Intersectionality: Queerness and Migration (EN/NL)

Tussen de Soep & de Feiten

Cette activité se tiendra en anglais, avec traduction en direct vers le néerlandais.

Please note: soup exceptionally starts at 12:00 and the discussion at 12:15

Sharpen your mind at lunchtime with hot topics and a warm bowl of (vegetarian) soup. Engaging speakers explore current issues from a Brussels perspective. Complex topics are explained in an accessible way. Afterwards, there’s time for questions and comments from the audience. Food for the body and mind, every first Tuesday of the month!

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Intersectionality: Queerness and migration

Let’s talk about intersectionality, queerness, and migration, leading up to Pride Brussels on the 16th of May. We do not start from a single perspective, but explore how queer identities and migration experiences intersect with, and are shaped by, context, power, and access to spaces.

Across Europe, migration policies are becoming more strict, and rights are under growing pressure. This raises important questions: Who is given space? Under what conditions? And which identities are recognized? What does visibility mean in contexts that can also exclude?

Join us in reflecting on the complexity of queerness beyond a universal perspective. Take part in an open and critical dialogue with the diverse voices on the panel.

About the speakers

Belgian-Mexican-Colombian zinneke Majo is a freelance performer and teacher. Their performances focus on the body and expressiveness. The artist has a passion for variety and challenge, and works for audiences of all ages through cabaret, circus, dance, physical theatre, burlesque, and nightlife. They teach (Brussels Arts and Pole studio), coach (creative projects, Cirklabo Leuven), and guest teach (artistic support Personal Projects and Practice-Based Research, Circus and Performance bachelor, Fontys Academy of the Arts, Tilburg).

Sanele Mwelase, originally from South Africa, studied lyrical singing (University of Cape Town) and has won several international singing competitions, such as International Neue Stimmen (semi-finalist, 2022) and International Hans Gabor Belvedere Singing Competition (2023). They debuted at La Monnaie (revival of ‘Ali’, 2025) and received the Opera Europa Eva Kleinitz Scholarship. Sanele studies at Erasmushogeschool Brussel, School of Arts Royal Conservatory of Brussels, and is part of the MM Academy (La Monnaie).

Sherine Falasteen is a Palestinian community builder, space generator, and drag-activist. Their work focuses on creating open and respectful spaces for culture, identity, and community. They are passionate about bringing people together and giving underrepresented voices a louder platform. They are honored to speak on stageabout the intersections between culture, queerness, and belonging – life experiences that deserve visibility, dignity, and acknowledgement.

Fran C. Bracho (moderator) is a Belgo-Venezuelan art historian and socio-cultural worker who is active within various diaspora networks in Brussels, Flanders and Europe. She specializes in intersectional methodology and the history of ‘otherness’ — themes that form the core of her work and reflections.

In collaboration with De Munt/ La Monnaie, with vocals by Sanele.

Practical info

Welcome from 12:00 onwards for a bowl of vegetarian soup in collaboration with Atelier Groot Eiland

The panel starts at 12:15

Afterwards, there is time for a Q&A with the audience

Registration is recommended, but not mandatory