Alessa Dominguez is a writer and critic covering gender, race and pop culture.
Her work has appeared in academic journals like Camera Obscura and GLQ, and publications like New York magazine, Vulture and BuzzFeed News, where she was a senior staff culture writer.
Born and raised in Barranquilla, Colombia, she received her PhD in American Studies from Brown University.
Selected Essays
Susan Sontag’s Queer Life
Reflections on Susan Sontag have yet to fully reckon with how fundamentally queerness shaped her writing and her life. Benjamin Moser’s controversial new biography Sontag finally begins that conversation.
Bernardine Dohrn Was Called The Most Dangerous Woman In America. Now, Her Son Reconsiders Her Legacy.
In his podcast, Mother Country Radicals, Zayd Dohrn, the son of 1970s Weather Underground leader Bernardine Dohrn, revisits her story.
Ryan Murphy Doesn’t Understand How True Crime Has Changed
Murphy’s hit shows about Andrew Cunanan and the Menéndez brothers rely on outdated tropes about abuse and violence.
Hollywood Casts A Very Flattering Light On Right-Wing White Women
In reimagining the conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly as a prestige-TV antihero, the new FX series Mrs. America overlooks some uncomfortable realities.
Interviews
