Transgender actress and pose star is the front cover of V Magazine, headlining the magazine with her topless shoot.
In the latest cover of V Magazine, the star flaunts her fashionable nubs in celebration of the special edition for the cover. While she uses her creative ways to pose, she delves deeper into her childhood trauma and how it has affected her throughout her career.
Indya Moore, actress of FX Series “Pose,” plays the character named Angel Evangelista. The series presents an American drama series that touches on New York’s LGBTQ community of African American and Latino culture, implementing gender non-conforming drag ball culture in the 1980s and so forth.
Growing up, she had suffered child abuse and a crisis through her religious faith. As a kid, her religious faith emphasized how Moore was taught that it was ‘wrong for me to exist in the way that I do.’ She tells Adrienne Maree Brown, author, that she “chose peace and joy for myself at a very early point in my life.”
In modern day, the actress uses the pronouns “she/they” and has been open to her upbringing, albeit traumatic, with a Puerto Rican mom that grew up as a Jehovah’s witness and a Dominican Republic father that was brought up Catholic.
In making this breakthrough and having the opportunity to be the cover of V Magazine, Moore states, “Damn… I made it, you know? I am really happy to have made it. I’m surprised every day that I’ve made it. I’m really grateful and alive to be here.”
Mentioning her childhood, Moore was unable to present her true identity because she was punished frequently for presenting feminine traits and being feminine in general, since she was constantly pressured to stay masculine.
She thinks that “every queer person goes through a time of their life where they’re at crossroads…” trying to understand “what’s ‘right’ and ‘wrong’ kind of binary.” In the interview, Moore demonstrates the morality of the world and how there is internalized homophobia while people heavily criticize queerness.
Indya Moore has also had the opportunities to be on the cover of Elle, another renown magazine that has been spread out in print worldwide.point 227 |
Even with her understanding of religion, Moore rebels against the heteronormative stereotype of society, including her faith that was the reason for being punished for ‘not fitting into their gendered expectations.point 190 | ’point 197 | 1
The star addresses a heavy topic while being grateful for the shoot, exemplifying how her past has molded her to be who she is today.
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