Dacity - TRANS • FORM: Drag as Body, Archive, and Protest

A two-part performance gathering that approaches drag as a cultural practice, an embodied inquiry, and a living record of trans and queer life. Rather than positioning Drag as spectacle alone, the event frames it as a method — a way to hold memory, to trouble fixed ideas of gender, and to author new ways of being seen. The stage becomes a site of study and sensation, where the body functions as archive and performance as a form of knowledge.

The evening begins with a moderated conversation with The Dyzz Bytch Podcast featuring award-winning guest Pickle the Drag Queen, artists whose work traverses performance, politics, and community life. This dialogue is not designed as a didactic panel but as a reflective exchange: a space to consider how drag operates as strategy, survival, and aesthetic language. Their insights offer audiences an entry point into drag as a rigorous and intentional art form shaped by lived experience.

What follows is a sequence of performances by emerging trans and queer artists working acrossritual, movement, spoken word, and experimental drag. Each artist responds to the notion of the “trans form” — transformation understood as process rather than destination. Themes of dysphoria and euphoria, lineage and futurity, refusal and reinvention surface across the works, inviting a mode of attention that is patient, intimate, and interpretive.

Reach LA and The Sidewalk Project will table throughout the event, grounding the evening in material networks of care and advocacy.

In recognition that trans people are disproportionately impacted by homelessness and housing insecurity, a portion of ticket proceeds will be directed to The Sidewalk Project to support their ongoing, street-level work with unhoused and marginalized communities.

Trans · Form proposes drag as more than performance; it is a practice of world-making. By situating drag within an arts context that values experimentation and reflection, the event creates room for complexity, vulnerability, and critical imagination. What emerges is not only a show, but a shared encounter — one that treats gender as a creative field and liberation as an unfolding art.

Featured Performing Artists:

Dacity (they/them)

Dacity is an LA-based drag performer, writer, and LGBTQIA+ advocate whose work blends performance, storytelling, and queer world-building. Since debuting in 2023, Dacity received two California College Media Awards, released original music, launched the queer podcast Dyzz Bytch, and founded TRANS • FORM. With a background in journalism and political education, their work centers uplifting unheard queer voices and exploring identity through performance and media.

Trantula Vulnicura (she/it)

Trantula Vulnicura is an LA-based drag artist that loves to paint faces and trade, who centers authentic expression and rhizomatic self-discovery. Their artistry explores the intersection of queerness and Asian-American identity, outlining the tensions between filial piety and the Western ideals of individuality. 

Lavinia Vaudeville (she/they)

Lavinia Vaudeville is a drag artist in Los Angeles. Started drag their senior year of drag. An asexual lady non-binary latina vampiric creature abomination who evokes performances of fantasy and cinema. With themes of feeling like a stranger amongst strangers, seeking and failing at connection (but finding strength in one’s solitude and imagination).

Pestilence (it/any)

Pestilence is a multifaceted artist, interested in presenting Semi-Educational, Historically Inspired, Furry Adjacent Drag performances. Offstage Pestilence is pursuing a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology and Theatre at the University of Southern California. In addition to drag, it works frequently in the mediums of costume design, theatrical directing, ethnography, costume construction, and community facilitation. It is passionate about (among other things) fringe queer art, cultural diversity, costume history, and horses.

Tyra Durxn (any pronouns)

Tyra Durdxn is a Los Angeles-based drag creature who enjoys body horror, long walks on the beach, and bug watching. Recently featured in Transmag vol 2, they love storytelling and theatrically in all its forms, endeavoring to explore the far reaches of gender-space through transformative performance and dubiously ethical medical experimentation. 

Eppie Nephrine (she/her)

Eppie Nephrine is an LA-based drag queen who loves creating costumes almost as much as she loves dropping into a split. Her drag blends movement with detailed, self-made looks, using performance as both entertainment for others and as a celebration of her feminine identity. A Biomedical Engineer out of drag, she is also involved in nonprofit work, helping bridge the global equity gap in access to medical supplies. As a performer in West Hollywood and Los Angeles, Eppie hopes her drag connects modern queer art and LGBTQ history.

Featured Guest:

Pickle the Drag Queen (she/her)

Pickle is a live singing drag queen host, performer and educator. Most of her work is in the public sector, developing drag programs for kids and developing partnerships with public institutions such as the Natural History Museum, Public Libraries and municipalities. Pickle is the first Drag Laureate of the City of West Hollywood. She is a second grade teacher and loves to create music.