Miz Jade

Miz Jade is a Black- queer drag performer, event host, and professional dancer. A queen known for her teaching, activism, and quick wit, she's bound to gag you and turn the party. Known throughout NYC, Miz Jade has been described as fierce, sensual, sophisticated, and full of surprises. Miz Jade has been nominated for ‘Best Dance Performer’ at the Glam Awards. She was also nominated for ‘Queen Of The Year’ and ‘Best Performer’ at the Brooklyn Nightlife Awards.

Website: https://www.mizjade.com/
Instagram: @MizJade_Davon
TikTok: MizJade_Davon
Twitter: MizJade_Davon

Photo by Travis Magee

Daphne Always

Seikilos Epitaph

The Seikilos Epitaph is one of the oldest written pieces of western music, dated to the 1st or 2nd century CE. In this piece, Daphne has translated the original Greek into Latin, the Latin into Italian, and the Italian into English, to breathe new life into the ancient song. The music has also been adapted across the centuries by Daphne's musical collaborator, James Sheppard. Her performance features music, vocals, and dance.

Daphne Always (née Sumtimez) is a Downtown New York cabaret personality, musician, hostess, actor and model. Her shows blend music, philosophy, laughter, and storytelling to create spaces for moments of emotional disarmament among strangers, celebration of the human spirit, and lovingly critical self-reflection.

"Night-life mainstay performer" - The New York Times
"Exceedingly charming chanteuse and Club Cumming cult favorite" - Time Out

Instagram: @daphne_always
Website: daphnealways.com
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/daphnealways

Photo by Catalina Kulczar

Munroe Lilly

Aeon Flux

Music starts. She enters. She dances and strips. music ends. :)

Munroe Lilly is like a flame burning in a dark room. Twisting and gyrating to her own bonfire hymn, a lone incandescence. For many years, Munroe has been incinerating stages all over New York City. The black diamond, rare and beautiful, an unstoppable force of love magic you’re destined to devour.

Instagram: @Munroelilly

Photo by Lanee Bird

Theydy Bedbug

doom scroll

A zoom troll in the age of the doom scroll, trapped in a cycle of iphone overindulgence. Through lip sync, movement, poetry and video projection, Theydy (in collaboration with beefcake) explores the sensation of being stuck inside our cellphones, more connected but less affected. This body is evolving to grip our devices more often than hold lovers' hands; what must that do to connection and can we break out of it? Escape clean through screen cracks?

Theydy Bedbug is a draqlesque creature, Mx. Brooklyn 2019, and “the bug bite you beg for.” Since 2016 they have infested drag and burlesque spaces to question gender norms, subvert form, community fundraise, and queer the kids. In them, femininity and masculinity, drag and performance art, poetry and clowning coexist in harmony, in discord, and in the erotic. They facilitate a virtual adult class, “Drag Performance: Between & Beyond Gender” through BAX | Brooklyn Arts Exchange, which focuses on developing drag characters that expand what it means to be a drag queen, king, thing, between or beyond what we’ve seen.

"wondrously sympathetic" -The New York Times

Instagram: @theydy.bedbug
Website: https://www.kelindahbee.art/abouttheydy

Bibingka Mama

Drag Queen Performer and Chef

Bibingka Mama is a drag queen performer who enjoys showcasing her Filipino Culture through food and performance art. When she's not on stage she is vending at local NY pop-up markets selling her favorite Filipino dishes.

Bibingka Mama is a Pinay Drag Queen, Baker, Songwriter, and Entertainer, serving Filipino cuisine with a funky twist. Their signature dish, Bibingka, is an ooey-gooey, coconutty Filipino rice cake dessert. After perfecting the family recipe, Bibingka Mama realized that most Americans weren’t familiar with Bibingka and decided to begin building an empire to share the Filipino culture through food and entertainment. They began selling these delicious rice cakes derived and modified from their family recipe at local New York Pop-up events. Their goal is to share the Filipino culture and food with the world.

Website: www.bibingkamama.com
Instagram: @bibingkamama
Tik Tok: @bibingka.mama

Photo courtesy of Bush Wig

Oliver Herface

The Fight of the Century

TW: Transphobia, Excessive Binding, Dysphoria, Punching self

Ladies, gentlemen, and those of us who know better... welcome to the fight of the century!

In this corner weighing in at 250 pounds is the scary, the fabulous, the asthmatic... Oliver Herface!

Oliver Herface fights in one of the biggest matches of his life! He must battle his dysphoria, his family, and the transphobia from within his own community to fight to be himself. He fights to love his nonbinary body without alteration and to be seen as he truly is. In this boxing match set to Boy Division by My Chemical Romance we see Oliver fight some tough opponents and he leaves victorious!

Oliver Herface is the nasty, punk, queer coded cartoon villain of your wet nightmares! He is a non-binary latine drag king from NY. He enjoys stim toys, bad music and plotting his world domination. Prepare to question your sexuality (and sanity) with his grotesque high energy performances.

Instagram: @Oliver_Herface

Photo by Krishna Arjoon Harilal @kryshalis_

Vigor Mortis

SHE: issue 3, volume 9 How to Hand-le it

Vigor Mortis and Atticus Stevenson have collaborated on what they've fondly dubbed a "video zine" about trying to find some magic in a life that has not found space for it. Using a combination of drag, props, and animation, they tell the story of a tired working person, looking for something more, and finding inspiration in an intergalactic being.

Vigor Mortis is a nonbinary drag king. They have been a proud member of the queer drag and burlesque collective Switch n' Play since 2015. They have performed everywhere from living rooms to Terminal 5, and appeared in several film projects. They are a multimedia maker, death and loss doula, and beeswax candle enthusiast. The most important of thanks for this piece goes to my beautiful brother Atticus Stevenson, who filmed, edited, and animated this video zine. I am unbelievably grateful for your patience, your immense skill, and your willingness to roll with my weird ideas. This is truly a collaboration, and it would have never ever happened without you.

""...without a doubt one of the most sorrowful and exquisite performances in Nightgowns history."- Stephen Daw for Billboard

Instagram: @heyvigormortis

Photo by Mettie Ostrowski

nadav schwartzman

portraits

nadav schwartzman is a painter residing and working in brooklyn.

www.nadavschwartzman.com

Spindarella

Circa 1992

Trigger Warning: Domestic Violence

Performance of an excerpt of John Leguizamo’s “Manny the Fanny” from his 1991 special “Mambo Mouth”. This performance is a tribute to the girls in the 90s.

Spindarella is a fabulous fusion of drag and vogue. The voguing diva of Brooklyn night life, Spindarella aims to bring authentic voguing to drag spaces.

“It's called a dip, not a deathdrop.”

Instagram: @spindarellasofab