Something filthy, twisted and cryptid is brewing in the underbelly of America.
The White Trash Bash, starring Boulet Brothers’ Dragula and Boulet Brothers’ Dragula: Titans uglies Abhora and Priscilla Chambers, is kicking off a 14-city tour showcasing their drag-as-performance-art terror right here in Orlando this weekend. Yee-haw!
These two monsters — and drag sisters — have hitched their trailers to spread wickedness along the East Coast, with a brand-new show following a family riddled with debauchery and summertime filth and foolery. The name of the show aside, the pair plan to use these events as a platform to uplift non-white voices and artists. Chambers says that the plan is to donate 20 percent of the proceeds from each show to a nonprofit.
“When I came up with this idea and pitched it to Abhora, I was like, ‘I want to give back to anyone who is not a fucking white person,’” Chambers tells Orlando Weekly. “If I can do anything to support POC trans individuals, that’s my No. 1 thing because of my privilege as a white person, and I want to do something with this platform that I have.”
The touring headliners will be joined at Conduit by Chambers’ drag daughters Calcutta and Reptillian Anderson, as well as local openers Davi Oddity and Lady Brii Adonis. Chambers emphasized the importance of featuring local POC individuals and artists on each stop of the Bash.
Abhora, a Miami native, credits some of the show’s aesthetic inspiration to the tacky, nostalgic nature of their home state.
“We’re starting in Florida because that’s where I grew up and that’s what I’m familiar with. Flamingo decals, gators, the Florida Lottery and all the airbrushed T-shirts on the beach are some of the things we wanted to incorporate into this show,” Abhora says. “We’ll be going up and down the coast and just bringing out the cornucopia of white trash culture and celebrating the grossest parts of every part of this fucked-up colony.”
Chambers also draws inspiration from the South, specifically Florida’s own Hayden Silas Anhedönia, better known as Ethel Cain, crediting Cain as her muse in an Instagram post on the fourth anniversary of the artist’s debut album, Preacher’s Daughter. “That woman is the most precious woman in the world to me. With art, especially as a trans person making art, you have to make people uncomfortable and I like making people uncomfortable if it’s for the right reason. And that’s what her music’s about,” says Chambers.
For both Abhora and Chambers, their art and drag centers on overcoming and confronting the uncomfortable: assault, abuse, drug addiction, social ignorance. Chambers became acquainted with Abhora back when she was 18, meeting the latter after moving to Asheville.
“She kind of forced me to get in drag at gunpoint. She was like, ‘Hey you, gonna make you some hip pads and you gonna go out there and dance, girl. You’re gonna make it, honey.’ So we’ve been friends for a decade now,” says Chambers. In Asheville, Chambers and Abhora found they were bored with the local drag scene. The two wanted to do more “spooky shit” and alternative looks, while the mainstream only wanted polished pageant acts.
“We always had these ideas that were like, ‘Hey, what if I came out with a submachine gun and just shot the audience. You think they’re going to like that?’” Abhora says.
The punk, horror-centric deviant underbelly of drag was fomenting out there, but it didn’t have a name yet when the two were getting their start, Abhora explains. Still, this did not deter them from striving for alternative styles and characters.
“We just wanted to really create and craft these characters rather than just be a generic drag queen, just shoving three names together and wearing a different color leotard than the last girl. We’re basically just the negative versions of Trixie and Katya,” Abhora says.
Chambers and Abhora note that regardless of their deviation from traditional drag, their audiences, who have all come from different walks of life, have been positive and receptive to their performances and creativity.
To them, the scene is not limited to any small pool of identities, including those considered of the heteronorm.
“I don’t like the word ‘heteronormative.’ It’s ignorant, and ignorant is not a bad word. It’s just a lack of knowledge — we’re all ignorant. It’s our job to educate ourselves on what we do, and that is the biggest reason why I wanted to do this tour,” explains Abhora. “What it boils down to is we —Priscilla and I — feel we don’t have to change who we are. No one should.”
WHITE TRASH BASH: 8 p.m. Saturday, July 18; Conduit, 6700 Aloma Ave., Winter Park; conduitfl.com; $33.16-$73.30.
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This article appears in July 15-21, 2026.