Grief, depression, anxiety, and trauma affect many of us, yet finding help on a barrier island like Galveston can feel daunting. Culture Clash Magazine interviewed local advocates and healers—including volunteers from Hike for Hope, a pranic healer who is a retired nurse, and the Family Service Center—to build a comprehensive resource guide for island residents.

It was the second week of my junior year and my English teacher had assigned us to define our identity. I like to think I have everything figured out, but wrapping my big personality into a legible sentence was daunting. My name is Moya Joyce Hudson and I’m a white 15-year-old girl from eastern Texas. Both of my parents work their 9 to 5 jobs while I pursue a successful high school career in a comfortable lifestyle. I come back to school with plenty of summer vacation tales f

At first glance, Kai Syng Tan’s colorful tapestry Magic Carpet (2017) is an explosion of colors, patterns, and motifs that draws you into a meandering labyrinth of designs. Your eyes wander from the woven daguerreotype portrait of mathematician Ada Lovelace to a river of text that flows throughout the tapestry. Large written words (like “chimera,” “toes,” and “making”) in shades of purple and pink interpose parts of a scribbled poem (“I run and run and let out an earth-shatte

I know my brain isn’t normal. Do I think I’m neurodivergent? No. But whatever’s going on up there isn’t programmed like the “average bear.” Some shit is wired like a drunk hillbilly that gets the job done. When I was a kid, they told my mom I was crazy smart, but once 3rd grade hit, I was held back. Can I do math? Nope. I still count on my fingers and use a tip calculator everywhere. Hence, the whole holding-me-back thing in school. But I could rip through Stephen King’s IT b

EARLY CHILDHOOD RESOURCES: EARLY CHILDHOOD INTERVENTION Early Childhood Intervention (ECI) is a statewide program within the Texas Health and Human Services Commission for families with children birth up to age 3, with developmental delays, disabilities or certain medical diagnoses that may impact development. ECI services support families as they learn how to help their children grow and learn. ECI offers free screenings and provides services to children 0-3 www.hhs.texas.g

My friend encouraged me to write an article for this issue on neurodiversity and what Galveston is doing for this community, and my first thought was “not enough” I say this as a fellow neurodivergent of the ADHD flavor and as a working mental health professional in this community. To start, I have a not-so-clinical definition of what it means to be a neurodivergent and why it appears that diagnoses of ADHD, autism and the like are on the rise. Were not meant to be put in the

We all need money to live - a fact of our society for which I have an unending amount of disdain. We are told we have ‘freedom’ with the underlying message of “work or die.” Finding a job that pays a living wage is difficult already, but for autistic individuals it is a waking nightmare. “Autism unemployment was approximately 85% in 2021, and research shows Autistic individuals face higher unemployment rates and social isolation than other disabilities.”1 85% of all diagnosed