Patricia Berne

{{Short description|American activist}}

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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.{{Cite web|title=Our Team|url=https://www.sinsinvalid.org/staff|access-date=2020-12-05|website=Sins Invalid|language=en-US}}{{Cite journal|last=Kopit|first=Alison|date=2019-07-06|title=Defiant Memory as Disability Justice: An Interview with Patty Berne of Sins Invalid|url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/728854|journal=American Quarterly|language=en|volume=71|issue=2|pages=415–423|doi=10.1353/aq.2019.0036|s2cid=198598506|issn=1080-6490}} They are a founder member of the disability justice movement.{{Cite book|last=Piepzna-Samarasinha, Leah Lakshmi, 1975-|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1066114954|title=Care work : dreaming disability justice|date=30 October 2018 |isbn=978-1-55152-739-0|location=Vancouver|oclc=1066114954}}{{Cite web|title=Disability Justice Primer|url=https://www.sinsinvalid.org/disability-justice-primer|access-date=2020-12-05|website=Sins Invalid|language=en-US}}{{Cite book|last1=Heller|first1=Tamar|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MgZ6DwAAQBAJ&q=Berne&pg=PA196|title=Disability in American Life: An Encyclopedia of Concepts, Policies, and Controversies [2 volumes]|last2=Harris|first2=Sarah Parker|last3=Gill|first3=Carol|last4=Gould|first4=Robert|date=2018-12-31|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=978-1-4408-3423-3|language=en}}{{Cite book|last1=Ray|first1=Sarah Jaquette|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jZ0nDwAAQBAJ&q=patricia+berne+disability&pg=PA404|title=Disability Studies and the Environmental Humanities: Toward an Eco-Crip Theory|last2=Sibara|first2=Jay|date=2017-06-01|publisher=U of Nebraska Press|isbn=978-0-8032-7845-5|language=en}}