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Sins on the world stage: Toronto, Kickstarter, and Mixed-Ability Organizing

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

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Report Back on our First International Event: Toronto, Sins Invalid and Disability Justice

Our Toronto tour was out of this world!

In the classroom: the disability justice workshop brought in over 60 participants with a diverse mix of...

On stage for a sold-out show: Sins's first performance outside the country attracted 300 attendees (sadly, with 100 turned away at the door). In the words of one audience member:

"Sins presented a reclaiming, revaluing and liberation of our whole selves that went beyond anything I have seen before...

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Roll the Credits:

Thank You to our Kickstarter Backers!

Our deepest gratitude, crip love and solidarity to our Kickstarter campaign backers.

Together we raised beyond our $15,000 goal, transforming our dream into reality that this film will be viewed as widely as possible-sharing the truth that beauty always recognizes itself.

LEAD DONORS - THE VISIONARIES WHO LED THE WAY:

Anonymous
The Brown Boi Project
The Fairy Godfathers Fund of the Horizons Foundation
Abby Lubowe
Alana Theriault
Charis Thompson
Cory Silverberg
Elaine Beale
Janelle White
Julie Prough
Katharine Mechem
Louise Monsour
Manish Vaidya
Max Airborne
William Espey
Alexis Shotwell
Holly Hessinger
Lawrence Carter-Long
Virginia Barnhart

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Theory in the Flesh:
Mixed-Ability Organizing, Access Needs,
and Internalized Ableism

Just a few weeks ago at Sins Invalid we had our second mixed-ability conversation. Our first mixed-ability dialogue was about five to six months ago in the fall...

It might be an obvious claim to say that Sins Invalid, as an organization, takes disability justice seriously. What may not be so obvious is the deliberate labor that must be built in to the praxis of such theoretical frameworks...

Clustered together in our meeting space at Sins, Patty makes this crucial point: "In capitalism, the fact that you have a 'need' is like an overall net drain, as though we're somehow not going to...

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