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Virtual Release of Stages of Grief: Crip Hearts on Fire

In the center of the image, a rectangular white frame contains a glowing yellow sunburst with warm pink and coral tones at the edges. This radiance is surrounded by swirling, abstract flames and wave-like patterns in green, blue, red, and orange. At the top of the image is the Sins Invalid logo, a black rectangle with the words “Sins Invalid” in white letters. Below it, black text of varying sizes reads: “Presents: Stages of Grief: Crip Hearts on Fire.” Further down, black text reads: “Free Streaming, Nov 12–19, 2025” and “Artist Q&A, Nov 15.” At the very bottom, two sentences in smaller black text, one right below the other read: “Streaming, Q&A and Sign-up available in ASL, English and Spanish” and “To sign up visit www.sinsinvalid.org or link in IG bio.”

Image Description: In the center of the image, a rectangular white frame contains a glowing yellow sunburst with warm pink and coral tones at the edges. This radiance is surrounded by swirling, abstract flames and wave-like patterns in green, blue, red, and orange. At the top of the image is the Sins Invalid logo, a black rectangle with the words “Sins Invalid” in white letters. Below it, black text of varying sizes reads: “Presents: Stages of Grief: Crip Hearts on Fire.” Further down, black text reads: “Free Streaming, Nov 12–19, 2025” and “Artist Q&A, Nov 15.” At the very bottom, two sentences in smaller black text, one right below the other read: “Streaming, Q&A and Sign-up available in ASL, English and Spanish” and “To sign up visit www.sinsinvalid.org or link in IG bio.” View image description in ASL.

We are honored to invite you to the virtual release of Stages of Grief: Crip Hearts on Fire, Sins Invalid’s 2024 live performance, marking 18 years of crip brilliance on stage.

Through scenes of crip rage, joy, and grief, our performers offer testimony to survival, love, and collective power in a world on fire. From climate chaos to systemic ableism, from our sacred grief to our revolutionary visions of liberation, this performance is both an offering and a call to action.

The performance features pieces by: Tré Vasquez, María Palacios, Nomy Lamm, Germán Parodi, Lateef McLeod and Antoine Hunter and Urban Jazz Dance Company.

This release is dedicated to the memory of our beloved Patty Berne, co-founder of Sins Invalid, visionary artist, and architect of Disability Justice, whose brilliance continues to guide us towards access, interdependence, and collective liberation.

To access both streaming and Q&A, please register through the links in our website and Instagram bio.

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An Unshamed Claim to Beauty in the Face of Invisibility.

Sins Invalid is committed to social and economic justice for all people with disabilities.

Our stories lay a foundation for a collective claim of liberation, beauty, and human rights.

Disability Justice

Movement Building

Performance

Image Description: A Latina woman with long dark hair sits in a wheelchair on a bright red rug against a black background. Her head is lifted to her left, her shoulder raised so it almost touches her lips. She wears a brown top with silver sequins down the front, black bra straps showing, and brown leather boots with buckles on them, her left leg crossed over her right knee. One hand is between her legs, the other hand extended down with fingers spread by her knee.

Image Description: A Black person with short dreads wearing a white one-piece unitard leans to the left with legs spread, their back to the camera. They hold a white scarf outstretched in their left hand. Watery blue and white images are projected onto the scarf and their body.

Image Description: : A fat white Jewish femme wears a tight green bejeweled bodice and a turquoise mermaid tail, with ribbons cascading from their hair and wrists, in front of a watery blue background.

Image Description: A Latina woman with long dark hair sits in a wheelchair on a bright red rug against a black background. Her head is lifted to her left, her shoulder raised so it almost touches her lips. She wears a brown top with silver sequins down the front, black bra straps showing, and brown leather boots with buckles on them, her left leg crossed over her right knee. One hand is between her legs, the other hand extended down with fingers spread by her knee.
A Black person with short dreads wearing

Image Description: A Black person with short dreads wearing a white one-piece unitard leans to the left with legs spread, their back to the camera. They hold a white scarf outstretched in their left hand. Watery blue and white images are projected onto the scarf and their body.

Image Description: : A fat white Jewish femme wears a tight green bejeweled bodice and a turquoise mermaid tail, with ribbons cascading from their hair and wrists, in front of a watery blue background.