Introducing the
Sins Invalid Team








Maria’s work includes various genres of art ranging from written collections of rebellious poetic storytelling, to passionate spoken word pieces and sarcastic illustrations of disability themed cartoons aimed at calling out ableism.
Maria is one of the Capitol Crawlers from the iconic march of 1990 that passed the ADA. Her advocacy, since then, has taken many forms eventually morphing into her current voice –a voice unafraid of sharing the survival stories of the disabled people the world wants to forget. She has been a Sins performer since 2007.
In the artistic world, Maria is known as the Goddess on Wheels.


Image Description: A smiling brown-skinned boi with short black and gray hair and a beard smiles as light bounces off the Rio Grande behind them. They’re wearing a grey sweatshirt that says “St. Olaf.”
Lazarus Letcher (they/them) is a Ph.D. candidate in American Studies at the University of New Mexico on Tiwa Pueblo land, focusing on linking homophobia and transphobia to white supremacy culture and examining QTBIPOC art as resistance. Laz has written for Autostraddle, and the occasional dry academic journal. They play viola in the leftist folk band Eileen & the In-Betweens and for art installations/durational performances with the group Stages of Tectonic Blackness.

R Merriman-Goldring
Development Director
✨Community Partners✨

Dancers Group

San Francisco Women Against Rape

Health Justice Commons

Catalyst Project

Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project

Forward Together
✨Sins Invalid Funders✨

The Hewlett Foundation

The Ford Foundation

Horizons Foundation

Zellerbach Family Foundation

Blue Heart – Social Good Fund

Kindle Project

General Service Foundation

National Arts & Disability Center

Urgent Action Fund

California Arts Council

Akonadi Foundation
