ZAMI NOBLA (National Organization of Black Lesbians on Aging) is a national organization committed to building a strong and sustainable base of power for Black lesbian feminists aged 40 and older. Our mission is clear: to advance health/wellness, housing/food justice, movement work, education, and community-engaged research that centers the lives, experiences, and leadership of Black lesbians as we age. We exist to confront and disrupt the systems that have historically marginalized our voices, and to affirm the wisdom, creativity, and resilience of our communities.
We work from a Black feminist social justice framework that understands aging as both a personal journey and a political one. Aging is not just about getting older, it’s about how systems of power shape our access to housing, healthcare, community, and dignity. We challenge narratives that render older Black lesbians invisible or irrelevant, and instead promote new paradigms of conscious aging rooted in agency, joy, and collective care.
At ZAMI NOBLA, we affirm that our work is community work, it is collective work, and it is work rooted in a commitment to social justice. We are actively engaged in the fight against racialized ageism, misogynoir, ableism, classism, homophobia, transphobia, and xenophobia. These forms of oppression do not operate separately in our lives, they are deeply interconnected, and we approach our mission with the understanding that liberation must be intersectional.
Programs
- Sister Harriet Spiritual Collective
- ZAMI NOBLA Community Archivist Project
- The ZAMI NOBLA Advocacy Collective
zaminobla.org
