Disability Justice Centering Intersectionality and Liberation

Patty Berne, co-founder and Executive Artistic Director of Sins Invalid, will discuss the importance of intersectionality in disability justice and the need to address how diverse systems of oppression reinforce each other. Ms. Berne’s work creates a framework and practice of disability justice, which centers the voices and experiences of disabled people who are often marginalized and oppressed in multiple ways.

Ms. Berne will be joining us remotely for this moderated conversation.

Patty Berne is the Co-Founder, Executive, and Artistic Director of Sins Invalid, a disability justice-based performance project centralizing disabled artists of color and queer and gender non-conforming artists with disabilities. Berne’s experiences as a Japanese-Haitian queer disabled woman provides grounding for her work creating “liberated zones” for marginalized voices.

Berne is widely recognized for their work to establish the framework and practice of disability justice which centers on intersectionality and how diverse systems of oppression amplify and reinforce…