Patricia Berne Explained
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
Berne is the Executive Director and Artistic Director of Sins Invalid and a Fellow of the Ford Foundation's Disability Futures Forum.[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.
Berne is a prolific contributor to the public discourse about disability justice.
References
- Web site: Our Team. 2020-12-05. Sins Invalid. en-US.
- Kopit. Alison. 2019-07-06. Defiant Memory as Disability Justice: An Interview with Patty Berne of Sins Invalid. American Quarterly. en. 71. 2. 415–423. 10.1353/aq.2019.0036. 198598506. 1080-6490.
- Book: Piepzna-Samarasinha, Leah Lakshmi, 1975-. Care work : dreaming disability justice. 30 October 2018 . 978-1-55152-739-0. Vancouver. 1066114954.
- Web site: Disability Justice Primer. 2020-12-05. Sins Invalid. en-US.
- Book: Heller. Tamar. Disability in American Life: An Encyclopedia of Concepts, Policies, and Controversies [2 volumes]]. Harris. Sarah Parker. Gill. Carol. Gould. Robert. 2018-12-31. ABC-CLIO. 978-1-4408-3423-3. en.
- Book: Ray. Sarah Jaquette. Disability Studies and the Environmental Humanities: Toward an Eco-Crip Theory. Sibara. Jay. 2017-06-01. U of Nebraska Press. 978-0-8032-7845-5. en.
- Web site: Disability Futures Fellows. 2020-12-05. Ford Foundation. en.
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