by Alicia | Apr 10, 2014 | News, Online, Press
My selfie column is in Psychology Today, along with this excellent #artselfie by artist and reality TV star Peregrine Honig! Check it out: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/positively-media/201307/selfie-use-abuse-or-balance
by Alicia | Apr 9, 2014 | Hyperallergic
LOS ANGELES — It was 4:20pm when I walked into Depression and encountered Andrea Ursuta’s piece “Stoner” (2013). A batting-cage ball-throwing machine creaked on, spun once, and died before it could eject anything from its quarantined-off belly. It is located inside a...
by Alicia | Apr 7, 2014 | Hyperallergic, News, Selfie Column, Writing
LOS ANGELES — What’s the best thing about selfies right now? That they are everywhere, and there’s nothing you can do to stop them. According to the internet, selfies are both the cause and effect of many social issues today. Can a selfie make you skinnier? Of course...
by Alicia | Apr 2, 2014 | Hyperallergic, News, Selfie Column, Writing
The new web series #Hashtag follows the lives of young queer women in Chicago whose dating patterns and attractions are significantly affected by the technologies that they use and, at times, abuse. The drama takes place on the mobile devices of Liv and Skyler, two...
by Alicia | Mar 31, 2014 | Hyperallergic, News, Writing
Jon Rutzmoser’s thin book of poetry packed with thick descriptions of dicks, dire and dramatic Oedipal complexes, heavy-petting psychoanalytic theory references, and Disneyland descriptors made me laugh, pissed me off, had me rolling my eyes, and had me wondering what...