Nevo Zisin

About

Nevo Zisin (they/them) is 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 brilliant Jonathan Van Ness, Transparent producer Zackary Drucker & world-famous spoken-word poet & activist Alok Vaid-Menon.

Their work has appeared in The Saturday Paper, NGV Magazine, Archer Magazine, Buzzfeed, Junkee, SBS, Hack Live, ABC’s The Drum, The Morning Show, amongst others. They were a 2022 Varuna Scribe Fellow and are an ambassador for Wear It Purple and an inaugural ambassador for the Victorian Pride Centre.

Past Events

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Beyond Binary: Nevo Zisin on Gender

Nevo Zisin, Fury

Past event

28 Nov

The Wheeler Centre Gala 2018: Words on Fire

Tony Birch, Rosie Waterland, Leah Purcell, Omar Musa, Moira Finucane, Sally Warhaft, Patricia Cornelius, Carly Findlay, Rachael Maza, Nevo Zisin

Past event

26 Feb

Biography, Memoir and Queer Experiences

Maria Katsonis, Nevo Zisin, Eddie Ayres

Past event

5 May

Our City of Literature

Parliament: Future Melbourne

Adolfo Aranjuez, Leah Jing McIntosh, Nevo Zisin, Hella Ibrahim, Karys McEwen, Bridget Caldwell-Bright, Amy Vuleta, Gene Smith, Alistair Baldwin, Elena Gomez, Jessica Knight, Elyce Phillips, Rachel Ang, Oslo Davis, Anna Snoekstra, Laniyuk, Michael Williams, Didem Caia, Sam van Zweden, Tariro Mavondo

Past event

30 Nov

Our City of Literature

Parliament: Melbourne, 2030

Adolfo Aranjuez, Leah Jing McIntosh, Nevo Zisin, Hella Ibrahim, Karys McEwen, Bridget Caldwell-Bright, Amy Vuleta, Gene Smith, Elena Gomez, Alistair Baldwin, Jessica Knight, Elyce Phillips, Rachel Ang, Sophie Cunningham, Anna Snoekstra, Laniyuk, Michael Williams, Didem Caia, Sam van Zweden, Tariro Mavondo

Past event

30 Nov