Stop Killing Trans Bakla

Malaya Lakas

b.1992

Malaya Lakas is a multidisciplinary artist, community organizer and healer interested in decolonial resistance and healing justice. Drawing from her career as a social worker, her artwork aims to center the power and resilience of queer and trans Black indigenous people of color (QTBIPOC) across liberation movements. She is a proud transgender woman of the Filipinx diaspora, and loves learning about her ancestral heritage. Malaya is currently based in Redding, California.