INTERVIEWS
02.01.22 MS. MAGAZINE: “JEX BLACKMORE SWALLOWS ABORTION PILL ON FOX NEWS: “IT’S LITERALLY THIS EASY”
01.28.22 NBC NEWS: “ACTIVIST JEX BLACKMORE TOOK AN ABORTION PILL ON LIVE TV. THE MOMENT WENT VIRAL”
01.26.22 WASHINGTON POST: “AN ACTIVIST TOOK AN ABORTION PILL DURING A TV INTERVIEW”
02.01.22 DETROIT METROTIMES: “DETROIT ACTIVISTS LAUNCH GUERRILLA CAMPAIGN FOR MAIL-ORDER ABORTION PILLS”
11.03.21 CURA.37: “SEX MILITANT,”
10.02.21 ANTHONY PADILLA: “SO I SPENT A DAY WITH SATANISTS”
09.21.21 "SEX MILITANT: POLITICAL ART," GESTALTEN VERLAG
03.21.21 LET’S WATCH WITH THE ANN ARBOR FILM FESTIVAL: JEX BLACKMORE
02.15.20 GOOD TROUBLE MAGAZINE ISSUE 21: “SEX MILITANT”
02.01.20 LUMPEN MAG: “TOGETHERISM”
12.17.19 CHICAGO READER: “SIX VISUAL ART SHOWS THAT MADE 2020 BEARABLE”
10.10.19 RUE MORGUE: “THE DEVIL: LEGACY IN HORROR”
09.03.19 EYE94: “WEARING SATAN’S JEWELED CROWN: AN INTERVIEW WITH JEX BLACKMORE”
05.20.19 JEZEBEL: “SATANIC ARTIST AND ACTIVIST JEX BLACKMORE ON HER CONTROVERSIAL ROLE IN THE DOCUMENTARY HAIL SATAN?”
05.10.19 HYPERALLERGIC: “A DOCUMENTARY ON THE BIRTH AND GROWTH OF THE SATANIC TEMPLE”
09.05.19 RUE MORGUE: “THE DEVIL: LEGACY IN HORROR”
09.03.19 EYE94: “WEARING SATAN’S JEWELED CROWN: AN INTERVIEW WITH JEX BLACKMORE”
05.20.19 JEZEBEL: “SATANIC ARTIST AND ACTIVIST JEX BLACKMORE ON HER CONTROVERSIAL ROLE IN THE DOCUMENTARY HAIL SATAN?”
05.10.19 HYPERALLERGIC: “A DOCUMENTARY ON THE BIRTH AND GROWTH OF THE SATANIC TEMPLE”
11.13.18 SERPENTCAST: “SATANIC WITCHCRAFT”
10.31.18 DAZED: “MEET SATANIST, ACTIVIST, AND PERFORMANCE ARTIST JEX BLACKMORE”
08.15.18 GOOD TROUBLE MAGAZINE: “JEX RATED”
06.18.18 GOT A GIRL CRUSH: SATANIC FEMINISM & BODY AUTONOMY
02.15.18 SLUTIST: "JEX BLACKMORE'S SATANIC RITUAL OF RESISTANCE"
01.23.18 THE KANSAS CITY STAR: "SATANIST ARGUES HER RELIGIOUS ABORTION-RIGHTS CASE BEFORE THE MISSOURI SUPREME COURT"
01.23.18 NEWSWEEK: "SATANIC TEMPLE FIGHTS MISSOURI ABORTION LAW THAT STATES LIFE BEGINS AT CONCEPTION: THATS'S NOT SCIENCE"
01.22.18 NBC NEWS: "SATANIC TEMPLE CHALLENGES MISSOURI ABORTION LAW ON RELIGIOUS GROUNDS"
11.20.17 TELEMUNDO: "TRUMP Y ROY MOORE BAJO LA LUPA DE UNA LIDER SATANISTA"
10.05.17 THE FRONT: “HOLY HELL: JEX BLACKMORE’S SATANIC FEMINISM”
10.06.17 NEWSWEEK: "ABORTION RIGHTS RIGHT HAS AN UNLIKELY CHAMPION: THE SATANIC TEMPLE"
09.15.17 BUSTLE: "ARE SATANISTS PRO-ABORTION? MISSOURI IS FIGHTING AN UNLIKELY OPPONENT OVER REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS"
09.14.17 BROADLY: "SATANISTS VS. REPUBLICANS: A BATTLE FOR ABORTION RIGHTS RAGES IN MISSOURI"
08.23.16 EXTRA CRISPY: “WHAT SATANIST JEX BLACKMORE EATS FOR BREAKFAST”
02.16.16 BROADLY: "CUM RAGS FOR CONGRESS"
03.25.16 THE DAILY BEAST: "MICHIGAN SATANISTS DEFEND PLANNED PARENTHOOD ON GOOD FRIDAY"
02.26.16 MILK: "'THE WITCH': DISHING WITH THE FILM'S STAR AND A HEAD OF THE SATANIC TEMPLE"
02.26.16 BROADLY: "WE ATTENDED THE SATANIC TEMPLE'S NAKED RITUAL ENDORSING 'THE WITCH'"
02.21.16 COMPLEX: "INSIDE A SATANIST AFTER-PARTY FOR THE WITCH"
02.21.16 VANITY FAIR: "HOW 'THE WITCH' BECAME A HUGE HIT WITH SATANISTS"
02.19.16 THE DAILY BEAST: "SATANISTS: WE'RE WATCHING YOU TED CRUZ"
02.18.16 VOX: "WHY SATANISTS HAVE GIVEN NEW HORROR MOVIE 'THE WITCH" THEIR ENDORSEMENT"
02.17.16 WALL STREET JOURNAL: "SATANIST-APPROVED 'THE WITCH' AND FAITH BASED 'RISEN'...TOGETHER"
12.17.15 PLAYGROUND MAG BARCELONA: “DESMATERNIDAD…”
12.13.15 DAILY BEAST: “SATANIC TEMPLE LEADER BLOGS HER ABORTION”
12.11.15 WASHINGTON POST: “SATANIC SPOKESWOMAN IS BLOGGING HER ABORTION”
12.10.15 INDEPENDENT UK: “MICHIGAN SATANISTS BOLSTER BATTLE FOR ABORTION RIGHTS”
12.09.15 BUSTLE: “THE UNMOTHER PROJECT BY JEX BLACKMORE”
12.09.15 COSMOPOLITAN: “THIS WOMAN BLOGGED EVERY STEP OF HER ABORTION”
12.08.15 BROADLY/VICE: “THIS SATANIC TEMPLE LEADER IS BLOGGING HER ABORTION”
12.07.15 JEZEBEL: “SATANIC TEMPLE SPOKESWOMAN WRITES ABOUT HER ABORTION”
09.22.15 HOPES + FEARS: “NOT SATIRE, NOT EVIL…”
08.28.15 ABC NEWS: “WHY DETROIT HAS THE LARGEST SATANIC TEMPLE CHAPTER IN US”
08.25.15 BROADLY/VICE: “SATANISTS AMBUSH PROTESTS WITH THEATRICAL MILK BATH”
07.27.15 TIME: ”HUNDREDS GATHER FOR UNVEILING OF SATANIC STATUE IN DETROIT”
07.29.15 TELEMUNDO: "CONFESIONES DE UNA MUJER SATANISTA"
02.17.15 THE DAILY BEAST: “CAN THE SATANIC TEMPLE SAVE AMERICA?”
12.17.14 NPR: “SATANIST AND CHRISTIAN HOLIDAY DISPLAYS GO UP AT MICHIGAN CAPITOL”
07.30.14 SALON: “THIS ISN’T A JOKE TO US: SATANISTS GET SERIOUS…”
07.28.14 THE HUFFINGTON POST: “SATANISTS CITE HOBBY LOBBY IN CAMPAIGN…”
SELECTED TELEVISION
01.23.22 LET IT RIP, FOX 2 DETROIT
06.16.16 BROADLY/VICE: DEVIL'S ADVOCATES
12.20.15 WILX: SATANIC CEREMONY HELD ON CAPITOL GROUNDS
12.02.15 CNN: THIS IS LIFE WITH LISA LING SEASON FINALE
08.24.15 LIVE COVERAGE FOX 2 DETROIT
07.15.15 LET IT RIP, FOX 2 DETROIT
12.19.14 USA TODAY
12.16.14 FOX 17 WEST MICHIGAN
ACADEMIC ESSAYS/BOOKS
Emergency INDEX: An Annual Document of Performance Practice, vol. 9 (2020)
“‘WOULDST THOU LIKE TO LIVE DELICIOUSLY?’: GOTHIC FEMINISM AND THE FINAL GIRL IN ROBERT EGGERS’ THE WITCH’,” MADDEN, FINAL GIRLS, FEMINISM AND POPULAR CULTURE (2020)
“QUEERING WITCHES: A QUEER FEMINIST EXPLORATION OF WITCHES IN MEDIA” RICKS,THESIS STUDY, EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY (2020)
“THE SATANIC TEMPLE: SECULARIST ACTIVISM AND OCCULTURE IN THE AMERICAN POLITICAL LANDSCAPE, ” HEDENORG WHITE AND GREOGRIUS, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR THE STUDY OF NEW RELIGIONS, VOL 10, NO 1 (2019)
“‘I AM THAT VERY WITCH’: ON THE WITCH, FEMINISM, AND NOT SURVIVING PATRIARCHY,” ZWISSLER, JOURNAL OF RELIGION AND FILM, VOL 22, ISSUE 3 (2018)
“THE GROTESQUE PROTEST IN SOCIAL MEDIA AS EMBODIED, POLITICAL RHETORIC,” BIVENS AND COLE, JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION INQUIRY, 42(1), (2018)
“LIVING DELICIOUSLY: SATANIC FEMINIST SUBVERSION IN THE WITCH,” KETTELLE, THESIS STUDY, SIMMONS COLLEGE (2018)
WITCHES, SLUTS, FEMINISTS by KRISTEN SOLLEE: "POLITICAL WITCH" (2017)
SELECTED RADIO // PODCASTS
01.28.21 LOVE + RADIO “FRUIT OF KNOWLEDGE”
05.10.20 FEMMECULT: “INTERVIEW WITH CONTROVERSIAL PERFORMANCE ARTIST, JEX BLACKMORE”
04.09.20 BEYOND BELIEF: “SATAN…THE FEMINIST?”
09.06.19 LUMPEN RADIO: WEEK IN REVIEW
11.13.18 THE SERPENT CAST: “SATANIC WITCHCRAFT WITH JEX BLACKMORE”
07.24.18 BLACK MASS APPEAL: “JEX BLACKMORE”
01.19.16 PROPAGANDA: "LAUGHING WITH TYRANTS," BITCHMEDIA
04.07.16 THE ROAD PODCAST WITH JT HABERSAAT
12.03.15 GUNWASH PODCAST, “SATAN”
08.31.15 WDBM: “THE UNDERCURRENT”
08.27.15 SLASH DETROIT, THE DETROIT NEWS
12.16.14 THE MITCH ALBOM SHOW
12.14.14 FRANK BECKMAN
09.28.14 HER TURN RADIO
SELECTED LECTURES + DEBATES
05.24.19 “RELIGIOUS LIBERTY IN AMERICA” STATE THEATER, ANN ARBOR, MI
03.01.19 “EXPLOITING THE SPECTACLE FOR SUBVERSIVE MEANS”: NOT YOUR BABE FEST, MONTREAL CA
02.01.19 “LEAPS OF FAITH”: SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL, PARK CITY, UTAH
04.02.18 “RADICAL FREE SPEECH: A DEBATE WITH AN ANTI-CHOICE STREET PREACHER,” CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY
12.09.18 “EXPLORING PRACTICAL MAGIC FOR ARTISTS AND CREATIVES”: BUST SCHOOL FOR CREATIVE LIVING, BROOKLYN, NY
12.07.18 “PUBLIC RIGHTS/PRIVATE CONSCIENCE”: COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, NY
04.23.18 “RADICAL FREE SPEECH: A DEBATE WITH THE WESTBORO BAPTIST CHURCH,” CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY
11.02.17 “INCITING SUBVERSION OF STATE POWER,” STEEMFEST LISBON
04.28.17 “RITUALIZED RESISTANCE,” LEFT HAND PATH CONFERENCE
04.22.16 “SATANIC FEMINISM AS ACTIVISM,” CATLAND BOOKS, BROOKLYN
10.14.15 CONFERENCE OF SECULAR ARABS