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sins invalid: october 2-4, san francisco
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September 20th, 2009announcements, disability justicewoke up this morning to find articles about patty berne (a force behind sins invalid) & leah lakshmi piepzna-samarasinha (mangos with chili superstar) in my google reader. this is what disability justice looks like & queer disabled people of color are forging fire so watch out yall…
announcement below is from leroy & the sins invalid crew! if you are in the san francisco area, don’t miss this:
4th annual –
Sins Invalid: An Unshamed Claim to Beauty in the Face of Invisibility
Friday, October 2nd 2009 @ 8 pm
Saturday, October 3rd 2009 @ 8 pm (ASL Interpreted by Stage Hands)
Sunday, October 4th 2009 @ 7 pm
Brava Theater
San Francisco
2789 24th Street at York
Sins Invalid is a performance event celebrating the power of embodiment and the tenderness of struggle, stripping taboos off of sexuality and disability and offering a vision of beauty that includes all bodies and all communities. Join Sins Invalid as a night of resistance to invisibility!
Artists include:
Aurora Levins Morales
Cara Page
Antoine Hunter
Mat Fraser
John Benson
Maria Palacios
Ralph Dickinson
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Nomy Lamm
Todd Herman
Leroy F. Moore Jr.
Seeley Quest
Patty Berne
Supported by the Aepoch Fund, the San Francisco Arts Commission and the Zellerbach Family Foundation
Wheelchair accessible. Although we cannot guarantee a scent free environment, we ask that people please refrain from using scented products.
Please Note: Show contains explicit content
Tickets are available at www.brownpapertickets.com and for cash at the door on a first-come-first-served basis.
For more info please call 510-689-7198
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cripchick
Cripchick is a queer disabled corean-american living and loving in North Carolina. Cripchick is a 22 year old youth organizer who has been working in the youth arm of the Disability Rights Movement since high school. She is most interested in using poetry, community organizing and media as a way to cut through isolation that marginalized people often face. Cripchick is a radical woman of color feminist and believes in the power of people coming together.
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A Few Projects Cripchick Is Involved With
Cripchick is facilitating a satellite campus in her local community for School of Our Lorde. School of Our Lorde is an effort to bring people together to study the poetics, pedagogy, politics and publishing of feminist warrior poet Audre Lorde. You can join an existing campus, participate by distance learning or start your own campus! To find out more, visit: http://summerofourlorde.wordpress.com/
Disability Justice Track at the Allied Media Conference
The Allied Media Conference is an annual gathering where artists, media makers and activists come together to talk media strategies for community building. Cripchick is working with other disabled people to create the first ever Disability Justice track--- a space where we people will dissect a disability justice analysis and have time to talk about the way disability shapes our work as cultural activists, media makers and activists. You can find out more at http://alliedmediaconference.org
Disabled Young People's Collective's first ever Activism, Community, Empowerment Summit
Cripchick is an active member with the Disabled Young People's Collective, a crew of disabled youth working to get free in NC. DYP is organizing a 6 day event in August for disabled youth between the ages 16-24 to come together and learn about disability justice, organizing, and community building. To get an application or find out more, visit http://thedypcollective.org
