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Patricia Berne is an author, artist, film director, disability justice organizer and co-founder of Sins Invalid, a disability justice-based performance project that incubates artists with disabilities, centralizing artists of color and LGBTQ/gender-variant artists.[1][2] They are a founder member of the disability justice movement.[3][4][5][6]
Career
editBerne is the Executive Director and Artistic Director of Sins Invalid and a Fellow of the Ford Foundation's Disability Futures Forum.[1][7] 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.[1][7]
Berne is a prolific contributor to the public discourse about disability justice.
References
edit- ^ a b c "Our Team". Sins Invalid. Retrieved 2020-12-05.
- ^ Kopit, Alison (2019-07-06). "Defiant Memory as Disability Justice: An Interview with Patty Berne of Sins Invalid". American Quarterly. 71 (2): 415–423. doi:10.1353/aq.2019.0036. ISSN 1080-6490. S2CID 198598506.
- ^ Piepzna-Samarasinha, Leah Lakshmi, 1975- (30 October 2018). Care work : dreaming disability justice. Vancouver. ISBN 978-1-55152-739-0. OCLC 1066114954.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ "Disability Justice Primer". Sins Invalid. Retrieved 2020-12-05.
- ^ Heller, Tamar; Harris, Sarah Parker; Gill, Carol; Gould, Robert (2018-12-31). Disability in American Life: An Encyclopedia of Concepts, Policies, and Controversies [2 volumes]. ABC-CLIO. ISBN 978-1-4408-3423-3.
- ^ Ray, Sarah Jaquette; Sibara, Jay (2017-06-01). Disability Studies and the Environmental Humanities: Toward an Eco-Crip Theory. U of Nebraska Press. ISBN 978-0-8032-7845-5.
- ^ a b "Disability Futures Fellows". Ford Foundation. Retrieved 2020-12-05.