Alicia Eler (they/she) is a writer, arts journalist and culture critic. She is the author of The Selfie Generation, and the visual art critic/reporter at the Minnesota Star Tribune, which won a Pulitzer Prize for the breaking news reporting of George Floyd’s killing. Alicia’s journalism and memoir has been published in The Guardian, New York Magazine, Glamour, Harper’s Bazaar, and The Markaz Review, and her fiction has appeared in Queen Mobs Teahouse and Projecttile Lit.
Alicia also does standup comedy under the name Alicia Kismet. To learn more about that, go to aliciakismetcomedy.com.
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Email: alicia [dot] eler [at] gmail [dot] com or find them on Twitter and Instagram at @aliciaeler.
By Alicia Eler
The Selfie Generation:
How Our Self-Images Are Changing Our Notions of Privacy, Sex, Consent, and Culture
Whether it’s Kim Kardashian uploading picture after picture to Instagram or your roommate posting a mid-vacation shot to Facebook, selfies receive mixed reactions. But are selfies more than, as many critics lament, a symptom of a self-absorbed generation?
Recent Writing
University of Minnesota professor finds joy — and solace — in gardening — STAR TRIBUNE
The Native Journalists Fighting for a Free Press — HYPERALLERGIC
“Beautiful Ghosts, or We’ll Always Have Istanbul” — THE MARKAZ REVIEW
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