Today we’d like to introduce you to Daisy Chainz.
Hi Daisy , thanks for sharing your story with us. To start, maybe you can tell our readers some of your backstory.
In the summer of 2025 I decided I would finally put for the energy, time and love into drag. I have a background in theater, and dance and dabbled in makeup since I could hold a brush. I love performance and I love concept art in all its forms. Daisy became an outlet where I could express a lot of the emotional turmoil, past trauma and love for all these things into one powerhouse medium. I am by no means of fully realized drag artist but I am on the journey and learning and creating one rhinestone healed step at a time.
We all face challenges, but looking back would you describe it as a relatively smooth road?
Absolutely not. To perform you have to be vulnerable and I’ve taken a lot of blows recently and in my past that made being vulnerable and expressive and the way I craved difficult. My father passed July of 2025. We did not have a relationship at the time of his passing. But his passing and the subsequent emotional purgatory it sent me into caused me to tailspin out of control. I was hospitalized about a year ago due do my CPTSD and other mental health diagnoses that caused me to go into a powerful bout of psychosis. During the process my close relationships were stressed. I even lost a deep 10 year friendship due to the severity and intensity of that event. During this time, my drag was placed on the back burner. My confidence was completely dashed but one of the first things I did after coming out of the hospital was perform. I still had the bruises on both my arms from where doctors forcibly took my blood. It was shaky and definitely not one of my best performances, but what made all the difference was continuing to put myself out there at my lowest. Not giving up and continuing to draw strength from my creativity.
Thanks for sharing that. So, maybe next you can tell us a bit more about your work?
This is a difficult question, because when I was reached out to form this publication regarding my drag, I was taking a back. I am very new to the drag world, and in my opinion have accomplished very little. I am still forming my identity as a drag artist and have only been cast in a handful of shows if that. Outside of drag I am very interested in becoming a dance therapist practitioner. Creativity and movement are two things that are very close to my heart and have been a game changer for me and moving through some of the hardest things that I have encountered in life.
As far as my drag goes, it started off as a hobby. Something that I could pour my time my creativity and often some of the trauma I’ve experienced and transmute it into something positive that strengthens me, instead of depletes me. My drag character is the embodiment of female sexual rage. I was inspired by the horror concept of the final girl. Or the “hot girl who you expect to die in the first five minutes of the slasher but who ultimately fights her way through against all odds and often kills the killer”. The underdog Survivor, that everyone underestimates who ultimately becomes the hero of her own story. She was born from my own anger, my own experience with being taken advantaged of and how I wish to reframe that narrative and come out on top as the master of my own story.
One of the things that I’m very proud of about my drag is that I embroider red beads onto my costuming as blood. I’m very fascinated in the ways that we assign severity to physical damage over emotional damage. We still seem to treat the wounds we can see over the ones we cannot but both leave lasting effects on us. So I turn a lot of the bodily evidence those wounds, like blood, into a visual aspect of my drag. Eventually, I wanna play more with images like ghost face, and incorporate, bones and body parts walking the line of glamor and gore. There are a lot of talent of people in the drag scene. But if I had to pick something that I think that sets me apart from a lot of the alt drag creatures that exist in the Austin scene right now. I would pick my blood embroidery.
I’m like if a marionette puppet and Sidney Prescott was a hyper fem queer drag queen. And I think that’s pretty awesome..
If we knew you growing up, how would we have described you?
I was a really spunky kid. Naturally sarcastic darkly funny, and always a bit peculiar. A lot of adults would refer to me as being an old soul, which really just translates to “severely traumatized but sure copes well”
I think a lot of the work that I’m doing now is to return back to that kid. The kid who knew exactly who she was and wasn’t afraid to speak her mind about the things that she believed in and the things that she knew needed to change.
As an adult, I feel like a lot of of that has been beaten out of me. I was molested as a child and went through a fair amount of emotional abuse as a kid. Going through those things really separated me from being a child. I was forced to grow up too quickly.
Everything that I do now is to make that little girl proud of me and keep her safe and let her know it’s ok to let her freak flag fly.
Pricing:
- Nope! Just follow my Instagram give it some love interact with posts and come to shows. Oh and bring those dollar bills and support Austin local drag!
Contact Info:
- Instagram: @ms.chainz
