Outlaw Magazine
Volume 1, Number 1, Spring 2021 Donation $10.00 or whatever
Special issue #1
The Mythology of Pussy and Dick
Toward healthy male/female relations
and all gender loving relations
Page two, inside, back page of cover page 1
The Outlaw Poet
Master poet, playwright, essayist, publisher, editor, educator, producer, philosopher Marvin X
photo Kamau Amen Ra (RIP)
Marvin X at the University of Chicago, Sun Ra Conference on Afro-futurism, 2015
photo Burrell Sunrise
About the original pamphlet MOPD
In 2009 the poet published an 18 page pamphlet entitled Mythology of Pussy and Dick. In truth, the original title was Mythology of Pussy, but after women said they were not interested in pussy but dick, the poet addressed both gender needs, although this did not satisfy some feminists, mostly the college students at Howard University and elsewhere. But even in the dirty south at the Jackson Mississippi/Grambling football game, some threw the pamphlet on the ground, although even the ticket takers came to the poet for a copy after seeing students entering with a copy.
When I departed the dirty south and arrived at Howard University, I was blessed to address the classes of Dr. Greg Carr and Dr Tony Medina, two of the greatest professors at Howard. I spent a went between their classes discussing my MOPD pamphlet. In Dr. Medina's class, a female student broke down in tears, confession that she thought she was cute until she got to Howard to discover there were 14 other girls cute as she was. Yes, women are 14 to 1 man at Howard and the girls have concluded most shall never marry. Meanwhile, after I concluded my lecture in Dr. Carr's class, one female came up to me and whispered in my ear, "Dr. X, I want to tell you how we deal with our situation of 14 to 1. Dante think he's player but we playing him. We sisters get together and decide who's going to be with Dante on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, etc. We agree how we schedule Dante, he don't schedule us, so Dr. X, put this in your MOPD pamphlet. And so I did.
Marvin X as Street Hustler and teacher at his Academy of da Corner
The most dangerous classroom in the world, 14th and Broadway, downtown Oakland
Aside for being a poet, playwright, educator, planner, organizer, radical philosopher, Marvin X is the street hustler and teacher supreme. From San Francisco's Fisherman's wharf to Seattle's Pike Market, he made $400.00 per day selling the homeless paper @ $20.00 per copy although the paper sold for $1.00.
Some people said he didn't look homeless since he dressed in starched shits and jeans with a crease, and persons pointed out that he had more money in his hand than they had. In truth, Marvin only put twenty dollar bills in his hand as he hustled the homeless paper, so most people submitted to his psychological tricks. If you came up on him waving a twenty dollar bill or two, you would not give him a quarter. He was an arrogant hustler. When people gave him a quarter, he threw it at them after they passed him, even though at the end of the night he would have at least $20.00 in quarters and change. He would never put a plastic cup in his hand as he didn't have time for change He clocked his hustle by the minute and would usually have made $200.00 after an hour. In two hours he had his daily quota of $400.00 and made his way home or to the dope man in the projects at the end of the line at Fisherman's Wharf. Most of the time he would stop by the Safeway to buy a stake for his late night meal when he would be hungry, especially when the dope was gone. Often when his friends accompanied him on his hustle, they were astounded he would stop at Safeway to spend money on food that could go on dope, but he ignored them, got him a nice stake, then proceeded to the dope projects to cope, then made his way to his North Beach hotel room to go crazy. At one time his cousin shared his North Beach SRO room, and observed the poet go beyond insanity as his cousin noted. when the poet descended into deep paranoia, putting the mattress up to the door and worse insanities too gross to mention.
And when the North Beach dope was exhausted, Union Square hotels were available after the bars closed at 2AM and the guests returned to their hotel rooms. So he would meet the returning guests at their Union Square hotels as they exited their limousines. One unforgettable night a drunk white man exited his limo and the poet approached him for a donation. The drunk man looked at the poet dope fiend hustler and noticed his starched shirt. In his drunkenness, the white man said, "You got on a starched shirt. I'm not giving you no donation, better go home and change that shirt. If you come back I might give you a donation."
At the 1984 Democratic Convention, the San Francisco Chronicle called him the "Button King" after he made $2,000 per day selling political buttons at the Market and Powell Cable Car turnaround. When he went to the Republican Convention in Dallas, a police officer asked him where he was from? When he replied he was from Dallas, the officer
Toward healthy male/female relations
"Slavery destroyed family relations, but national liberation will restore our family love. Alas, families rule the world! Have you noticed? Strong families, strong nation. I thought I married a woman until I understood I married into a family, and in polygamy, multiple families. It wasn't about me and my wife, but me, her and the families I was connected with, not only by marriage but by blood when our children were conceived. And even when my marriages ended, my extended family relations persisted decades later because of blood. When we realize the power of families, we shall be on the road to true liberation beyond individualistic concerns but communally. And when our communal relations expand to economic endeavors, the disunity show is over and we shall dance to true freedom and liberation on the highest level. Broken and toxic family relations are the residue of slavery, of unresolved trauma and grief that must be healed before forward motion can happen. Long live black families!"
--Marvin X, Publisher
Tentative Contents
Myth defined
Highlights of the original essay
MeToo and Harvey Weinstein
Is Harvey Everyman?
Comment by Dr. Nathan Hare
Don't say pussy
For the women
For the men
You don't know me
After the nut then what?
Parable of a real woman
Parable of woman in the box
Review of Bathroom Graffiti Queen
Dialogue on prostitution should be legalized
Love letter to gay and lesbian youth
Fable of the rooster and the hen
Parable of the pit bull
Parable of why I gotta be a bitch 'cause I don't wanna give you my pussy
Review of Baby Boy
Parable of the baby carriage
Parable of the gangsta
Review of Fences
Parable of a square bitch
Dialogue on bitch
Monday love poem
Parable of bitch led niggas
Gender studies
Revolutionary porn
Woman stoned and the death of patriarchy
Creativity and sexuality
Review of Miles Davis film, birth of the cool
How to love a thinking woman
Never love a poet
Parable of old, sick and crazy
Woman on cell phone
Pimping ain't easy
Confession of a rapist
Confession of an ex-wife beater
Domestic violence, Pauline conversion
Pussy blinded me
When lovers talk
Parable of the heart
O.G. Marvin X, Outlaw Publisher
photo Ancestor Kamau Amen Ra
Note from the Publisher
Preface
The original 18 page pamphlet was expanded into a 400 page book but brothers in the hood appreciated the 18 page pamphlet and preferred a magazine version of MOPD rather than a book since literacy in the hood is often problematic. Brothers said they would support a 28 page magazine version of MOPD, so I've decided to accommodate them since I can print thousands of magazines but only a few hundred books. If you would like to donate to Outlaw Magazine, I will set up a GoFundMe account ASAP for your donations of any amount. We plan to have the first issue out by April 1, 2021.
At the request of Guest Editor Dr. Ayodele Nzinga, we are delaying her issue of Black Bird Press News and Review dealing with the Black Arts Movement Business District, CDC and BAMFEST 2021. Her edition of Black Bird Press News and Review will appear in the Summer Quarter.
The first issue of OUTLAW Magazine will feature a condensed version of The Mythology of Pussy and Dick by Marvin X, his Magnum Opus on Male/Female relations. In 2009 he released an 18 page pamphlet entitled The Mythology of Pussy and Dick. It was first distributed on the streets of Oakland, especially at his Academy of Da Corner, 14th and Broadway. Thousands of copies were sold and/or given away. People would steal the pamphlet from each other or borrow it and refuse to return it.
It was a healing document, beyond sexual healing. It healed psychologically as bibliotherapy. It taught men and women they did not own each others bodies, especially their sexual organs. For persons addicted to the patriarchal mentality, this message was revolutionary. It brought sanity and balance to their mental equilibrium, once they accepted the fact that they did not own that they thought they owned. A young lady was overjoyed to learn she owned her pussy and nobody else. She thought a man or another woman owned her pussy. A young man said after reading the MOPD, he could now go live his life since he discovered he could not ever own a woman's body. Mothers and father's bought the pamphlet for their sons and daughters. One mother said she put it on her children's beds to make sure they got it. Some parents read it with their children. A 16 year old female read it but wished she had read it when she was eight years old. An elder told the author, "If we had read this when we were teenagers, we would have saved women a lot of hell!"
The 28 page full color magazine will feature prose and poetry on theme of male/female relations
globally since toxic relationships are a global issue that are the cause of partner violence, rape, honor killings and a pandemic of femicide. It will contribute to the discussion of gender identity, prostitution, sexual discrimination, and related issues in the METOO era of Harvey Weinstein, Jeffery Epstein, Bill Cosby and a host of other miscreants, including the author, a self confessed ex-wife
beater.
Sincerely,
Marvin X
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