Centering and Practicing Disability Justice

Centering and Practicing Disability Justice

Part of the Sins School of Pop Ed/Escuela Sins de Edu Popular collection

An exploration of the praxis of Disability Justice, centering disabled BIPOC / indigenous / queer / non-binary / trans people’s leadership.

About this disability events

Facilitated by Patricia Berne

Hosted by Sins Invalid

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This interactive handicap events workshop invites participants into a deep dive to understand the praxis of Disability Justice. We will discuss centering disabled BIPOC / indigenous / queer / non-binary / trans people’s leadership; challenging white supremacy in our organizations and movements; and the political imperative of bodily autonomy and trans liberation. Holding collective access as a core principle and practice of Disability Justice, we will share ways to make our movement building work center mixed ability organizing, cross movement organizing and anti-capitalist cultural norms and practices. Participants will leave this workshop with concrete action items about how to bring Disability Justice praxis into their work while centering the needs of all body-minds.

Content appropriate for people involved in movement building organizations and individuals already experienced with Disability Justice frameworks and practices.

This workshop is open to all participants, however, we strongly recommend that participants attend Asserting the Revolutionary Body: Anti-Ableism and the Groundwork for Disability Justice prior to this event..

We prioritize the participation of disabled, Deaf, Black, brown and Indigenous, queer, trans, and non-binary folks.

The workshop will be facilitated in English, with interpretation between English, Spanish, and ASL, and English and Spanish CART.

Trainer Bio: Patty Berne is the Co-Founder, Executive and Artistic Director of Sins Invalid*. Their graduate training in clinical psychology focused on trauma and healing for survivors of interpersonal and state violence. Berne’s professional background includes community organizing within the Haitian diaspora, international support for the Guatemalan democratic movement, offering mental health support to survivors of interpersonal violence, and advocating for LGBTQI and disability perspectives within the fields of reproductive genetic technologies. Berne’s experiences as a Japanese-Haitian queer disabled woman provide grounding for her work creating “liberated zones” for marginalized people. They are widely recognized for their work establishing the framework and praxis of Disability Justice.

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