by Alicia | Feb 29, 2016 | Hyperallergic, Writing
In Lex Brown’s book My Wet Hot Drone Summer, #4 in the Badlands Unlimited New Lovers series (Hyperallergic previously reviewed #1), the artist/writer looks at a world not unlike our own, where sex, surveillance, and loss of privacy are intertwined in a commodified...
by Alicia | Feb 27, 2016 | Daily Dot, Writing
Comedian Mo Welch and her Instagram character Blair are very different, but she admits they’re pretty tight. Welch writes down the random depressing thoughts that cross her mind, and hands them over to her crude line-drawing creation. Blair, also known as Barely...
by Alicia | Feb 26, 2016 | CRAVE
Israeli-born, L.A.-based artist Yuval Pudik decided to only use vintage gay porn images in his solo exhibition KANADA at Cash Machine in Atwater Village, a small storefront artist-run gallery space. In this exhibition, the artist purchased old books and painstakingly...
by Alicia | Feb 26, 2016 | Hyperallergic, Writing
LOS ANGELES — As a woman who was once a teenage girl, I have a certain fondness for any filmic or visual art that harkens back to that time of intense, unbridled feelings, awkward physical changes, and sexual desires running wild ’n free. Now that I am far from my...
by Alicia | Feb 24, 2016 | Fiction, Writing
In a quest for sex, Alicia encounters two intense kitties I thought I was someone who loved cats. As a lifelong animal lover, I had a cat growing up — Penny was her name. Swiping around on Tinder just hours after landing at LaGuardia from LAX that summer, I noticed a...
