Interview with La Santa, Mozambican LGBTQ icon
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https://doi.org/10.9771/peri.v1i23.61998Abstract
La Santa is a transgender Mozambican woman of Macua origin, an activist for LGBTQ rights and a founding member of LAMBDA, the main institution fighting for the recognition of the LGBTQ community in the country. In addition to her history of political struggles, La Santa is recognized throughout her national territory for the quality and potential of her artistic work. She became famous in the early 2000s when, together with her duo La Biba, she took part in a reality TV show where they performed drag queens. Since then, throughout Mozambique, across generations, La Biba and La Santa have been major LGBTQ cultural representatives and have made art a place of possibility for the expression of dissident gender identities, building spaces for debate, tolerance and dialog with society through local media. Another peculiarity in La Santa's trajectory is the acceptance of her spiritual calling, as she recently trained as a healer with (AMETRAMO) Association of Traditional Doctors of Mozambique, broadcasting her graduation day on TV as a way of breaking down prejudices against her identities: transgender and healer (traditional doctor). The following interview is an opportunity to meet La Santa's memories, her achievements, dreams and challenges, told in the first person by an icon of Mozambique's LGBTQ community.
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