by Alicia | May 18, 2016 | Daily Dot, Writing
Like many millennials, Anna Drezen and Todd Dakotah Briscoe graduated from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts with big ambitions but no clear paths to stardom. So they did what many of us with dead-end day jobs do: They started a blog about their experiences working as...
by Alicia | Jul 28, 2015 | News, Writing
My roommate David is the kind of guy who becomes Tumblr famous. Not because he tries to do anything awesome, fancy, flashy or even relevant. He’s just cool, and he makes cool art without trying. He has a sense of humor that he inherited from his mom — it’s super dry,...
by Alicia | Jun 20, 2015 | Collaborative Essays
By Alicia Eler and Brannon Rockwell-CharlandNo: 32 Queer Networks Abstract Naming a Radical Queer Girl Tumblr Aesthetic focuses on Tumblr as a space of safety, creativity, self-expression, and escape for young queer women and women of color while considering...
by Alicia | Feb 16, 2015 | News, ReadWrite, Writing
Tumblr may soon have the Internet porn-blogging contest all wrapped up, now that one of its main rivals is zipping its lip about the dirty bits. Starting March 23, the Google-owned blog platform Blogger will bar users from “publicly” sharing images or...
by Alicia | Aug 24, 2013 | News, Online, Press
The Teen-Girl Tumblr Aesthetic* essay that I coauthored with LA-based writer Kate Durbin for Hyperallergic’s Tumblr as Art Symposium is featured on Vice.com. But if Jimmy is to be believed, why are are the Tumblr-ers blogging consistently enough to have...