The Selkie | Features

Becoming My Own B.F.F. by Chetna Mehta

Jul 18, 2018 | Features

Content warning: nudity Giving away my power: It is an insatiable habit to look to other people, things, achievements, and circumstances to affirm our worth and goodness. For me, I felt a gaping hole whenever I put an expectation in the hands of my friends,...

Interview: Chuck Mullin

Jul 2, 2018 | Features, Interview

With over sixty-seven thousand followers on Facebook, it’s hardly an exaggeration to say that Chuck Mullin’s quirky pigeon comics are beloved by the masses. Chuck uses drawings of pigeons as projections of herself to depict what it’s like to live with mental illness....

Of Ink, Honey and Mud with Pooka Machine

Jun 29, 2018 | Features

Content warning: nudity Pooka Machine is a Cuban-American tattoo artist working from Ocho Placas Tattoo Company in Miami and the author of Of Honey and Mud (2015) a book of pressed botanical drawings and paintings. Taking her inspiration from her deep love of...

Interview: Shantanu Duttagupta

Jun 22, 2018 | Features, Interview

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Interview: Shantanu Duttagupta by Sonali Misra [/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”7455″ img_size=”large” add_caption=”yes” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text] My eyes rove over...

Interview: Tricia Elliott

Jun 13, 2018 | Features, Interview

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Interview: Tricia Elliott by Lis Mesa [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text] Tricia Elliott is an emerging writer who lives in a yurt in Alaska with her husband, two girls (ages seven and nine) and three dogs. She is an odd combination...

The Importance of Representation by Vivian Rosas

Jun 6, 2018 | Features

Growing up as a brown girl in a predominantly white community, I inevitably became quite whitewashed. I didn’t really have many role models in pop culture or art that looked like me, so I gravitated towards white role models. When I started making art, these...