Up Your Ass

Or From the Cradle to the Boat Or The Big Suck Or Up from the Slime

Valerie Solanas

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Sternberg Press
23 August 2022

History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -; Art & design styles: c 1900 to c 1960

Series: Sternberg Press / Montana

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.

Valerie Solanas's legendary play explodes social and sexual mores and the hypocritical, patriarchal culture that produces.

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.

By: Valerie Solanas
Imprint: Sternberg Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 180mm, Width: 115mm, Spine: 8mm
Weight: 85g
ISBN: 9783956796050
ISBN 10: 3956796055
Series: Sternberg Press / Montana
Pages: 104
Publication Date: 23 August 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Valerie Solanas (1936-1988) was a writer and artist. She completed SCUM Manifesto in 1967 and her play Up Your Ass in 1965; the latter was never published in her lifetime. As a result of her attempt to assassinate Andy Warhol in 1968, Solanas was involuntarily committed to psychiatric hospitalization. She was institutionalized a number of times in the years that followed, always living radically on the fringes of society.

Reviews for Up Your Ass: Or From the Cradle to the Boat Or The Big Suck Or Up from the Slime

"""The manuscript’s épater la bourgeoisie sensibility, shot through with clichés about race and sexuality, places it squarely in the twentieth century. But the text also outlines a space of genderqueer possibility that wouldn’t be theorized for years, advocates for sex workers’ rights, and sketches the dark future of reproductive technology through allusions to biological determinism."" —Wendy Vogel, Artforum"