Afroqueer weekend with Evidens’
Designers' market and quick tours of the Mickalene Thomas exhibition
For a weekend at Les Abattoirs, the Evidens' association invites you to share with the Afroqueer community of Toulouse. On the program: a market featuring local designers and flash tours of the exhibition “Mickalene Thomas. All about love.”
In dialogue with the exhibition dedicated to the work of African-American queer artist Mickalene Thomas, this cultural, committed, and festive event celebrates the intersection of Afro-descendant and queer* identities. Through the celebration of creativity and an invitation to share a perspective on the work of Mickalene Thomas, the members of the Evidens' association, in dialogue with the Les Abattoirs team, are committed to the visibility and promotion of Afroqueer** identities in the public sphere and the fight against discrimination, which is still present in 2025.
Programme
Saturday 4 October: market featuring local designers, accompanied by a food stand for young and old alike.
In the reception area, free admission.
Discover the following at the stands:
@_fibtr_: illustrations, embroidery, wood and clay painting
@loozanar_: pyrography, posters, illustrations
@brigitte.odono: linocut, drawing, clay painting
@la_Feelicie: textile design, poetry, linocuts
@nixo.art: pixel artist
@misart_02: beadwork, crochet embroidery
@the.redme: fashion design
Sunday 5 October: guided tours of the exhibition ‘Mickalene Thomas. All about love’ by Kagny and Dgémael, members of the Evidens' association, who will provide insight into the history of the Afroqueer community and its current development.
Access upon presentation of the exhibition entrance ticket.
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Evidens’ is a Toulouse-based association created in 2024 by and for Afroqueer people. Its goal is to work for the visibility and rights of these individuals, to enable the sharing and celebration of their different cultures and communities, and to celebrate the intersection of identities through events that reflect who they are.
Queer: a word derived from English meaning ‘strange,’ ‘odd,’ ‘maladjusted,’ and initially used as an insult towards LGBT+ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender) people. It was reappropriated and given new meaning by the LGBTQIA+ community in the context of the fight against the AIDS epidemic in the late 1980s. It is now used to positively assert divergence from binary heterosexual and cisgender norms. The term queer embodies a political demand for collective struggle against normative regulations and relationships of domination linked to gender, sexuality and the sexualised body.
Afroqueer: this term refers to people who are both of African descent and queer.