Sins Invalid: An Unshamed Claim to Beauty in the Face of Invisibility

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This 90-minute webinar features a viewing of the Sins Invalid documentary followed by a moderated panel discussion. 

Sins Invalid: An Unshamed Claim to Beauty is a glimpse of the magic of Sins Invalid. This documentary explores issues of sexuality and gender, race and class, embodiment and disability in a powerful way. 

Sins Invalid witnesses a performance project that incubates and celebrates artists with disabilities, centralizing artists of color and queer and gender-variant artists. Since 2006, its performances have explored themes of sexuality, beauty, and the disabled body, impacting thousands through live performance. Sins Invalid is an entryway into the absurdly taboo topic of sexuality and disability, manifesting a new paradigm of disability justice.

We are excited to offer this webinar at no cost. If you would like to support future programming like this, you can make an optional gift to Sound Theatre Company during the registration process. 

Note that because of streaming rights, this webinar will not be recorded. 

Documentary Content Warnings: 

For Mature Audiences
Explicit Sexual Language
References to rape, forced sterilization
Depiction of intimate domestic assault against a disabled person

For a breakdown for content warnings with timestamps, click here.

Patricia Berne

PATRICIA BERNE is the Co-Founder, Executive Director and Artistic Director of Sins Invalid. Their experience as a Japanese-Haitian queer disabled woman provides grounding for their work creating “liberated zones” for marginalized voices. Patty was awarded the Disability Futures Fellowship in 2020 and is widely recognized as a leader in establishing the framework and practice of disability justice.

Nomy Lamm

NOMY LAMM is the Creative Director of Sins Invalid. Nomy is a multi-media artist, a singer, a writer, a riot grrrl, a Kohenet/Hebrew priestess, and a nonbinary femme who spends their time tending their fat disabled body and loving their partner Lisa in their home on Squaxin / Nisqually / Chehalis lands.

Maria Palacios

MARIA PALACIOS has been performing with Sins Invalid since 2007. She is a polio survivor, disability activist, feminist poet, mother, spoken word performer, artist and workshop facilitator, whose creative expression is a tool of her activism. Maria is the author of Poetic Confessions, Dressing Skeletons: A Poetic Tribute to Frida Kahlo, The Female King, and Criptionary: Disability Humor and Satire with Laura Fiscal and Mat Fraser. She was a featured artist for the ADA30 Lead On celebration, produced by DisArt.