Queer Animals: two short films with vegan drag cow and activist Soya the Cow

MOVIE + DISCUSSION

Cinema

Piet & Soya – a queer interspecies encounter (2025, by De Transketeers)
14 min

It is a warm summer day when Soya, the drag cow, and Piet, the intersex bull, meet each other for the first time in a meadow in Limburg, the Netherlands. "Piet & Soya" is a film about an encounter between two unlikely queer beings who, according to society's rigid gender norms, perhaps should not exist. It begins with Soya, the drag cow, who questions through performance both gender and our human-animal relationship. Soya is introduced to Piet, who was adopted as a small bull calf by cow-linguist Leonie. When Leonie hopes to save him from slaughter, she is in for a surprise...


De-Domestication (2026, by Vitor Souza Lima, Uhura Bqueer & Soya the Cow)
25 min

Two queer drag creatures –a cow from the Alps and a panther from the Amazon – set out on a journey through a world shaped by monocultures, cattle farming, and colonial violence, traveling from burnt forests to melting glaciers. Along the way, they move between ritual, protest, and unexpected encounters. "De-Domestication" is a poetic and political road movie, following the pop cow and the sacred jaguar as they celebrate transformation, freedom, and the power of rewilded imagination.