User:Prosperosity/Moe Laga
Moe Laga | |
|---|---|
| Born | 32–33[1] New Zealand |
| Other names | Moe Laga-Fa'aofo, Moe Laga-Toleafoa, Mistress Supreme |
| Occupation | Performance artist |
Moe Laga, also known as Mistress Supreme, is a New Zealand performance artist and transgender advocate.
House mother for Coven-Carangi.
Biography[edit]
Moe Laga-Toleafoa https://www.thearts.co.nz/artists/fafswag
[2]
-Moe Laga-Fa’aofo
-diploma from the Pacific institute of Performing Arts
-completed her Bachelors in Creative Arts from the Manukau Institute of Technology.
https://www.depotartspace.co.nz/featured-artist/moe-laga/ https://www.renews.co.nz/as-pacific-artists-our-very-existence-is-activism-disruptors-7/ https://www.viva.co.nz/article/beauty-wellbeing/actress-performance-artist-moe-mistress-lagas-beauty-routine/ https://samesamebutdifferent.co.nz/writer/moe-laga/ https://www.rnz.co.nz/programmes/eating-fried-chicken/story/2018819794/coven-s-moe-laga-i-ran-away-from-home-at-21 https://gayexpress.co.nz/2021/03/having-a-ball-at-auckland-arts-festival/ https://gayexpress.co.nz/2014/11/urbanesa%e2%80%90-south-side-arts-festival-aims-breakdown-glbt-stereotypes/ https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/19511 https://pantograph-punch.com/posts/attack-the-block
[1] -member of FAFSWAG -walks the Poly-Typical category in FAFSWAG balls.
2017 Neon Bootleg https://gayexpress.co.nz/2017/10/neon-bootleg-unauthorised-biography-mistress-moe-laga/
As a member of FAFSWAG, Laga won the Interdisciplinary Arts award in 2020 from the Arts Foundation of New Zealand.[3]
https://nzrainbowawards.co.nz/about In 2020 “say her name ball” in 2020, with Falencie Filipo and Jaycee Tanuvasa, a charity ball raising awareness around hate crimes against trans women in the United States.
Featured in Baby Mama's Club in 2017[4], appeared in the 2018 film The Breaker Upperers[5] and was a writer for the Polynesian sketch comedy Sis (2022).
Personal life[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ a b Maoate-Cox, Daniela (23 December 2014). "Gays in leis: Gender-bending in South Auckland". Radio New Zealand. Retrieved 15 November 2022.
- ^ "MAKING SPACE: FAFSWAG". Centre of Contemporary Art. Retrieved 15 November 2022.
- ^ "FAFSWAG". Arts Foundation. 28 September 2020. Retrieved 31 January 2022.
- ^ https://proudvoicesonscreen.org/events/launch
- ^ Morton, Frances (30 April 2018). "Guess What World, New Zealand Has More Than One Funny Filmmaker". Vice. Retrieved 15 November 2022.
Category:1990s births
Category:21st-century New Zealand artists
Category:21st-century New Zealand dancers
Category:Fa'afafine
Category:New Zealand LGBT artists
Category:New Zealand LGBT people
Category:Living people
Category:New Zealand contemporary artists
Category:New Zealand people of Samoan descent
Category:Performance artists
Category:Transgender rights activists
Category:Transgender women