Closing the Original Model. Carrying the Work Forward.
100 Women | 100 Oceans is changing shape.
SEPTEMBER 2026 UPDATE
After pursuing funding for the original interview-based project, I made the decision not to continue a model that depended on substantial unpaid labour or risked asking too much of the women contributing their stories. Instead, the project is evolving into a more sustainable, participant-led public archive.
Women are invited to contribute in their own way, choosing what they wish to share and how they wish to be represented. My role will shift toward careful stewardship, curation, and drawing together the themes that emerge. The heart of the project remains the same: making space for women’s relationships with the family ocean to be witnessed, gathered, and returned to the public in a meaningful form.
A heartfelt thank you to all those early adopters who showed interest in participating. If you feel called to share your a story your way, please send it in to [email protected].
100 Women | 100 Oceans is changing shape.
SEPTEMBER 2026 UPDATE
After pursuing funding for the original interview-based project, I made the decision not to continue a model that depended on substantial unpaid labour or risked asking too much of the women contributing their stories. Instead, the project is evolving into a more sustainable, participant-led public archive.
Women are invited to contribute in their own way, choosing what they wish to share and how they wish to be represented. My role will shift toward careful stewardship, curation, and drawing together the themes that emerge. The heart of the project remains the same: making space for women’s relationships with the family ocean to be witnessed, gathered, and returned to the public in a meaningful form.
A heartfelt thank you to all those early adopters who showed interest in participating. If you feel called to share your a story your way, please send it in to [email protected].
Hello Mountain and Valley Mamas,
What if someone finally asked what motherhood really feels like out here?
I’m collecting stories from rural mothers — the ones raising kids in the quiet, the chaos, and the wide-open in-between. Mothers navigating difference, disability, and exceptionality — the kind of path you don’t read about in glossy magazines. It’s the one I walk, too.
You don’t need to be a writer or an artist. You just need to be you. Talk it, sketch it, sing it, cry it, email it at midnight — whatever form your truth takes. Your pace. Your time.
Out here, there are hundreds of women juggling solo lives, shaky systems, and kids who rewrite every rule in the book. Their stories rarely get told. Yours matters.
Carina Costom
About Me
The Steps
Step 1: Reflect & Create
Create something —maybe a poem, an image, or a feeling turned into art.
Step 2: Share it here
Share it here. Entirely your choice.
RULE NUMBER ONE: There are no rules.
RULE NUMBER TWO: Ignore rule number one. Here's why.
MAKE PEACE
make peace
with all the women you once were.
lay flowers at their feet.
offer them incense and honey and forgiveness.
honor them
and give them your silence.
listen.
bless them
and let them be.
for they are the bones of the temple you
sit in now.
for they are the rivers of wisdom
leading you toward the sea.
I have been a thousand different women.
- Emory Hall
www.emoryhall.com
Sponsors
It is with deep appreciation and gratitude that I thank my generous arts grant writing mentor, Zaynab—performance poet, storyteller, and artist—for her unwavering encouragement and creative spark. I’m equally grateful to Jai Sequoia, whose clarity, skill, and patience continue to shape both print and web with care. And to Mackenzie—thank you for sponsoring the first round of outreach postcards with such generosity of spirit. This project is stronger because of your presence.
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