Top Qs
Timeline
Chat
Perspective
Patricia Berne
American disability rights activist From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Remove ads
Patricia Berne (January 21, 1967 – May 29, 2025) was an American writer, performance artist, film director, and disability rights organizer. Berne was a pioneering leader in the disability justice movement,[1][2][3][4] and was the co-founder of Sins Invalid, a disability justice-based performance project that incubates performers with disabilities, centering people of color and LGBTQ/gender-variant people.[5][6]
 | This article reads like a press release or a news article and may be largely based on routine coverage. (January 2021) |
Remove ads
Career
Berne was the Executive Director and Artistic Director of Sins Invalid and a Fellow of the Ford Foundation's Disability Futures Forum.[5][7] Their work spanned 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.[5][7]
Berne was a prolific contributor to the public discourse about disability justice.
Remove ads
References
External links
Wikiwand - on
Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.
Remove ads