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AN ONLINE COMPANION ISSUE TO PCC INSCAPE CHAPBOOK No.6 - SPRING 2022
A Collaboration with the PCC C.O.R.E. Program


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Meet the Editorial Staff

Web Companion Issue, Healing Arts Chapbook No.6 -    ​Consuelo Rios and Jasmin Lopez


ABOUT THE ISSUE
This web-companion features additional artwork and writing not included in its print companion, PCC Inscape's Chapbook No.6 "Healing Arts" project. This chapbook was conceived and edited by students in Pasadena City College's C.O.R.E. Program  (Community Overcoming Recidivism through Education) to amplify the voices and experiences of incarcerated, formerly incarcerated, and system impacted students as well as others in our community and beyond.  The work in the print issue and web companion is raw, vulnerable, and startling with themes of oppression, freedom, and ultimately self-love and acceptance.  No doubt readers will come away changed and likely moved into allyship and action. 

On behalf of our student editorial team - Jessica Leeth Young, Jasmin Lopez, Jocelyn Chau-Goh, Anthony Mondragon, and Consuelo Rios,  you're invited to experience this online companion issue. 

We also hope you'll join Pasadena City College students and community members on Wednesday, April 20, 2022 at the CORE-sponsored Healing Arts day from 1-5pm at the Jameson Amphitheater in celebration of the power of Art and Writing to Heal Trauma, which will feature poet and activist Iris DeAnde, who will read from her work and facilitate and Open Mic. We are lucky to feature Iris DeAnde's work in this online companion issue as well.   

You can click the button bar below to learn more about CORE at PCC.
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ONLINE CONTRIBUTORS


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Consuelo Rios
    Let's Heal
Jasmin Lopez     The Art of Healing

Carlos Gonzalez    Live Life
Laura Hayes  Choreography - 16 Counts to Community

Robert Villanueva     My Story
Oscar Diaz    Between the Sun and Earth
G. Martinez   Photo Series Lost Souls and En Las Calles
Shyann Ridgley     One Day
Angela Gonzalez   Cactus Cover Art  


Healing Arts Day Featured Guest Poet and Activist Iris DeAnda

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About Iris De Anda
Iris De Anda is a writer, activist, and practitioner of the healing arts. A womyn of color of Mexican and Salvadorean descent. A native of Los Angeles. She believes in the power of spoken word, poetry, storytelling, and dreams.
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Las Tierras cerca del Cielo

Ladybug comes through in phases
Allows access to spaces 
Includes community in open hills
The Flat Top is unity

Dispensa madre tierra
Coma la nueva vanguardia 
Explota tus venas
Remember the land of ancients
The memory of Tongva relations

Despierta porque el planeta
No tiene tu plata, la neta
Selling sunsets to the masses
Working classes provide
Upper class dismisses the most shifts
The seeds that plant the verses of truth
There is no new earth
Cause the curse is reversed

Spit the music of medicine
Give this generation their spin
Following the waves of old school
Blood spilling
Induced by the choice of choosing
Capitalist fools be slippin
Sippin on some fine imperial 
Sleeping on the ones that are the real tho
Skip through the tasks of stories
Emerald minds
City of Quartz recording the message

The vessel is constant 
No trespassing through the ancestors medium
Deliver a sign to the new emporium
Delirium
I see you then as I see you now
Devour the spirit which brings it forth somehow​


Allow for the rise of sixth sun 
Respecting the one
People of the sol
Coming forth with deliverance
Verdad, over the new precedence
La Vida repite lo que en tus sueños dijiste
Existe, no miento 
Como yo siento todo lo que quieres ver
Tu ser una flor en el vidrio de ayer
Recuerda tu ser, viniste a vivir verdad
Es la realidad

Reality speaks to humanity
Love more be free
Release the limits of the roots
Semillas the seed
The mud
The monarch
The orange tree
The hummingbird
The suckle
The evening glow
Our spirit
The kiss

Experiment of blue
Sinking the growing of memoria
Rain grounds the land
Seeps crimson musk over sunrise
You've witnessed in dreams
Cempasuchitl whispering
Bulbs of mixed feelings
Of rising tomorrows
Of flowing lakes into palm trees
This is our Los Angeles
Our skin pressed upon a grass
Pinned over masked tents
Throw a pebble into water
Watch the ripple of rough yesterdays & blooming manañas
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Print Issue


Preview some of the contents of the print issue by clicking on underlined pieces. You can pick up your print issue at Pasadena City College C245 of visit our submittable page to request a FREE copy.

Edgar Archila     Incarceration Has Affected Me
Jonathan Avila    Incarceration Has Directly Affected My Loved Ones
J. Chau     Belong
Chavez     Before I Went to Prison
Dan Fitzgerald     
Three Poems
Areeanna Flores     Reflections of an Incarcerated Mother
Anthony Francoso    Love Letter
Christian Garibay   My Name is Christian Garibay
Adolfo Angel Garcia    Familyarity
Natalia Garcia     An Elegy for the Tia I Never Knew
Angela Gonzalez    I Know I'll Be Ok
Jazz    The Art of Healing 
James M.    I Can Remember
David Moore     The Effects of Incarceration and the Process of Healing
​Anthony Mondragon    To Whom it May Concern
Justin Perez     Only Hope
Royce Provost   She Echoes
Consuelo Rios     Hurt As A Child, Healing As An Adult
Jose Rivas     All You Have to Do . . .
Mr. Tezozomoc     Tezozomac
Gabriel Villalobos     Untitled
Damien Williams     The Stories Are True
Jessica Leeth Young     Dear Juvenile Hall - and - The Woman I Was 

About the PCC CORE Program


The Community Overcoming Recividism through Education (CORE) program and student organization, and the Formerly Incarcerated Radical Scholars Team (FIRST) club, both focus on building community on and off PCC’s campus, that will serve as a means of social, emotional, and academic support for students impacted by incarceration. FIRST board members Laura E. Hayes and Gabriela Vaquerano-Solorzano fostered a strong foundation for these programs to flourish by inspiring students, faculty, and staff with their non-hierarchical philosophy and holistic outlook. After two years of program success, the advocates and student leaders extended the outreach of FIRST by establishing CORE with a commitment to liberation and a commitment to healing people suffering the lasting impacts of incarceration. 

Some of the support services that CORE provides are assistance with college enrollment, transfer empowerment, and community leadership opportunities. The program has an established success rate. Previous scholars have gone on to UC Berkeley, UCLA, and Pepperdine, among other four-year institutions. 

The Healing Arts Initiative has been student-centered and led in efforts to foster collective liberation through creative expressions. This Inscape Special Publishing Project will amplify untold stories from currently incarcerated, formerly incarcerated, and system impacted people. Commitment to this program outlines abolitionist efforts in cultivating safe communities and empowering environments in the academic setting. Find out more information on our program by visiting pasadena.edu/CORE or follow us on Instagram: @corepcc
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  • Online Issue No. 10
  • About
    • PCC Inscape Instagram
  • SUBMISSIONS
  • ISSUE ARCHIVE
    • Online Issue No.9
    • 2016 Fall Online
    • 2016 Sppring Online
    • 2017 Fall Online
    • 2017 Print Issue - Manifesto TOC
    • 2018 Fall Print Issue - Frankenstein TOC
    • 2018 FA Frankenstein Companion
    • 2018 Summer Online
    • 2018 Fall Folio - VOTE
    • 2018 Fall Spirituality
    • 2019 Celebrating Dia De Los Muertos
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    • 2019 Fall Folio -- Moon Moon
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