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Malaya Lakas is a multidisciplinary artist, community organizer, and healer whose work is rooted in decolonial resistance and healing justice. As a transgender woman of the Filipinx diaspora, her art centers the power, beauty, and complexity of queer and trans Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (QTBIPOC). Drawing from her background in social work and shaped by her experience in the house ballroom community, Malaya’s practice spans visual storytelling, painting, digital media, writing, performance, and ritual to explore themes of transformation, safety, and ancestral memory. She is currently based in the territory of xučyun (Huichin), the ancestral and unceded land of the Chochenyo speaking Ohlone people and Muwekma Ohlone Tribe.
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