Loving with Three Hearts: Behind the Scenes of the 2020 Sins Invalid Performance

[Image Description: On the right, an image of Lateef McLeod, a Black disabled man, kneeling with this hands curled in his lap, with another Black man behind him holding him up by the arms. Behind them is a projection of rolling blue waves. On the left, the same blue water background, with text that reads “Loving with Three Hearts: Behind the Scenes of the 2020 Sins Invalid Performance.”

How do eight crip artists collectively create a performance about the effects of climate chaos on their lives during an uncontrolled global pandemic, unprecedented wildfires, and the same old racist, homophobic, transphobic, ableism? That’s the story of Loving With Three Hearts, a behind-the-scenes look at what it took to make We Love Like Barnacles: Crip Lives & Climate Chaos. 

Learn how Sins Invalid brought together performers in four cities to sound a warning that nobody should miss, all while navigating a virus that was allowed to spread because of ableist hate. Each interview illuminates disabled BIPOC life during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, reminds us what we’re fighting for, and gives us new reasons to hope.

Stream Loving with Three Hearts with the Longmore Institute and the Sins crew this October at Superfest!