Jex Blackmore

Jex Blackmore was born in Southfield, Michigan in 1986. She is an activist and artist best known for her controversial performances in public spaces ranging from the steps of state capitols to outside women's health clinics. Her work, which is focused on the relationship between moral religious rhetoric, sexuality and political policy, takes aim at institutions of social and sexual oppression. She has debated evangelical preachers on live television and been the subject of several documentary shorts. In 2015, she organized the largest Satanic gathering in history to unveil The Satanic Temple's Baphoment monument, which was featured on The Satanists Next Door (2015). In 2016, she began to experiment with directing and large scale performance. She created a performance series in conjunction with the theatrical release of the A24 film, The Witch (2015), which toured in New York City, Los Angeles, and Austin. She also wrote and directed her first film "An Undue Burden," a twenty-four hour endurance film about the burden of abortion waiting-periods. Her reproductive health care advocacy has ranged from disrupting anti-choice demonstrations using gallons of milk, writing about her personal abortion experience in the viral blog entitled "Unmother," and debating the Westboro Baptist Church. Her work is featured in the Magnolia Picture's documentary, Hail Satan? (2019) which was an official selection at Sundance 2019.