Community Collaborations
Bad Africans
Apr 10 2025 | 4 - 6pm
FREE
Weisman Art Museum

333 E River Road
Minneapolis, MN 55455
United States

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Bad Africans: a guide to being oshey and bardest in a f*cked up world is the 2025 selection for the Gender & Sexuality Center for Queer & Trans Life's annual Creative Expression program honoring Trans Day of Visibility.

The evening features a performance by Ibimina Dominique Thompson and panel conversation with guest artist, N'Yomi Stewart to follow.

Bad Africans is a multimedia ode to African queerness in the black diaspora that positions afrocentric queer forms of expression as fine art through a Gen-Z lens. The play follows a young African influencer and their need to go home whilst being unable to go back. We follow them through memories to find out what is the guide for an African in a white world? What is the role of the black influencer?

This play has mature language and is not intended for young audiences.

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Ibimina Dominique Thompson

A dark-skinned femme with long locs, earrings, and a cream-colored turtleneck vest.
About the Artist
Ibimina Dominique Thompson

Ibimina Dominique Thompson is a multi-hyphenate trans femme artist based in Minneapolis and New York. She is a DJ. She is represented by Pantera/Murphy, the Agency. Previous theaters include: the Guthrie, Artistry, Theater Latté Da, Jungle Theater, Playwrights’ Center, and Dr. Phillips Center for the Arts. Film work includes: Love is like…

Ibimina is grateful to all the family who have brought them forward thus far.

N’yomi Stewart

A medium-skinned Black woman with long, straight hair wears black rimmed glasses and a dark gray long sleeve shirt and leggings.
About the Artist
N’yomi Stewart
N’yomi Allure Stewart (she/her) is a multidisciplinary artist and community organizer hailing from South Carolina but based in New York City. N’yomi is the first black trans woman to graduate from the prestigious University of North Carolina School of the Arts Acting program receiving a B.F.A. and has since has worked at the Public Theater (Off-Broadway: Richard III, A Raisin in the Sun) and other notable theater companies. Stamping herself in NYC as an artist on the rise, N’yomi has been an artist in residence with GALLIM (Moving Artist Resident), New York Theater Workshop (Dartmouth & Adelphi), BTFA (Black Trans Femmes in the Arts), and recently the 2024 recipient of the Toulmin Fund. N’yomi was the Associate Director of NYC’s hottest show CATS: The Jellicle Ball where her DNA is engrained in not only the production but the process of the show. 

 

Outside of N’yomi’s work in the American Theatre she is a part of the NYC’s underground ballroom scene. One of the hottest new Fem Queen performers of her class, Omi got her start in NYC's kiki scene as a part of the Iconic House of Juicy Couture where she quickly made an imprint. With a talent and champion-like attitude, Omi also joined in the Iconic House of Balenciaga where she debuted and won at the Alpha Omega Ball having the hottest debut of that year in mainstream ballroom. In just three years, Omi has been recognized as the kiki scene's "Most Innovative," Princess of NYC's historic Pier, and as a teacher within her community. Cultivating a space of embraced femininity and vogue performance, Omi has taken her classes and knowledge to Atlanta, Toronto, Boston, New Jersey, and Europe (Norway) in addition to educational institutions like Columbia University and NYU.

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