Alicia Kismet Comedy on TwinCitiesGayScene.com // Maggie Faris show
Ain't no party like a Maggie Faris party! Cuz a Maggie Faris party don't stop! Q&A with Alicia Kısmet Have you performed on Maggie's PRIDE show before? I haven’t performed on one of her shows before! Knowing Maggie’s comedy, I am sure folks can expect unhinged...
‘Jokes from the heart’: Alicia Kismet Eler finds material in experiences as a queer Turkish American / Sahan Journal
‘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...
How To Build An Authentic, Relatable Brand On Social Media / FORBES
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...
30 Art History Memes That Are Hilariously Relatable, As Shared On This Instagram Page / BoredPanda.com
The middle ages were definitely a different time, which we can clearly see reflected in their artwork. But even though we might not be able to relate to wielding swords, wearing fabulous dresses or having our villages pillaged, human nature stays the same, and some...
In Minneapolis, plywood boards become protest art worth preserving / The Art Newspaper
Author: Sheila Regan Last summer, Kelly formed Memorialize the Movement, a group that is dedicated to preserving this work. It was an effort mirrored by another young Black woman, Kenda Zellner-Smith, who started her own grassroots group, Save the Boards, around the...
Why Young Men Need Social Media, Now More than Ever / Men’s Health UK
Even the much derided selfie isn’t entirely without its merits. In her book The Selfie Generation, author Alicia Eler has argued that sharing photos of yourself can be an act of empowerment, particularly for marginalised or underrepresented communities. “I’m all for...
Emoji We Lost / GIZMODO
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...
100 Women We Love: Class Of 2019
“From GOMAG, June 30, 2019, by JDG:” Alicia Eler Photo by Paul Andrews Selfie connoisseur Kim Kardashian and writer Alicia Eler have a lot in common. Eler is the author of “The Selfie Generation: How Our Self-Images Are Changing Our Notions of Privacy, Sex, Consent,...
A maior contribuição cultural de Britney Spears para o mundo é sua conta no Instagram
“From Huffpost Brasil, April 6, 2018, by Priscilla Frank:” Usando maquiagem esfumaçada nos olhos e um robe azul peludinho, a ex-princesa do pop Britney Spears canta uma letra de Frank Sinatra diante da câmera de seu iPhone e, com isso, do ciber-universo maior....
Las apps de citas han cambiado para siempre el modo en que ligamos
From Revista GQ, February 18, 2019, by Noel Ceballos La "tinderización de los sentimientos" y la "gamificación del deseo" nos están convirtiendo en amantes robóticos y ansiosos. El amor es... © Getty Images Lanzada en 2014, Bumble es una app de citas diferente a todas...
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“Art at Arm’s Length: A History of the Selfie” by Jerry Saltz — New York Magazine [PRESS]
I am honored to be a part of Jerry Saltz's take on the selfie in his column for this week's New York Magazine. Check out the quote here: Selfies are usually casual, improvised, fast; their primary purpose is to be seen here, now, by other people, most of them unknown,...
How will 2018’s LGBTQ-inclusive films fare at awards season?
From NBC News, January 2, 2019, by Gwen Aviles: 2018 was the biggest year in LGBTQ-inclusive cinema. From “Love, Simon” to “Boy Erased,” 2018 saw an unprecedented bounty of high-profile LGBTQ films—many of which are up for awards. Multiple actors have been nominated...
15 hilarious women you need to follow on Twitter
From Daily Dot, August 4, 2015 by Eve Peyser: "13) Alicia Eler (@AliciaEler) Who: Alicia Eler is a queer writer who edits ART21 magazine, contributes to the Guardian and Hyperallergic, and splits her time between Los Angeles and New York City. Sample line: “Affective...
Blackflix and Zoe Saldana as Nina Simone: The Week in Pop-Culture Writing
From The Atlantic, March 5, 2016 by The Editors: "The highlights from seven days of reading about entertainment... Joe Cool Alicia Eler | The New Inquiry “But Joe doesn’t need to be your ‘friend’ online. He doesn’t want a Tinderized relationship. Trader Joe’s is...
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Mortified Chicago: Adolescence revisited on ABC-7’s show 190North [TV]
I'll never forget what it was like to be a teenage girl. Crushes kept me up all night long journaling about a never-ending wave of emotions. I scrawled poems about masturbation while listening to songs on repeat from my idol, queer folk singer-songwriter Ani Difranco....
Amazing mention in The New Yorker!
I am so honored the the essay “The Teen-Girl Tumblr Aesthetic” that I co-authored for Hyperallergic a few years ago with Kate Durbin is in today's New Yorker! read Haley Mlotek's review of @SoSadToday's new book of poetry, which discusses a similar concept that Durbin...
Can Women Build a Better Tinder?
From WIRED, November 17, 2015, by Alana Hope Levinson: "Being single in 2015 often means cynically scaling the walls of the internet and praying for a foothold. “Winning Tinder is about mastering the app’s affordances, its game mechanics, the dissociative buffers that...
Final Destination
From The Awl, August 18, 2017: "Writing in The New Inquiry, Eve Peyser and Alicia Eler liken the Tinder profile to a video game avatar. Bearing your name and modest resemblance, it skulks around a landscape that is addictive, fun, and goal-oriented. Success seems...
‘Sylvia’ finds new life on a blog
From the Chicago Tribune, November 14, 2010 by Mary Schmich: "I joke with my friends that she's a 71-year-old hipster," says Alicia Eler, the 26-year-old social media consultant who runs Hollander's blog. "She is actually cooler than any 20- or 30-something hipsters I...
Is TINDER changing the way we think? Experts warn ‘binary thinking’ teaches people to over simplify and become disconnected
From Daily Mail, January 15, 2016 by Cheyenne McDonald: "In an essay for The New Inquiry called Tinderization of Feeling, Alicia Eler and Eve Peyser write that Tinderization is a way for people, largely millennials, to make fast decisions by simplifying situations...