the inland empire collective is a non-profit media community for young local writers to create and get paid for it – in their hometown. through sponsorship and promotions we will be able to fund writers per story, offer scholarships and writing classes but, most importantly,
Children who grow up in hoarded homes carry deep wounds in every area of development but are under-researched, under-supported and misunderstood. The secrecy that binds the parents, binds the children too. Survivors of these homes say literature had a major impact on their resilience and
Jules Kutner faced a sudden loss of income as a result of coronavirus campus closures in March 2020. A graduate student and researcher studying Child and Adolescent Development at San Francisco State University, Kutner was furloughed from her full-time position as an administrative assistant in the counseling office. With less money coming in she started to worry about
For years, as he was growing up in Oakland’s Eastside, self-labeled urban mycologist "Michael" of Myco.Oakland would take trips with his family to the ancestral home of his father in Oaxaca where the cultural acceptance of psychedelic psilocybin mushrooms is embedded — quite literally — in