Zoey Black is an indigenous transgender queer of colour woman living in Cape Town, South Africa. She is a queer renaissance and culture documentarian, using film and photography to tell authentic and engaging queer stories.

She graduated from the University of Cape Town as a trained professional actress and has over a decade of experience in live performance, filmmaking and photography, training and facilitation, and project and organisational management.

Zoey’s work is focused on on telling authentic and engaging queer stories through a documentation lens, working closely with trans and queer communities in South Africa. Her work on YouTube also aims to address and explore social and lifestyle issues pertaining to the LGBTQIA+ community, specifically the experiences of transgender and gender diverse people. The channel is the first of its kind in South Africa and acts as a resource in providing accessible information on trans specific issues.

She is the Founder and Executive Director of Gamut 1, a non-profit organisation and creative firm which creates high-quality, queer-focussed, educational media for the promotion of LGBTQIA+ human rights and wellbeing. The organisation’s primary work is the documentation and dissemination of trans and queer stories as vehicles for social change, as well as ongoing research to advance global queer human rights discourse by understanding of how trans and queer media can be used as a powerful and effective mechanism for advocacy.