Amandine Gay is a political author. Following her graduation from the Institute of Political Studies in Lyon in 2007 with a masters in communication, Amandine joined the Conservatory of Dramatic Art in Paris 16 and began performing in theatre, film and television. Since 2012, she has also been working as a screenwriter and she’s also been contributing as a freelance journalist for Slate.fr. In 2014 she takes on directing with a reportage on the #BoycottExhibitB demonstrations, and that same year, she starts working on her first documentary, Speak Up/Make Your Way, a feature-length about francophone black women.
Amandine authored the preface of the first French translation of bell hooks' seminal, "Ain't I A Woman". She is currently living in Montreal, completing her second master's degree in sociology, focusing on transracial adoption. She is a director, writer, freelance journalist and speaker. She is regularly asked to speak about afro-feminism, intersectionality and adoption at events such as the Toronto and Winnipeg Spur Festival. Students were able to hear her at the University of Edinburgh, the Université du Québec à Montréal, at UOttawa, at the University of Lausanne, at the Université Lumière Lyon 2, at the École de Recherche Graphique in Brussels, at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, etc.
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