by Alicia | Jul 13, 2023 | Comedy, Online, Press, Stand-Up Comedy
‘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...
by Alicia | Mar 31, 2023 | The Markaz Review, Writing
Looking for love and her father’s past, a Turkish American journalist haunts the streets of Istanbul before and after Covid. The sticky summer air sank into my skin as seagulls dove into the wavy blue waters of the Bosphorus Strait, the waterway that separates the...
by Alicia | Jan 31, 2023 | Hyperallergic, Journalism & Criticism, Writing
I reviewed Jillian Hernandez’s stellar book Aesthetics of Excess: The Art and Politics of Black and Latina Embodiment for Hyperallergic. Author Jillian Hernandez theorizes the intersecting formations of gender, class, and race in relation to the...
by Alicia | Apr 24, 2018 | Comedy, News, Press, Projects, Stand-Up Comedy, 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...
by Alicia | Feb 14, 2016 | Op-eds, The Guardian, Writing
Valentine’s Day is an awkward, sensitive holiday whether or not you have a significant other and, perhaps especially, if you are single. To be “without love” on a day designed to celebrate it as loudly and publicly as possible can make even the most secure single...