presents
Diva Dudes Live Audience Podcast
Date: Friday | 11/21/25
Doors open @ 6:30pm | Event starts @ 7pm
Run Time: 1.5 hours | 10 minute intermission | dance party to follow 8:30 – 10pm
WHAT TO EXPECT
DIVA DUDES PODCAST
ABOUT THE DIVA DUDES
KOCHINA RUDE: [HE/HIM or SHE/HER] Kochina Rude is a drag queen and internationally recognized harm reduction advocate based in Oakland, California. Armed with a harm femme “do-it-yourself” attitude and over a decade of experience in SF nightlife, Kochina’s work blends activism and performance at the intersection of punk, drag, and public health in her role as a drag artist. In 2021, she established a one-of-a-kind Narcan distribution project at weekly drag show Princess, which has since provided thousands of free doses of naloxone to partygoers and impacted overdose prevention education in nightlife spaces nationwide. Her work has been recognized in public health campaigns, news publications, conferences, the White House, and more.
IN COLLABORATION WITH
Magdalena More! (Wailana Simcock) (all pronouns) was born in the Philippines and raised in Hawai‘i. He speaks Tagalog and ‘ōlelo Hawai‘i. He first moved to San Francisco from Hawai‘i in the mid 1990’s when he became principal dancer for cultural activist and choreographer Pearl Ubungen. Since then, he has also become a vertical dancer, textile artist and certified massage therapist. He also teaches yoga and loves to surf when he can. He earned an MFA in Dance from the University of Hawai‘i in 2016. After 17 years living back in Hawai‘i, he moved back here to San Francisco, homeland of the Yelamu people, in 2017. He is currently a core dancer and teaching artist not only for the influential dance-theater company Joe Goode Performance Group, but for the global innovator of vertical dance, BANDALOOP. Here in the Bay, Wailana has performed with Kunstoff, KAMBARA + Dancers, Steamroller, and Fogbeast. In Hawai’i he has performed for Tau Dance Theater, Samadhi Hawaii, IONA, and in the ground-breaking production of ‘Ulalena. Wailana has recently presented his solo work, Kapit Sa Patalim (2025) at CounterPulse and the Annex. Wailana moonlights as Magdalena More! every now and then and considers herself a baby drag queen – even though she is over 51,000 years old – mabuhay!
WHAT IS DRAG @ THE ANNEX?
Drag as Sacred, Healing, and Empowering
DRAG | Divination, Rainbows & Glitter is strutting back into the Annex with a new season of exciting offerings: a live audience podcast, movement workshop, performances and DJ dance party.
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Centering Black, Indigenous, and People of Color
We Have Always Existed
At its heart, this program is a celebration—a lifting up of BIPOC ancestral knowledge and voices. It’s about remembering, honoring and embodying indigenous understandings of sex and gender that existed long before western drag. From the revered Two-Spirit people of Turtle Island, to the Bakla of the Philippines, to the Māhū of Hawai’i and beyond—these are not just identities, but lineages of wisdom, resilience, and spirit.
What can we learn from our ancestors that speaks to who we are today? How do their truths help shape our liberation?
This isn’t just entertainment—it’s ceremony. It’s storytelling. It’s culture in motion. The Annex is a space where culture bearers remix, reclaim, and reimagine drag in ways them mainstream might never show you. It’s where tradition meets innovation, where joy becomes resistance, and where our histories come alive on our own terms. Come witness. Come celebrate. Come remember.
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A Drag Laboratory of Possibility
Nature is Queer
Think of the Annex and this program as a Drag Institute – but with more glitter. Through different workshops, podcasts, events and experiments, we’re cracking drag open—examining it as personal expression, cultural inheritance, and political imagination.
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What We Do (and Werk!)
● Research & Development: digging into drag’s intersections with history, identity, and community.
● Honoring Culture Bearers: spotlighting the elders, legends, and culture shapers who keep drag alive.
● Community Dialogue: holding space for conversation, critique, and connection.
● Education: showing audiences that drag isn’t just performance—it’s cultural theory with a contour since time immemorial.
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DRAG @ the Annex is redefining what drag can mean: from late-night spectacle to everyday brilliance. It’s drag as scholarship, drag as ritual, drag as resistance, drag as love. Come ready to learn, laugh, and maybe leave with a little more glitter than you arrived with.
On the right side, there are two circular photos with bright yellow borders:
● The top photo shows a performer with platinum blonde hair, dramatic eye makeup, and earrings. The name “Kochina Rude” appears next to this image in bold pink letters.
● The bottom photo shows a performer with long black hair, curled bangs, bold makeup, and red lipstick, wearing hoop earrings and a gold chain. The name “Princess Panocha” appears beside this image in matching pink text.