Radicalizing the Message: Performance, Disability & the Revolutionary Body

Presenters: Patty Berne, Leroy Franklin Moore Jr. & Truc Nguyen, Sins Invalid
TRACK: The Art & Practice of Disability Justice
In this session Sins Invalid, a performance project that incubates and celebrates artists with disabilities, will share how to utilize cultural work such as performance art and other media to forward Disability Justice work on a local, national and international level.   The goal of the session is to begin to develop a shared framework of Disability Justice and create a space for creative thinking using cultural work to promote Disability Justice. We will differentiate the medical versus social model of disability anchors in the mainstream media and social justice organizing. Through small group work and video presentation we will critically look at how to use cultural work to reshape the mainstream popular image of people with disability from a charity model where others define us to us controlling the spotlight, microphone, camera and the pen.