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Moe Laga-Fa'aofo (born January, 1991) or known as Mistress Supreme Coven-Aucoin, born and raised in South Auckland, Aotearoa. Laga is a interdisciplinary artist, creative, member of the queer collective FAFSWAG and overall Mother of the ballroom house Coven-Aucoin.

Biography
Laga is an artist and creative from South Auckland, graduating with a diploma from the Pacific Institution of Performing Arts and completing her bachelor of Creative Arts at Manukau Institute of Technology. Laga's practice includes a large number of stage (Neon Bootleg, Inferno, Femslick) and screen productions (Baby Mamas Club), as well as a collaborative visual arts work that has been shown in Australia and at the Pingyao International Photography Festival in China.

She has also been part of the LGBT arts collective FAFSWAG, established in 2013 as an informal Queer arts collective from south Auckland. Responding to the lack of representation within the creative industries, the collective has come to redefine what it means to occupy a fluid sexuality & gender spectrum, a multi-cultural identity and a growing interdisciplinary practice.

The images are playful, but also raise questions about how gender and sexuality are stereotyped – issues Laga has faced since she began identifying as a woman three years ago.

Sexuality is a hard topic to discuss in some Pacific Island families, she says. "It's very taboo. My family wouldn't talk about the fact I was transitioning. I can say I haven't gone and sat down with my family and been like, 'Hey, I want to be a woman.' They saw it happening, but they chose to ignore it. We just don't talk about it. My mum still calls me son." Art is Laga's way of articulating these difficult conversations.

Laga is the overall Mother of the ballroom house of Coven-Aucoin in Aotearoa. She is one of 3 leading mothers of well known ballrooom houses in Aotearoa with Jaycee Tanuvasa, overall mother of the house of Iman; and Falenice Filipo, overall mother of the house of Aitu.