Mining my inner-conflicts: motherhood & autonomy ⚡️ ambition & surrender ⚡️ sovereignty & culture. Sometimes mordant, sometimes tender, the mess is intentional and the through-line is uplift.
Research on visual culture, California, ghost towns, and the U.S. West. Includes ongoing research essays, reviews, and some diary-like dispatches sent from the road. Your paid subscription supports my work.
Absurd, honest comedy delivered twice a weekish through the vulnerable personal essays of Alex Dobrenko: tv actor+writer to some, father to o̶n̶e̶ two, and friend to all.