Carina Costom tells human stories from the inside out — where theory meets dirt, motherhood meets myth, and community is the only compass that still works.

She works in the messy space between anthropology and art, where truth isn’t extracted but shared. Her upcoming project, 100 Women – 100 Oceans: Notes from the Parenting Underbelly, will surface in 2026. It’s part storytelling experiment, part field study — a deep dive into rural motherhood, disability, neurodivergence, and ecological identity. Essays, illustrations, and conversations stitched together like a quilt of lived experience. One hundred women. One hundred tides. A reckoning told in saltwater and skin.

From her base in Nelson, British Columbia, Carina is shaping the project as an illustrated manuscript that might grow — into a mural, a digital commons, maybe a movement. The work’s purpose is simple and impossible: to make space for the things mothers whisper when no one’s listening.

She studied Film and Communications at McGill University and is finishing a Liberal Arts Diploma in Creative Writing and Cultural Anthropology. Her toolkit includes design, trauma-informed facilitation, and the kind of listening that can turn silence into story.

The long game? To build something that lasts — a social-creative enterprise where art pays forward. Profits feeding back into community-led projects, public anthropology exhibits, parenting supports, and neurodivergent-driven initiatives.

​Carina lives in the mountains with her son and a dog who insists on daily adventures, rain or shine. Reach her if you need a collaborator who can hold both chaos and grace — and tell a damn good story about it.

Guiding Spirit

“If you have come here to help me, you are wasting your time.
But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine,
then let us work together.”
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— Dr. Lilla Watson, Aboriginal Rights Movement, 1970s (Australia)

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