Bex Oluwatoyin Thompson

Bex is a Boston-based writer and educator with a filmic and sculptural practice. Her work has appeared in Boston Art Review, Boston Ujima Press, Visions du Réel Film Festival, and BlackStar Film Festival. She is currently studying the theological dimensions of Black literature and film at Harvard Divinity School. These days she thinks about House(s) and home(s), archival rejoinder, and practices of evasion and escape. 

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Selected Works

ANOTHER OTHER
United States, 35mm, 9 min.
2025
Film

IT MUST ALL BE DONE IN DARKNESS
FOR DARKNESS IS AS LIGHT WITH YOU

Cambridge, MA
2025
Sculpture

ANTONYMS OF ABANDONMENT
Mister Magazine
2025
Writing

THE QUILT’S SONG
Boston Ujima Press
2024
Writing

CINEMATIC ERRANTRY
United States, 16mm, 2 min.
2024
Film

FROM THE CIRCLE
Boston Art Review
2023
Writing

ON THE RESPONSIBILITY OF READING
Self-Published
2023
Writing

NA CHAINKUA REINDORF IS UP TO NO GOOD
Self-Published
2022
Writing

FLEEING FROM SODOM AND GOMORRAH
Self-Published
2022
Writing

Selected Engagements

Contemporary Moving Image Practices
Harvard Art, Film, and Visual Studies
Spring 2025
Teaching Fellow
for Aily Tanaka Nash

Anibue: Information Silos and the Liberation of Knowledge for African Communities
19th ACASA Triennial Symposium on African Art
August 11, 2024
Speaker on behalf of
ANO Institute of Arts & Knowledge

In Their Own Voices: 
Black Women’s Lives from the Archives

Schlesinger Library at Harvard Radcliffe Institute
March 05, 2024
Tour Host 
with Niara Simone Hightower

Eleven Issues Later: A Reading Party
Boston Art Review
December 12, 2023
Guest Reader

Women’s Voices in Literature and the Arts
Boston Prison Education Program
Spring 2023
Teaching Fellow
with Hudson Vincent and Dharma Seda Gonzalez

From Plantations to Prisons: A Spotlight on Harvard University
Harvard Radcliffe Institute
Spring 2021
Facilitator
with Kaia Stern


Portrait by Dumebi Malaika Menakaya

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