by Alicia | Jul 13, 2023 | Comedy, Online, Press, Stand-Up Comedy
‘Jokes from the heart’: Alicia Kismet Eler finds material in experiences as a queer Turkish American Drawing deeply on her Turkish heritage and queer dating experiences, Alicia Kismet Eler wants to make people laugh and foster innovation and inclusivity in comedy. By...
by Alicia | Mar 31, 2023 | Online, Press, Selfie Press, selfiegeneration
My book The Selfie Generation is mentioned in this article on Forbes.com by Sam Mehrbod: The Face Behind The Brand Let me break it to you, we are all self-conscious about how we look or how we sound on camera. After all, what we see in the mirror every day is the...
by Alicia | Mar 31, 2023 | The Markaz Review, Writing
Looking for love and her father’s past, a Turkish American journalist haunts the streets of Istanbul before and after Covid. The sticky summer air sank into my skin as seagulls dove into the wavy blue waters of the Bosphorus Strait, the waterway that separates the...
by Alicia | Feb 15, 2023 | Hyperallergic, Writing
A new documentary investigates the racist origins of the Stone Mountain monument near Atlanta, Georgia — the Mount Rushmore of white supremacy. You’ve heard of Mount Rushmore, but do you know of Stone Mountain? If you answered no, here’s a fun fact: Though they lost...
by Alicia | Jan 31, 2023 | Hyperallergic, Journalism & Criticism, Writing
I reviewed Jillian Hernandez’s stellar book Aesthetics of Excess: The Art and Politics of Black and Latina Embodiment for Hyperallergic. Author Jillian Hernandez theorizes the intersecting formations of gender, class, and race in relation to the...
