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Our Mission

Sins Invalid is a disability justice-based movement building and performance project that celebrates disabled people, centering and led by disabled Black, Indigenous, and people of the global majority, and queer, trans, and nonbinary disabled people.
Sins Invalid’s work explores themes of disabled embodiment and the world around us, developing provocative work where paradigms of “normal” and “disabled” are challenged, offering instead a vision of beauty and justice inclusive of all bodies and communities.

OUR VISION

Sins Invalid recognizes that we will be liberated as whole beings—as disabled, as queer, as Black, as Brown, as trans/nonbinary, as exactly who and how we are. We know we are far greater whole than divided. We recognize that our allies emerge from many communities and that demographic identity alone does not determine one’s commitment to liberation.

Sins Invalid is committed to social and economic justice for all people with disabilities – in lockdowns, in shelters, on the streets, mobility impaired, sensory minority, environmentally injured, psychiatric survivors – moving beyond individual legal rights to collective human rights.

Our stories, embedded in analysis, offer paths from identity politics to unity amongst all oppressed people, laying a foundation for a collective claim of liberation and beauty.

Plain Language Mission:

Sins invalid is a disability justice project. We build movements and make performances.

We celebrate disabled people. We are led by disabled people who are Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. We are led by queer, trans, and nonbinary disabled people. 

Sins Invalid’s work is about disabled people and our bodies. Sins Invalid explores how disabled people live in the world. 

We challenge society’s ideas about what “normal” means. We challenge what “disabled” means. Sins Invalid believes that all bodies and communities are beautiful. 

Sins Invalid believes that everyone deserves to be seen and included.

Plain Language Vision:

Sins Invalid believes we need to be our whole selves in order to get free. We are disabled, we are queer, we are Black, we are Brown, we are trans/nonbinary. Our power comes from who we are and how we are. All kinds of people can be our allies. All of us can be committed to each other’s freedom.

Sins Invalid wants all disabled people to have our basic needs met and to be treated fairly. We deserve human rights no matter what – even if we are locked up, unhoused, can’t walk, can’t see or hear, get sick a lot, or are told we’re crazy. We fight together to get everyone’s needs met.

Our personal stories help us connect to a bigger community. Community helps us recognize that we are beautiful and deserve to be free.