Patricia Berne is an author, artist, film director, disability rights activist and co-founder of
Sins Invalid
Sins Invalid is a disability justice-based performance project that incubates artists with disabilities, centralizing artists of color and LGBTQ / gender-variant artists. Led by disabled people of color, Sins Invalid's performance work explores t ...
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disability justice
Disability justice is a social justice movement which focuses on examining disability and ableism as they relate to other forms of oppression and identity such as race, class and gender. It was developed in 2005 by the Disability Justice Collectiv ...
-based performance project that incubates artists with
disabilities
Disability is the experience of any condition that makes it more difficult for a person to do certain activities or have equitable access within a given society. Disabilities may be cognitive, developmental, intellectual, mental, physical, se ...
, centralizing
artists of color and
LGBTQ
' is an initialism that stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender. In use since the 1990s, the initialism, as well as some of its common variants, functions as an umbrella term for sexuality and gender identity.
The LGBT term is a ...
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gender-variant
Gender variance or gender nonconformity is behavior or gender expression by an individual that does not match masculine or feminine gender norms. A gender-nonconforming person may be variant in their gender identity, being transgender or non-bina ...
artists.
They are a founder member of the disability justice movement.
Career
Berne is the Executive Director and Artistic Director of Sins Invalid and a Fellow of the Ford Foundation's Disability Futures Forum.
Their work spans advocacy for immigrants and asylum seekers, community organising with the Haitian diaspora, supporting survivors of state and interpersonal violence through trauma focused clinical psychology, working alongside young people in the prison system to imagine alternatives to criminal legal systems and championing disability, and LGBTQI perspectives in reproductive genetic technologies.
Berne is a prolific contributor to the public discourse about disability justice.
References
External links
Sins Invalid official websiteDisability Visibility Project interview with Patty BerneCrip Bits: Dialogues on Liberation & the Body with Patricia Berne
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American disability rights activists
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people