FOUNDER

Founder & Lifetime Board Member

Sulique Waqa is the Founder of the Haus of Khameleon, Creative Director and Lifetime Board Member. She is a young transgender feminist of Indigenous Fijian descent who has worked on LGBTIQ issues of the Pacific region for over 17 years, and has become one of the key players for advancing LGBTIQ rights in her home country Fiji. For ten years, Sulique has been at the helm of the Adi Senikau Pageant, the most prestigious transgender pageant in Fiji as its chief organizer and she sat as a member of the Vodafone Fiji Hibiscus Festival Committee under the Hibiscus Events Group Inc. In the past, Sulique served at the Asia Pacific Transgender Network (APTN) as a member of its Regional Steering Committee as well as the ILGA Oceania Board. In its first ever Board election, Sulique was elected to the FRIDA -Young Feminist Fund Board and has served for a term of 3 years. In 2020, Salty - an online feminist publishing platform named Sulique as one of the “Faces of the Global Resistance” from the Global South in its International Women’s Day edition.