LAFAYETTE VALENTINE

they/them

birth date: 1999

183 cm

non-binary

amab

London



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photo: Carys Huws
photo: Carys Huws

what are you really good at?

improvising, gaming, joking, climbing (if need be)

what do you do besides modelling?

other than modelling, i act. i've been a professional actor for around 11 years now. day to day, i work with children, i currently work in a library with special educational needs children and encourage them to explore social skills. i'm dabbling in writing and creating and i'm also a member of the ballroom community, i walk face

who are your lgbtqia+ role models?

so many. Black queer leftists like James Baldwin or Marsha P Johnson as well as my own friends, i look up to them a lot even though we're equals

what makes you get out of bed in the morning?

what gets me put of bed in the morning is the hope that one day we don't make decisions out of fear and survival but can explore ourselves freely and don't work just to get by but because we want to or to make things we care about

anything else you want people to know?

i love cutesy domestic things, plants, cooking, candles. i aspire to have a pet turtle one day