by Alicia | Jun 25, 2015 | CRAVE Online, News, Writing
I messaged her on a Sunday morning. We’d matched the previous day, and I was curious to get a chat going — I actually felt motivated to try and physically meet someone off Tinder. She wrote back, addressing me by my first name instead of a more generic “girl” or...
by Alicia | Jun 24, 2015 | Columns, CRAVE Online, News, Writing
There are three ways to approach someone on Tinder after you’ve matched: Say some variation of “hey, how are you?”, send over a compliment based on an image, or ask them a question based off of the photos they’ve posted. It’s hard to start up a conversation with a...
by Alicia | Jun 24, 2015 | CRAVE Online, News, Writing
It was time for my Uber and Lyft adventures to come to an end. I did the numbers and learned that I couldn’t afford to pay for a car service everyday. But before I decided to call it quits with the car companies that fulfilled my temporary (albeit...
by Alicia | Jun 23, 2015 | Columns, CRAVE Online, News, Writing
As usual, I missed the bus. This was probably a good thing because the bus takes at least one hour to get anywhere from where I live in Los Angeles’ Highland Park neighborhood to the other side of the Interstate 5. By car it’s only 15-20 minutes. Lately I’ve been...
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...
