gun", described as the "evening's strongest number" by ''[[The Washington Post]]''.<ref>{{Cite news |first=Peter |last=Marks |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/theater-review-pop-paints-bold-portrait-of-warhol-and-his-inner-circle/2011/07/19/gIQAjEgaOI_story.html |title=Theater review: 'Pop!' paints bold portrait of Warhol and his inner circle |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |publisher=Nash Holdings |location=Washington, DC |date=July 19, 2011 |access-date=November 27, 2011}}</ref>

Swedish author [[Sara Stridsberg]] wrote a [[semi-fiction]]al novel about Solanas called {{lang|de|Drömfakulteten}} ('The Dream Faculty'), published in 2006. The book's narrator visits Solanas toward the end of her life at the Bristol Hotel. Stridsberg was awarded the [[Nordic Council's Literature Prize]] for the book.<ref>{{cite web |date=2007 |title=Sara Stridsberg wins the Literature Prize |work=News |publisher=Norden |url=http://www.norden.org/en/news-and-events/news/sara-stridsberg-wins-the-literature-prize |access-date=November 27, 2011 |archive-date=May 7, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140507090527/http://www.norden.org/en/news-and-events/news/sara-stridsberg-wins-the-literature-prize |url-status=dead}}</ref> The novel was later translated into and published in English under the title ''Valerie, or, The Faculty of Dreams: A Novel'' in 2019.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374151911 |title=Valerie &#124; Sara Stridsberg &#124; Macmillan |publisher=Us.macmillan.com |date=2019 |access-date=August 7, 2019}}</ref>

In 2006 Solanas was featured in eleventh episode of the second season [[Adult Swim]] show [[The Venture Bros.|The Venture Bros]] as part of a group called The Groovy Gang. The group was a parody of the [[Scooby-Doo|Scooby Gang]] from [[Scooby-Doo]] and was made up of parodies of Solanas ([[Velma Dinkley|Velma]]), [[Ted Bundy]] ([[Fred Jones (Scooby-Doo)|Fred]]), [[David Berkowitz]] ([[Shaggy Rogers|Shaggy]]), [[Patty Hearst]] ([[Daphne Blake|Daphne]]), and Groovy ([[Scooby-Doo (character)|Scooby]]). In the episode she is voiced by [[Joanna P. Adler|Joanna Adler]]. Most of her lines in the episode are quotes from the SCUM Manifesto.

Solanas was featured in a 2017 episode of the [[FX (TV channel)|FX]] series ''[[American Horror Story: Cult]]'', "[[Valerie Solanas Died for Your Sins: Scumbag]]". She was played by [[Lena Dunham]].<ref>{{cite web |first=Laura |last=Bradley |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2017/08/american-horror-story-cult-spoilers |title=How ''American Horror Story: Cult'' Will Change the ''A.H.S.'' Game |work=[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]] |publisher=[[Condé Nast]] |location=New York |date=August 29, 2017 |access-date=September 6, 2017}}</ref> The episode portrayed Solanas as the instigator of most of the [[Zodiac Killer]] murders.

=== Influence and analysis ===
Author James Martin Harding explained that, by declaring herself independent from Warhol, after her arrest she "aligned herself with the historical [[avant-garde]]'s rejection of the traditional structures of bourgeois theater"<ref>{{harvp|Harding|2010|p=153}}.</ref> and that her anti-patriarchal "militant hostility&nbsp;... pushed the avant-garde in radically new directions".<ref>{{harvp|Harding|2010|pp=29, 30, 31, 33, 153}}.</ref> Harding believed that Solanas' assassination attempt on Warhol was its own theatrical performance.<ref>{{harvp|Harding|2010|loc=chap.&nbsp;6, esp. pp.&nbsp;151–158; and see pp. 21, 24, 26, 29, 63 & 178}}.</ref> At the shooting, she left on a table at the Factory a paper bag containing a gun, her address book, and a [[sanitary napkin]].<ref>{{harvp|Harding|2010|p=151}}.</ref> Harding stated that leaving behind the sanitary napkin was part of the performance,<ref>{{harvp|Harding|2010|pp=151–153}}.</ref> and called "attention to basic feminine experiences that were {{sic|publi|cally}} taboo and tacitly elided within avant-garde circles".<ref>{{harvp|Harding|2010|pp=152, 153}}.</ref>

Feminist philosopher [[Avital Ronell]] compared Solanas to an array of people: [[John and Lorena Bobbitt|Lorena Bobbitt]], a "girl [[Friedrich Nietzsche|Nietzsche]]", [[Medusa]], the [[Unabomber]], and [[Medea]].<ref>{{harvp|Ronell|2004}}.</ref> Ronell believed that Solanas was threatened by the hyper-feminine women of the Factory that Warhol liked and felt lonely because of the rejection she felt due to her own [[butch and femme|butch]] [[androgyny]]. She believed Solanas was ahead of her time, living in a period before feminist and lesbian activists such as the [[Guerrilla Girls]] and the [[Lesbian Avengers]].<ref name="Nickels2005D" />

Solanas has also been credited with instigating [[radical feminism]].<ref name="Third" /> [[Catherine Lord]] wrote that "the feminist movement would not have happened without Valerie Solanas".<ref name="Lord" /> Lord believed that the reissuing of the ''SCUM Manifesto'' and the disowning of Solanas by "women's liberation politicos" triggered a wave of radical feminist publications. According to [[Vivian Gornick]], many of the [[women's liberation]] activists who initially distanced themselves from Solanas changed their minds a year later, developing the first wave of radical feminism.<ref name="Lord" /> At the same time, perceptions of Warhol were transformed from largely nonpolitical into political martyrdom because the motive for the shooting was political, according to Harding and [[Victor Bockris]].<ref>{{harvp|Harding|2010|p=172}}, citing: {{cite book |last=Bockris |first=Victor |title=The Life and Death of Andy Warhol |page=236}}</ref> Solanas' idiosyncratic views on gender are a focus of [[Andrea Long Chu|Andrea Long Chu's]] 2019 book, [[Females (Chu book)|''Females'']].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Lorusso |first1=Melissa |title=In 'Females,' The State Is Less a Biological Condition Than an Existential One |url=https://www.npr.org/2019/10/30/774365692/in-females-the-state-is-less-a-biological-condition-than-an-existential-one |website=NPR |access-date=June 27, 2020 |date=October 30, 2019}}</ref>

Fahs describes Solanas as a contradiction that "alienates her from the feminist movement", arguing that Solanas never wanted to be "in movement" but nevertheless fractured the feminist movement by provoking NOW members to disagree about her case. Many contradictions are seen in Solanas' lifestyle as a lesbian who sexually serviced men, her claim to be [[asexuality|asexual]], a rejection of [[queer culture]], and a non-interest in working with others despite a dependency on others.<ref name="Fahs2008" /> Fahs also brings into question the contradictory stories of Solanas' life. She is described as a victim, a rebel, and a desperate loner, yet her cousin says she worked as a [[waitress]] in her late 20s and 30s, not primarily as a prostitute, and friend Geoffrey LaGear said she had a "groovy childhood". Solanas also kept in touch with her father throughout her life, despite claiming that he sexually abused her. Fahs believes that Solanas embraced these contradictions as a key part of her identity.<ref name="Fahs2008" />

In 2018, ''[[The New York Times]]'' started a series of delayed [[obituary|obituaries]] of significant individuals whose importance the paper's obituary writers had not recognized at the time of their deaths. In June 2020, they started a series of obituaries on LGBTQ individuals, and on June 26, they profiled Solanas.<ref name=":0">{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/26/obituaries/valerie-solanas-overlooked.html |title=Overlooked No More: Valerie Solanas, Radical Feminist Who Shot Andy Warhol |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=June 26, 2020 |last=Wertheim |first=Bonnie |quote=Overlooked is a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in ''The Times''. This month we’re adding the stories of important L.G.B.T.Q. figures.}}</ref>