Biography
Zoey Black is a queer renaissance and culture architect.
As a disabled, indigenous, queer, transgender woman of color living in Cape Town, South Africa, her unique work is focused on using creative mediums and cultural platforms as vehicles for social change and is dedicated to advancing queer human rights around the world.
She is the Founder and Executive Director of Gamut 1, a non-profit organization and creative firm which uses media, culture and research as mechanisms for embodied self-efficacy, resilience, and joy.
Zoey graduated from the University of Cape Town as a theatre practitioner and has over a decade of experience in live performance, filmmaking, photography, peer facilitation, and project and organizational management.
She has presented sessions and panel discussions, speaking at at local and international conferences, including the ILGA World Conference, Pan Africa ILGA, CREA reConference, Encounters South African International Documentary Film Festival, FAME Week Africa, University of Cape Town Film Society, and Open Book Festival South Africa, amongst many others. She is an alumni of the Berlinale Co-Production Market’s program (Berlin), Doc Society’s Queer Now lab (New York), Rough Cut Lab Africa’s filmmakers program (Johannesburg) and the International Documentary Film Amsterdam’s IDFAcadmey (Amsterdam).
Zoey is also a published author and editor, contributing most notably to They Called Me Queer (2019), Trans Rural Narratives (2020) and Keeping the Promise of Dignity and Freedom for All (2020).
