Nevo Zisin
Nevo Zisin is a white Ashkenazi Jewish settler living on unceded Wurundjeri Land. They are a storyteller, esteemed educator on transgender topics, TEDx speaker, poet, workshop facilitator in schools and workplaces, and award-winning author of Finding Nevo, a memoir on gender transition and The Pronoun Lowdown, a useful guidebook on all things related to pronouns. They have been in-conversation with Queer Eye’s Jonathan Van Ness, Transparent producer Zackary Drucker and world-famous spoken-word poet and activist Alok Vaid-Menon. They were a 2022 Varuna Scribe Fellow and are an ambassador for Wear It Purple.
Nevo’s work explores collective healing and liberation, mutual aid as a mycelial network ecosystem, reclaiming transgender divinity, making mistakes and creating a practice of failure. Their identity exists in the breaths between words and their greatest accomplishments in life beyond anything, are their friendships.