Editing Valerie Solanas (section)

=== 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.