#sins invalid

[this-world-of-beautiful-monsters]

Maria Palacias, Cara Page, Mat Fraser, Lateef McLeod, Maria Palacias, Nomy Lamm, Leroy F. Moore, Antoine Hunter, NEVE, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, and India Harville in various stills from performances art pieces organized by Sins Invalid, 2008-2016. Photographs by Richard Downing, courtesy of Sins Invalid.

Sins Invalid is a disability justice-driven performing arts center organized by and for queer, disabled people of color. Founded in 2006 by Leroy Moore and Patty Berne (RIP), photographed below (photograph from Amal Kouttab, courtesy of Sins Invalid).

All photographs and relevant information from Crip Kinship: The Disability Justice and Arts Activism of Sins Invalid.

[sainte666]

Today (Nov 19) is the last day of a free stream of Sins Invalid's 2024 performance of Stages of Grief: Crip Hearts on Fire. I really wanted to share this especially as I wrestle with my own grief and rage as a disabled person living in 2025.

You can register online from their website. Available (also with captions) in English, ASL, and Spanish with audio descriptions also available in each language. The runtime is about 1 hour 45 mins depending on the version you wish to watch.

Directly from Sins Invalid:

We are honored to invite you to the virtual release of Stages of Grief: Crip Hearts on Fire, Sins Invalid’s 2024 live performance, marking 18 years of crip brilliance on stage.

Through scenes of crip rage, joy, and grief, our performers offer testimony to survival, love, and collective power in a world on fire. From climate chaos to systemic ableism, from our sacred grief to our revolutionary visions of liberation, this performance is both an offering and a call to action.

The performance features pieces by: Tré Vasquez, María Palacios, Nomy Lamm, Germán Parodi, Lateef McLeod and Antoine Hunter and Urban Jazz Dance Company.

This release is dedicated to the memory of our beloved Patty Berne, co-founder of Sins Invalid, visionary artist, and architect of Disability Justice, whose brilliance continues to guide us towards access, interdependence, and collective liberation.

To access both streaming and Q&A, please register through the links in our website and Instagram bio.

[laurellynnleake]

SINS INVALID

"Our grief is full of rage. It is a portal to new worlds where the ashes of loss become the fertile ground on which we bloom. Together, interdependent."

Queer Disability Justice performance project SINS INVALID honors the passing of their co-founder Patty Berne with this free digital streaming of their 2024 performance Stages of Grief: Crip Hearts on Fire.

"Through scenes of crip rage, joy, and grief, our performers offer testimony to survival, love, and collective power in a world on fire. From climate chaos to systemic ableism, from our sacred grief to our revolutionary visions of liberation, this performance is both an offering and a call to action."

Spanish and English captions and ASL provided.

Streaming today through November 19 - fill out a short form to watch here: www.sinsinvalid.org

Video description: A preview of different clips from Sins Invalid's 2024 live performance Stages of Grief: Crip Hearts on Fire. Captions in English.

Transcript:

"As I glimpse the world, a world literally on fire, with bloodshot eyes, and a tear that makes a trail down my cheek. The things I see today

I thought I would never see.

Emergency alerts that we can't access.

Evacuation plans that don't include us.

Shelters that aren't equipped for our needs.

Who the fuck

gives you the right

to decide

the value

of a life?"

[bookquotesfrombooks]

“Grounded in the fifth principle of Disability Justice, wholeness advocates that disabled bodyminds are not defective, incomplete, or lacking, as the medical model of disability would have us believe. This principle unsettles how we define wholeness from ableist and capitalist synonyms like productivity and success and instead asks us to crip, queer, and decolonize wholeness.”

Shayda Kafai

Crip Kinship

[pixie-stick-it-to-the-man]

Patty Berne died 😭😭😭

They developed the 10 principles of the disability justice movement. This is such a massive loss for the community.

[thenervebible]

excerpt from KINDLING: Writings on the Body by Aurora Levins Morales

as seen in SKIN, TOOTH & BONE: the basis of movement is our people (a disability justice primer) by Sins Invalid

[pdf below]

[essayists-collective]

🐙🔵

[anarchagland]

“The Recently released Second Edition of Skin, Tooth, and Bone: The Basis of Movement is Our People is a Disability Justice Primer based in the work of Patty Berne and Sins Invalid. The Disability Justice Primer offers concrete suggestions for moving beyond the socialization of ableism, such as mobilizing against police violence, how to commit to mixed ability organizing, and access suggestions for events. Skin, Tooth, and Bone offers analysis, history and context for the growing Disability Justice Movement. The Second Edition includes the addition of a section on Audism and Deafhood written and edited by members of the D/deaf community, and a Call to Action from Survivors of Environmental Injury, as well as disability justice timelines, an extensive glossary, and a resource list for learning more. Visit our store to purchase a downloadable interactive PDF or hard copy that you can hold in your hands!”