Red Hoop Talk EP 80: Landa Lakes, Chickasaw, writer, artist and activist
Landa Lakes is a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation, a writer, activist and artist and stays #CloseToCulture. As drag persona Landa Lakes founded drag performance groups in 2004 in San Francisco including the Two-Spirit Native American drag troupe, the Brush Arbor Gurlz, and in 2005 the creative and campy House of Glitter. She is also the Westcoast Mother of the Vogue House of Lauren, International, and is the recipient of the national pageant title Jewel of the Galaxy.
Landa uses art to combine contemporary ideas with Native history and traditional stories to convey the shared experiences and understanding of human nature outside the Western perspective. Her notable honors include the New York Fresh Fruit Festival Performance Award, KQED LGBT Local Hero Award, and she was publicly elected as Grand Duchess 36 of the Grand Ducal Council of San Francisco, a non-profit organization of which she has served as president.
Landa served as Co-Chair to the Bay Area American Indian Two-Spirits (BAAIT-S) for many years and remains on the board, she is one of the original founders of the BAAIT-S Two-Spirit Powwow now in its 14th year. The BAAIT-S Powwow was the first Two-Spirit public powwow and has continued to bring in close to 5,000 people annually. In 2019, she co-founded the annual Weaving Spirits Two-Spirit Performance Festival. Credits include RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 1 episode 7, I’ve Been To Manhattan, Launch Pad and The Roof.
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