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	<description>An Unshamed Claim to Beauty in the Face of Invisibility</description>
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		<title>Poemsong for Liberation: free poetry workshop April 18, 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sins Invalid presents:
Poemsong for Liberation: A Poetry Workshop
Facilitated by Vanessa Huang and Leroy Moore
Sunday, April 18th, 2010, 3 – 6 pm
Brava Theater Center
2781 24th St. at York Street, San Francisco
Cost: Free
Poetry is not a luxury: &#8220;it is through poetry that we give name to those ideas which are – until the poem – nameless and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sinsinvalid.org/blog/poemsong-for-liberation-free-poetry-workshop-april-18-2010</link>
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		<title>Review of Sins Invalid 2009 (reprinted from Edana Conteras&#8217; blog)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On October 3rd, I attended a performance of Sins Invalid at the Brava Theater. I first heard about the show in 2006 from various members of the disabled community. Everyone I discussed this performance with had praised and hailed it for a raw view of sexuality and disability, and I was eager to see what [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sinsinvalid.org/blog/review-of-sins-invalid-2009-reprinted-from-edana-conteras-blog</link>
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		<title>Sins Invalid’s Interview with Terry Rowden</title>
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Terry Rowden


Sins Invalid’s Leroy Moore recently interviewed Terry Rowden, an Assistant Professor of English at the City University of New York, Staten Island. Terry is the author of The Songs of Blind Folk: African American Musicians and the Cultures of Blindness and coeditor of Transnational Cinema: The Film Reader.
Leroy of Sins Invalid: As a Black [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sinsinvalid.org/blog/sins-invalid%e2%80%99s-interview-with-terry-rowden-2</link>
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		<title>Announcing: Another Life All Together by Elaine Beale</title>
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Sins Invalid is please to announce the February 23rd release of the latest novel by Elaine Beale, Sins Invalid friend and Advisory Board member.
Another Life Altogether is a coming-of-age and coming out story set in the 1970s in Elaine’s native England. The novel tells the story of thirteen-year-old Jesse Bennett, an engaging, wry and utterly [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sinsinvalid.org/blog/announcing-another-life-all-together-by-elaine-beal</link>
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		<title>Around and within the interview of Staff Benda Bilili</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Leroy Moore
Watch Leroy Moore’s three-part interview with Staff Benda Bilili.
I like it when things come together!  I can’t ask for anything better.  November 1st, 2009 wrapped my family, disabled musicians, traveling and my forty-second birthday all into one big present to myself!
For two years I’ve been researching disabled street musicians Staff Benda Bilili, who [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sinsinvalid.org/blog/around-and-within-the-interview-of-staff-benda-bilili</link>
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		<title>Why Write the Body?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Elaine Beale

In 1988, when I was twenty-six years old, I was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis, a chronic inflammation of the lower intestine. For several months after diagnosis, I became more and more seriously ill and, at one point, was rushed into hospital in the middle of the night. I remember very vividly lying in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sinsinvalid.org/blog/why-write-the-body</link>
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		<title>Sins Invalid 2009 performers&#8217; &#8220;favorite moments&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Read a few of performers’ “favorite moments” from the show!!
“It feels so full and the way we are held, it is like a total release…being part of sins is like getting fisted by art.”
“…bonding and solidarity between disabled performers whose sexual energy is loud and visible, colorful and beautiful… “
“Antoine limping up the stairs backstage, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sinsinvalid.org/blog/sins-invalid-2009-performers-favorite-moments</link>
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		<title>Sins Invalid: An unashamed look at sex, beauty and disability</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by David Steinberg reprinted from SF Gate


Who is sexy? Who is sexual? Who is sexually desirable? Who is sexually vibrant?
Are the people that society designates &#8220;beautiful&#8221; really sexier or more sexual than the people who get labeled &#8220;plain&#8221;?
What about older people, heavier people? What about people with disabilities? Are these people fully sexual human beings [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sinsinvalid.org/blog/sins-invalid-an-unashamed-look-at-sex-beauty-and-disability</link>
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		<title>Sins Invalid: Don&#8217;t Miss It! (reposted from National Sexuality Resource Center)</title>
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reposted from the National Sexuality Resource Center&#8217;s blog

 by Joy  O&#8217;Donnell

If you happen to be in San Francisco the first weekend in October, do yourself the favor of a lifetime and go and see the Sins Invalid performance at Brava Theater. A quick word of caution though: you need to buy tickets soon as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sinsinvalid.org/blog/sins-invalid-dont-miss-it-reposted-from-national-sexuality-resource-center</link>
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		<title>To Do in October: Sins Invalid 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[reposted from Ask.Com&#8217;s Sexuality Blog
By Cory Silverberg

Imagine entering a room where, for a few hours, everything you know is turned upside down. Not in an alien-planet sort of way – you still recognize the people, the language, the feelings – but in an everything-you-secretly-thought-was-fucked-up-about-the-world-really-is-and-this-is-what-it-would-be-like-if-everyone-admitted-it kind of way. Imagine being surround by a few hundred strangers [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sinsinvalid.org/blog/to-do-in-october-sins-invalid-2009</link>
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