Alicia Kısmet Eler

Alicia Kısmet Eler (they/them) is an arts journalist, critic and comedian. They are the author of The Selfie Generation, and the visual art critic/reporter at the Minneapolis Star Tribune, which won a 2021 Pulitzer Prize for the breaking news reporting of George Floyd’s killing. Alicia’s journalism and memoir has been published in The Guardian, New York Magazine, Glamour, Harper’s Bazaar, and The Markaz Review, and her fiction has appeared in Queen Mobs Teahouse and Projecttile Lit.

Alicia grew up in the Chicago suburbs with a secular Jewish mom and Turkish dad. These are topics they talk about a lot in their comedy. Learn more about their comedy journey in this wonderful article on Sahan Journal!

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Email: alicia [dot] eler [at] gmail [dot] com or find them on Twitter and Instagram  at @aliciaeler.

Photo credit: Sabrín Diehl

By Alicia Eler

The Selfie Generation:

How Our Self-Images Are Changing Our Notions of Privacy, Sex, Consent, and Culture

Whether it’s Kim Kardashian uploading picture after picture to Instagram or your roommate posting a mid-vacation shot to Facebook, selfies receive mixed reactions. But are selfies more than, as many critics lament, a symptom of a self-absorbed generation?

Writing

‘Jokes from the heart’: Alicia Kismet Eler finds material in experiences as a queer Turkish American — SAHAN JOURNAL

George Floyd mural 1

The Native Journalists Fighting for a Free Press — HYPERALLERGIC

 

 

“Beautiful Ghosts, or We’ll Always Have Istanbul” — THE MARKAZ REVIEW

"How to Win Tinder" + "Tinderization of Feeling"

New Inquiry 

Alicia Eler & Eve Peyser

"Joe Cool"

New Inquiry

Alicia Eler

"For Turkish Women Artists & Advocates, #challengeaccepted Is About More Than Just Selfies"

Hyperallergic

Alicia Eler 

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