Disclaimer: this was recorded a few weeks ago so we were maybe slightly flip about COVID-19. Patrick and Robin are in high spirits because they finished their qualifying exams and she finalized her dissertation topic. Then we talk about the uncomparable Valerie Solanas and The SCUM Manifesto, and how her persona is performance. Then we discuss Andrea Long Chu's Females and it gets tense. Finally, we ask the important questions, like if Valerie Solanas would watch Glee.

Works mentioned:

Chu, Andrea L. females. Verso, London, 2019.

Solanas, Valerie. SCUM Manifesto. Verso, London, 2016.

Warner, Sara. "Scummy Acts: Valerie Solonas's Theater of the Ludicrous." in Acts of Gaiety: LGBT Performance and the Politics of Pleasure. University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, 2012, 31-71