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	<description>An Unshamed Claim to Beauty in the Face of Invisibility</description>
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		<title>Sins Invalid at Reap What You Sow Conference in Raleigh, NC</title>
		<description><![CDATA[﻿SINS INVALID Performance
Reap What You Sow: Harvesting Support Systems
July 29 &#8211; 31, 2010
Raleigh, North Carolina
The  National Youth Leadership Network (NYLN) is holding an exciting event!   It is called &#8220;Reap What You Sow: Harvesting Support Systems.&#8221;  It is a  conference that looks at how to support young people in finding power  and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sinsinvalid.org/blog/sins-invalid-at-reap-what-you-sow-conference-in-raleigh-nc</link>
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		<title>Workshop: Embodied Telling: Sharing Story through Performance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Embodied Telling: Sharing Story through Performance
August 15th
3 &#8211; 6 pm
Counterpulse
1310 Mission Street (north side of Mission Street) in San Francisco
http://counterpulse.org/
Cost:    Free
Please send us your name, phone number to register at info@sinsinvalid.org
Are  you a writer who writes for the page who is trying to figure out how to  bring your work to the stage? [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sinsinvalid.org/blog/workshop-embodied-telling-sharing-story-through-performance</link>
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		<title>blue boots by meg torwl</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Audio of blue boots by Meg Torwl from QUIRKE event, recording by Diane Hollands.
blue boots 
ever since I got these
solid, baby blue boots
straight women
and male bicycle couriers
of undetermined persuasion
now talk to me in elevators
so attired
with cornflower blue
soft woolen wrap
strangers feel compelled to caress
they hold an edge
in their hand in wonder
looking at me
go on I say
you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sinsinvalid.org/blog/blue-boots-by-meg-torwl</link>
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		<title>in – valid, a poem by Meg Torwl</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ 
Audio of in-valid by Meg Torwl, from a recording for RNZ, music by Eric Biddington
in – valid
 pull your
own weight
stand alone
stand on
your own
two feet
four feet
six legs
six feet under
dig your toes in
keep a lid on it
under your hat
sit on it
sit tight
don’t just sit there
rise above it
get up
stand up for your rights
relax
take it easy
footloose
one foot in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sinsinvalid.org/blog/in-%e2%80%93-valid-a-poem-by-meg-torwl</link>
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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>
		<description><![CDATA[


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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