Adesola ‘Des’ Thomas is a queer Nigerian-American TV writer, playwright, and community organizer based in Brooklyn, NY. Her reverence for dramedy, afrofuturism, and solarpunk writing developed during her adolescence in the boondocks of ethnoburban Georgia, where she divided her quality time between queers punks in the Atlanta DIY (do-it-yourself) music scene and her charismatic African Christian~Muslim polygamist immigrant family. In the words of Larry David, what a combo. Through her TV writing, Adesola aspires to create compelling, genre television that celebrates the particularities, bliss, slowness, warmth that pools through Black lives across the diaspora. She is especially keen to capture the ways these diasporas (West African, African-American, Caribbean, Afro-Latine, etc.) overlap and converge in the American South.
Adesola is currently a BIPOC Sci-FI TV Writing Mentor for the Justice 4 My Sister Collective in Los Angeles where she specializes in Afrofuturist worldbuilding and Black political traditions. She is also the NY-based correspondent for Letterboxd’s film publication Journal where she regularly interviews Black auteurs (Elegance Bratton, Chinonye Chukwu, Kwame Arme-Appiah, Whoopi Goldberg, Alice Diop, John Boyega) about their reverence for movies and their artistic inner-worlds.
