by Alicia | Feb 13, 2021 | Selfie Press, selfiegeneration
In one sense, our smartphones, with all these selfies, are now our pocket mirrors, inspiring the same self-conscious anxieties that mirrors provoked. Yet taking a selfie is also different from peering into a mirror: The mirror is mostly private, but every time...
by Alicia | Sep 10, 2020 | Press
Written by Paddy Johnson for Gizmodo, Jan. 21, 2020: While emoji objects like the gun may retain their original meaning, changed illustrations of faces do not have this problem. A face gritting teeth is always going to read differently than the toothy smile it evolved...
by Alicia | Sep 10, 2020 | Gizmodo, Writing
Published on Gizmodo, May 25, 2020: Caribbean reef squid (Sepioteuthis sepioidea), Curacao, Netherlands Antilles. Photo: Getty Humans and other animals are quite alike—we all just speak different languages. For humans, it’s about the spoken word. With animals, the...
by Alicia | Sep 10, 2020 | NBC, Writing
From NBC Think, published Aug. 15 2020. They’re not really country, but they’re not rock ‘n’ roll either. They’re barely even a band that can still attract critical attention, yet their continually commercially successful songs still incite waves of anger...
by Alicia | Sep 10, 2020 | GO Magazine, Writing
From GO Magazine, June 30, 2019 S.E. Jackson, JD Glass, Robin Kish, Alicia Eler, Che Landon, and Dayna Troisi We are thrilled to present this year’s 100 Women We Love—a diverse group of out entertainers, athletes, artists, activists, business leaders, and elected...
