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.[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.